Review: LOVE this book! The characters crack me up!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2014
I LOVE this book!  I read it in one sitting!  I seriously can't believe I have to wait until JANUARY 1 for the next book!  Here are my status updates from reading this book:09/23  27.0% ""It'll be the first time I've slept with two beautiful women without the worry of sneaking out later." HA! SO terrible, and yet SO FUNNY! :D"09/23  31.0% "Oh, that first morning in the tent! CAN'T. STOP. LAUGHING!"09/23  34.0% ""Oh, thank you, master Vampire sensei." I LOVE these characters' personalities!"09/23  39.0% "Ah, the joys of first time babysitters... :) They are hilarious!"09/23  58.0% "OMG! The sex talk! I'm DYING! :)"09/23  88.0% "I just cannot get over how much I am enjoying this book!!!"Despite the fact that the main characters are all Mystic beings, they came to life, right on the page for me.  I could imagine them really walking this earth, in New York, heads taller than your average American.  Even though they don't exist in our reality, Scarlett Dawn does a fantastic job of making the reader believe that they do!There are definitely some terribly sad and serious parts of this novel, as I'm sure will continue throughout the series, but for the most part, these characters CRACK. ME. UP!  They all have great personalities, and watching their friendships with one another bloom is wonderful.  And during the tough stuff, you will want to cry right along with the characters.  Scarlett Dawn wrung the entire spectrum of emotions out of me while I was reading this book.So Lily, Pearl, Jack and Ezra are the next 'generation' of Mystical Kings and Queens.  Lily is a shifter, Pearl is a mage, Jack is an elemental, and Ezra is a vampire.  Of course, Lily isn't JUST a shifter...which is illegal, punishable by death.  But she should have nothing to worry about, right?  And that is only ONE of the problems she might have being a hybrid.  These four future leaders of the Mystics become very intimate friends, and they work very well together.  And there is TONS of sexual tension between Lily and Ezra!  There were many times where I was just like, "Get it on already!  The fact that you should be in a relationship is obvious to everyone reading this!"  Of course, again, if they were ever to make actual babies, they baby could be killed upon birth.  But even though I kept wanting them to just do it, it really was beautiful to watch their relationship grow from acquaintance, to friendship, to something more throughout the story.Y'all SERIOUSLY need to read this!  I don't know how I'm going to survive until King Cave comes out!  I'll probably have to re-read this a time or two before January 1st to keep myself satiated until I can get my hands on it!