Sophie is looking forward to getting out of her dead-end town and studying art at a nearby university. She already has plans to live with her best friend Beth who has found a nice apartment above the local undertaker. But a fox bite changes a lot of her plans.

Beth has always had vivid dreams but now her dreams seem to be turning into premonitions. One of the first guys she meets at the university is Sebastian whose eyes have been haunting her dreams for years. Sebastian and his cousin Connor are both attending the university though they are a few years older than Sophie and her friends.

Sebastian introduces her to a whole new world filled with werewolves, vampires, demons and other paranormals. He tells her that she has been chosen by the goddess Tokala to fulfill an epic destiny. Sophie isn't sure what to believe but she is developing strange new powers of her own.

I liked the worldbuilding in this one where their are different worlds each with different varieties of paranormals. It seems that Earth has become something of a battleground where they are all fighting for power.

I didn't really care for Sophie. I didn't like the way she treated her mother or her best friend. I also couldn't quite buy in to the massive personality change she exhibited in the story. She didn't seem like a very nice person and I wondered why the goddess had chosen her for a great destiny. I also thought that she hooked up with the wrong cousin. Connor showed caring and concern for her while Sebastian went off without a word and just left her behind and confused. He also seemed to be careless of her feelings and seemed to find it easy to dismiss her when he had other things to do.

This book is the beginning of a trilogy and the trilogy is part of a much larger sequence of stories set in the same fictional universe that only loosely resembles the real world. ( )

Interesting storyline

It took a while for this novel to get going. There were excessive descriptions of the sky and the weather and the food and parties and clubs. The idea is intriguing, but the execution could've been better. All the moments when the storyline actually moved forward were quite engaging. There was just too much lag time in between.
Parts of the novel were hard to follow. The writing was a bit jumpy. Things would happen kind of suddenly that were confusing.
I was roped Into the novel by the romantical interest between the main character, Sebastian, and Connor. That was the only thing that kept me reading to the end.

This novel contains moderately graphic make-out scenes and mild language. Not for the LDS reader.
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Well the story was well written, however I had a hard time getting to the end. It kinda dragged in several places to me. The characters were great though. ( )

Well written and fabulous story line. plenty of ups and downs. The characters are hilarious and it has every character you can think of from the home body to the bully to the high school prom queen and so much more. What can you do when you become a beacon to the underworld and didnt even know it? your life is turned upside down and your taking it better than those around you. good read for all ages and plenty of curve balls to keep you reading. ( )