Review: A very pleasant surprise!!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 27, 2012
Whenever you download one of Kindle's 99-cent specials, you have no real idea what you're going to get. Sometimes, even a buck seems to much to pay. That is most definitely not the case with Sarra Cannon's _Beautiful Demons_. Is this a polished novel (novella length, actually) that might have come from major publisher? Of course not. What it is though, is an extremely promising and largely satisfying first effort which is a vast improvement over most YA paranormal stories in that same 99-cent niche. The plotting is pretty tight and convincing, and Harper is a well-written protagonist who is easy to relate to and whom we definitely come to care about. And, though I found it ridiculously easy to figure out who the killer was in this story, there are still more than enough unanswered questions as a motivation to continue with the series. Frankly, I don't like to read the books of a series one immediately after the other, so it will be a while before I get around to the second book in this series, but, I most definitely will do so at some point. Kudos to Mrs. Cannon as well for the absence of those grammatical and syntactical errors that make many of these novels virtually unreadable. Perfect? Probably not, but still, very well done!