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Book Series: Venators Book 1

Rating: 4/5

Diversity: not that I can remember

Publication Date: April 10, 2018

Genre: YA Fantasy

Recommended Age: 16+ (love, romance, violence)

Publisher: Brown Books Publishing Group

Pages: 416

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Synopsis: Six years ago, Grey Malteer was attacked by creatures he thought couldn’t possibly exist. They repeated a word, calling him a name he’d never heard before…Venator. Since then, his life has been a hellhole of secrecy—hiding old pain alongside strange new abilities.

Rune Jenkins has an itch, as she calls it, but it’s more than that. It's an anger that builds up like the inside of a boiler whenever she’s around anything remotely supernatural. The pressure is growing steadily worse and she can’t understand why. All she knows is—her control is slipping.

By order of an unknown council Grey and Rune are pulled through a portal in the St. Louis arch, landing them in an alternate dimension where creatures of myth and legend exist. A realm that calls them, Venators.

Made up of centuries old fae, vampires, werewolves, elves and succubi the council’s corrupt nature becomes obvious as they seek to wield the newly returned Venators as weapons. Wedged in an impossible position, Grey and Rune must decide their fate—do they go against the council’s wishes and help the innocents of this unforgiving land, or face the possibility of execution by the council.

Review: I felt like this book was great! The characters were well developed, the pacing was very well done, and the writing was fantastic! The book was also well plotted out in my opinion.

I did feel that the world building could have been a bit better done. It really dragged down the book in the first half and the pacing was a bit off at the first part because of that.

Verdict: A great start to a new series.