1.5 stars. I wanted to enjoy this and I’m more disappointed that I didn’t than disappointed by the book itself. I don’t tend to care about tropes being repetitive so that didn’t bother me. What did bother me was the blatant similarities to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Watchers = Guardians
Hunters = Warriors
Vampires = Shadows (they may be demons but the fangs make it very obvious what they were based on)

If I wanted to read something that’s in the Buffy universe, I’d go read it. Not something that’s very clearly a plot pulled from a tv show.

What also bothered me was that everything seemed to be a part of something bigger. When the book was over it didn’t seem like an ending to a book but a section to the story. It felt as though after dealing with Malthius and the whole prom thing, that there was more to come, like that was just a blip on the radar. I know there are 2 more books but it felt like this was only the first part of one book rather than an entire book.