The main character in this book is Sahara, who has been in several accidents and always survived. Other people, including her parents and her brother have died. She believes it is bad luck sitting in a car or train with her. She is in a relationship with Nigel, who turns out to be abusive. Sahara leaves him and hides out in another town. After a few weeks he finds her and threatens to hurt her again. Sahara get's really angry and all of a sudden she has abilities she never new existed. From that day on her life changes completely. She learns about a world where different (not human) creatures exist. One of them is Romero who is her Guardian. He is there to protect her and has been protecting her family since the 1700s. Romero was captured by Barak and can only communicate with Sahara though her thoughts. When I read the synopsis of this book I though it sounded really good and I was excited to start reading it. The storyline started fast paced and as long as I learned more about Sahara, her relationships to her grandmother and her boyfriend I really felt contempt reading it. But the further the storyline progressed the slower it got in my opinion. It felt really flat to me and I was always hoping to find the arch to more suspense when I turned the next page. Unfortunately, there never was one. Furthermore, I felt that there were too many characters involved. Some were not properly introduced and I sometimes was confused as to who they were. I think there could have been done much more with the story if the focus had been on fewer characters and their backstories. As it was most of the characters weren't given the depths I was hoping for.
Note: I received an ARC from Netgalley. This story is about three teenagers. Alexis, called Allie, Rob and Juliette. They all are suffering from XP and therefore can only eave the house at night. Juliette is a former athlete and now discovered Parcour. So the three of them use the nights to practice and scout places. At one night they see a man in an apartment who tries to revive a woman. They woman already looks really pale and they believe she is dead. Allie is the only one who is wondering about this and she asks questions. Which makes her a target. Little does she know at this point that one of her best friends knows the killer quite well.The book started rather slow in my opinion I was still drawn into it because I have a thing for books which deal with medical stuff. So this was my cup of tea. At about 40% in it started to pick up the pace and the storyline got a little scarier, maybe even dark and creepy. There were a lot of twists and turns which made the book more confusing to me than to build tension. I really enjoyed the last 20% which is why I gave the book 4 stars. I'm not a fan of the ending though. A little more closure would have been nice.
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