A complete hot mess! The storyline and writing was so jumbled and chaotic that it literally gave me a headache to finish this book. Disappointing to say the least.

Melanie can see ghosts which makes her kind of a social outcast at school, but luckily her two best friends love and believe her. As her eighteenth birthday draws nearer, she starts to see things that she isn't supposed to and it all seems connected to the X mark she got when she was a child. Enter Killian, her stalker/protector, the Grim Reaper tasked to protect her from the threats on her life.

Gaaaaaaahhh i don't really know how i feel about this book...


I didn't really like the MC, at first i thought she was okayish. But then she got really boring and quite dumb. I guess i get that sometimes we like a damsel in distress and then the hot male lead swoops in and saves her but too much is too much!!! She was in CONSTANT need of saving and she kept putting everyone in danger. It was like she couldn't even think for herself, she was perfectly content with being pushed around because she knew there would always be people to save her.

Killian was drool worthy for sure, As soon as he showed up, i was like Heck Yeah!!!! I found his protective side really alluring and he was by far the most intriguing character in the book!!! I can't spoil but i did really get swept up in the sub plot around his character. There is a kind of love triangle but i thought that the two male leads were the best characters in the book! So the two stars go to them!

I wasn't really swept up in the plot in the beginning. The book started out with a nice flow and it got interesting but then the middle was a bit dull and then it picked up in the last chapters for the climax! I did really like those last chapters and that's what earns this book a third star!

I still don't get the whole "vessel" thingy. We find out at the beginning that the MC is a vessel and that demons want her but we don't know what a vessel is or does. I think the plot could have gone a lot better!!! All we know is that Melanie is special but most of the book was focused on all the characters wanting to sleep with someone! So the story kind of followed that line of thought and we totally left behind the plot at the beginning. I know this is a series and we'll probably find out more of what Melanie actually is later on but this was too much of a plot deviation for me.

I was kind of put off with the huge amount of grammatical errors! I don't mind a few, but when it's so prominent, it really gets on my nerves, It breaks the flow of the reading and i found myself spending more time correcting the sentences in my head then actually keeping up with the story.

Not really for me so i don't think i'll be continuing this series...Or maybe i will because the last part really put a twist on things...but for anyone who wants to give this a try i think it's still on Netgalley! Maybe some of you guys would enjoy it more than i did :)

3.5 stars

Wow, this book. I was intrigued when I read the description. That's what made me want to read it. That, and the title.

The main character in this book is Melanie, a young girl that happens to be a very important pawn in a supernatural world. She is supposed to be a very powerful character,but she doesn't have any power herself.
Melanie was kind of a weak main character. She lets others make decisions for her and everyone kind of flings her around, doing what they want with her. She has potential though. At times you can see that she has an inner strength, a backbone that will keep her alive. But she is too young and inexperienced. I think that with time and some help she can become an strong female character.

The love triangle (if you can call it that) was something the book could have done without. Well, for me ALL love triangles are useless, here it just seemed childish, but it was interesting to see how Melanie reacted to different types of attraction : one born from friendship and that developed over time, and one more mature, more physical.

The other characters were nicely done, with distinctive personalities. Melanie's mother was kind of oblivious and her brother Alex was kind of mean. For no reason. But maybe that's how kids act like these days.

One of the things I didn't like was the fact that Melanie was such a damsel in distress. I understand that she is human and the bad guys are not, but still ! She always needs someone to save her and in the final battle she was a liability.
I really hope that in the next book she will start being badass. I'm sure she could be.

The world building was good and it's always interesting to see a persons version of the Underworld.

I recommend this to fans of the genre. I will definitely read the next one.