Published by HarperTeen
352 pages
Orphaned sixteen-year-old Evie has been working for an international governmental paranormal agency since she was eight and they "rescued" her out of foster care. Her job is to tag paranormals, vamps, hags, werewolves, mermaids and the like. Her skill lies in seeing past the glamour the paranormals project to see what they really are. She lives in Central, the underground headquarters of the IPCA. Evie meets Lend, a paranormal, for whom she finds she has feelings, while also finding out that something out there is killing paranormals.
Evie is a fun, light-hearted character, but very lonely, and a fairy takes advantage of that to use for his own purposes. She also touches on racism, though not in so many words. She's finding out the world she thought she knew is so much more, and what she thought she was doing for humankind's own good might not have been right.
The book had a nice pace to it, a few slow parts in the middle. The ending was a bit anticlimactic, perhaps leaving room to make this a series? There were many characters that I would have liked to know more about.
I would have given this a 3.5, but Evie was just so likeable. It's a pretty clean book, no swearing or gore, a few sweet kissing scenes. A good read.
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