Krystal Blue by Destiny HawkinsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Crystal Blue thought she was just a normal girl who was a faster kid from Nevada. She abruptly left her foster home to go to college and study Zoology in California where she met lots of strange people including Alveya Tera - a girl in her class. Alveya is beautiful and a Josbryn family (who seem to be powerful in the area). After a car accident that totals Crystals car she ends up staying with the Josbryns and she starts to realise that maybe things like vampires and witches are actually real after all - who knew? Some of her past now makes sense to her as she always thought the beast her mother died protecting her from wasn't real but something from her imagination and no she knows it must have been real after all. Now she has a new mystery - where does her liking of raw meat come from?
I loved the concept of this story and the way it was built up into something quite dramatic towards the end of the book. The main focus of this book was Crystal and how she started a journey of self discovery as well as discovering all the people around her and what they were. In many ways that mirrors real life as you start a journey like this when you leave home to go to college - it's just that her took on a whole new level. It was great that the characters were all very three dimensional and we could understand their thoughts, emotions and motivations. As this is the first book in the series it had to cover a lot of the background and that meant that it might have felt a bit slow at times, but the dramatic ending more than made up for that. Well written, I enjoyed this book and as this is a new author to me I will certainly read another of her books soon.
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