Review: Decent Story but Not Much To It
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2012
Kat has been a vampire now for six month, because of the genetic experimentations of Edison group she doesn't know if she'll continue to age or not.  She doesn't really know anything about what will happen to her now.  She is on her way to a vampire meeting in New York with Marguerite when she is run off the road and kidnapped by bounty hunters planning to return her to Edison Group.  Once there she meets Chad and Neil who are supposedly kids that were also part of the vampire experiment.  But are Chad and Neil all that they seem or are they just as dangerous as her captors?This was definitely a better story than Kat was, again told in a first person narrative from Kat's point of view, it offered a much better story arc than the first story.  While the story did include some background thoughts from Kat it was mostly an action packed story about a kidnapping that in my opinion included a much fuller story arc than Kat's first story.  The plot was interesting and at points slightly unexpected, but again I don't really see how this enhances the Darkest Powers series unless we'll see Kat in future full length works which would be nice.  Personally I'd love to see a full length first person narrative with alternative view points between Kat, Chloe, Maya and maybe some of the other major series characters like Derek, Daniel and Rafe.  Not sure if I'll ever get my wish of a story like that but I can keep my fingers crossed and hope right?  We gain some emotional insight about how Kat feels about being a vampire and a slightly exciting short story in this novella, but at this point again I don't see how this benefits the series as a whole. The story does offer the beginnings of a teen love story but doesn't offer any follow through for that which is slightly disappointing, but what can be expected of a short story right?Character development for Kat in this novella was much better than the first in my opinion. Probably because Kat offered more of a depth of emotion in this story than she did the first.  I still wouldn't call her a fully developed character, but it's a short story so I don't really expect that.  Marguerite was distinctive in this novel, but she was mostly built through what Kat told us about her rather than actual interaction with her.  Neil and Chad were semi developed and distinctive again not really fully developed.  The remaining characters in the story were just background character not important enough to even have name.Overall it's an interesting story that you might enjoy reading, but it's at this point not really necessary to the Darkest Powers Series as to my knowledge Kat doesn't appear in any works outside of these stories.