Review: Enjoyable
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2013
This book was an interesting start to this series. We have your two main characters, Astrid and Max. Astrid was very annoying. She is supposed to be sixteen and thinks she all worldly because she listen no NPR and "cares" about what is going on in the world. Then she gets mad at other kids because they like to read cosmopolitan and not about more series stuff. I can understand about wanting to be informed about the world you live in and everything but man she just thought that she was sooo smart and cool and was very judgmental about what the other kids thought if it didn't mesh with what she thought they should care about. I just wanted to slap her. She wouldn't call one of the characters in the book by the name he wanted to be called by just because she thought it was stupid. Hell if it made the other kid happy why should she care?! It wasn't her name. Anyway she didn't show any personal growth throughout this book. Then there is Max. He was ok. Nothing special about him. My favorite character in the book was Azrael aka Jon. He was soo cute and all about vampires and being one. He was obsessed with it but that's what was endearing about him. Even though everyone else made fun of him and it hurt his feelings and what not he still believed with all his heart and soul that vampires were real and that he was one of them.The plot of the this story was very slow coming. It took forever to get to the good stuff and then it was over. The mystery of what was going on was good though. It made me want to keep reading to see if the kids did have powers or if they were just crazy. I wish there was a little more back story as to what happened to each kid and how they got sent to the mental facility but alas that didn't happen. The just touched on it briefly. But despite all of these things I really did enjoy the book and can't wait to find out what happens in book 2.