Lila Crain’s
parents are getting divorced and to make matters worse, her mother is making
her move to her old town called Shade. Lila is forced to go to Shade High where
any outsider is practically shunned, but after a few days, the most popular
group in the school approaches her, wanting to be friends. Suspicious at their sudden
change of heart, Lila is reluctant to join their group and even more so when
Cresida, once the leader of said group, tells her to stay away from them. Lila
cannot help but be drawn to the group of girls and boy who seem so off limits,
especially, Sky who also happens to be Sam, the ringleaders, boyfriend. Lila
starts to piece together the mystery of this group and what she will find will
be nothing like she expected. The wolves are out in the town of Shade and Lila
might just be the reason why.
This plot
had a lot of potential. However, the writing was too bland for a story like
this. A paranormal fiction book demands action and this book severely lacked in
that area. When I began the story, I could tell that the author liked to
describe everything even the tiniest little event or detail, and that is okay,
to a point. However, this book had too many descriptive passages and not enough
action and dialogue. The book seemed to flat line in the area of action, and adventure.
I would describe this book as monotone in the way that there was never a rise
and fall in the book. There was never really a climactic event, as all books
should have. Even though I kept reading, I felt so bored that I had to skip
paragraphs of description and fluff, just to get to the dialogue and action.
Now, the book did pick up in pace and action in the end, but it was a little
too late for that. Since the book picked up in the end, I tried reading the
second book in the series and I could not even get past the very beginning. I
had a lot of hope for this book, but it did not even come close to my
expectations. Unfortunately, I would have to give this book one out of five
stars.
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