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I will say this is probably her best series as far as quality of writing, development of plot, and characterization, one can clearly see that she has improved as a writer. That being said I wasn’t totally sold after the first book but it was generally enjoyable enough. This series follows a small community of Manix (which as far as I can tell is a supernatural group she makes up) which are sort of like lycanthropes in that they can change form but also they are born into the community and not made and are ABO but have basically warred and fought themselves into too small of a population and all of the female omegas are gone. There is like a bunch of weird complexity that she builds into how they all reproduce but basically it’s less easy without female omegas. The first series involves finding a female omega who doesn’t realize that she is part Manix and this of course shakes up their stodgy hidden community with kind of patriarchal leadership. I will say that this series of all the others really develops the broader world in which it is set and the political intrigue pretty well.

At the time of reading there were only 3 books in this series out but she has since come out with a 4th which I will probably go back and read it. This follows Raine a girl who wakes up in a ditch after hitchhiking and wanders into a small town called Dark River only to find out she has been turned into a vampire and this is a town of vampires who have agreed to live peacefully and not drink from humans or kill them (they get their blood from a blood bank). Raine being turned is essentially a murder in their eyes and so the sherif of the town begins to investigate. The first book mostly follows this issue but then the next two books open up into the greater supernatural world and overarching plot. The characters from this series appear in the final series which I read. This series really worked for me, the first two were a little too much power, angles and demons and all that, vampires feel more grounded somehow, idk man. 

This follows a woman who appears in the pervious series and members of a motorcycle club who are also the four horsemen of the apocalypse. This really marks the conclusion of the overarching plot that starts in the second book of the redeemable series and does wrap it up nicely. Better writing, better characters, but ultimately an extension of the first 3 books.