Ahoy there mateys! I am a big fan of Kelley Armstrong but this series was hard to get through and if I had not listened to the audiobooks, I might not have finished.  In fact, I thought it was a trilogy and was actually sad when book 3 ended and I knew there had to be one more.  I may have liked this if I were younger but being as I am much older, I had issues.  The primary one is that the main character, Rowan is a special snowflake.  The other big one is she is 12 and sent on missions to hunt with little real training.  She collects an entire menagerie over the course of the book but really only a few animals are used well in the books.  The number of times Rowan yells "Malric, NOOOOOO!!!!!!" was annoying.  And Rowan did not use her brain and often just rushed into danger getting out by luck.  The books got repetitive.  Run into dangerous monster no one has seen in centuries.  Fight.  Rinse.  Repeat.  Did like the focus on science to learn about monsters though I don't know if I can recommend this to anyone who isn't under the age of nine. Arrr!