Review: Scintillating Supernatural Fare
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2012
Paranormal Public (Paranormal Public Series)Protagonist and heroine Charlotte is such a delightful character. I want to say "lovable," but maybe "comprehensible" would be a better word. She certainly has it rough; lost her mom, her stepdad wants to almost literally push her out of their home, she's going to college and will miss her ten-year-old brother terribly; and she's got this little bad habit of breaking china-often-always unintentionally. Even worse, she's afraid to be out after dark because she thinks she's being menaced by inexplicable mist and a huge, red-eyed, black dog. Then a former classmate, a young man a year older than Charlotte, shows up to walk her home; the dog attacks her; and she wakes up in the Infirmary at a different school, known as Paranormal Public University, where all things Paranormal are-well, real: werewolves, vampires, mages, pixies, fallen angels, elementals, and so on. What an enticing story line! And so smoothly-written that you won't even recognize you're turning those pages, you'll be so caught up in the story!Charlotte is happy about being at this new University, and being sought out as a student  there. But not being able to demonstrate any kind of magical or paranormal power at the first dinner meeting is humiliating, and she expects to be rejected after all.  Although she is allowed to stay on for one semester under probationary status, one of the vampire professors and some of the students have already turned against her and strive to make her stay miserable, or preferably, to encourage her to leave Paranormal Public forever (there is no second chance for those who fail). Once she realizes that the massive black dog stalking her at home is a Hellhound, Charlotte is really panicky-nowhere to turn, she doesn't seem to fit here, she refuses to return to her stepdad's household-what else can she do?