Plot 💭:
* Intriguing Twists & Turns
* Engaging
* Predictable Ending

Writing Style ✍️:
* Engaging & Easy to Read 👌

Pace & Pacing  ⏱️:
* Some Starts And Stops Due to One Character

Structure 🏗️:
* Well Organized
* Third Person POV Following Main Character Samantha Harker

Setting 🌏:
* Fictional Universes of Dracula and Sherlock Holmes Combined

Characters 🎭:
* Compelling Main Characters
* Meaningful Main Character Growth
* Easy to Spot Main Villain 

Book Cover 🖼️:
* Eye-catching

Target Audience 🎯:
* Adult

Thoughts 🗣: 
* Book follows Samantha Harker, Royal Society for the Study for Abnormal Phenomena researcher, as she embarks into fieldwork for the first time with mysterious and deadly field agent Helena Moriarty. They are the daughters of the famous heroes and villain respectively 
* Sam is a channel, able to peer into the mind of monsters via visions(black ooze tears upon someone's face, bugs swarming someone's body, etc.). This ability also grants her glimpses into the final moments before a victim is killed. "Channeling a monster" supposedly can corrupt the user but Sam's purity seems to block that consequence
* Johnathan Van Helsing (son of famous vampire hunter) is the childhood friend of Sam and fellow agent. He is also Sam's unwanted shadow. His stalking, intimidation and sabotage doesn't feel necessary to a story with so much going on. Whenever he appeared, it felt like it halted the story 
* The big bad was obvious after one meeting but the murder mystery itself remained gripping. The red herrings had unique, entertaining personalities but the antagonist knowledge left the finale underwhelming 
* Despite the villain knowledge, Sam and Hel's relationship growth was a highlight. Sam's naivete and forthrightness clash with Helena's cool, gruff secrecy created a great dynamic
* Also satisfying: watching Sam grow from naive researcher to proactive worldly field agent
* I still enjoyed the book overall. It is a good female-led action mystery story with fantasy elements

Rating: A-