Overall, I thought this was a very good book, with only a few minor issues keeping me from giving it a five star rating.
The
overall storyline was a fresh take on the vampire hunter plot by adding
in demons and demon hunters, with the added bonus of extending the Van
Helsing family into the present time! I admit I was a bit thrown off at
first by the combination of the cursed demon huntress who was also
oathbound to the Van Helsing clan, but once I was about halfway through,
it started to gel nicely. Another pleasant plot twist was the
demon-creating drug used to spawn a new generation of terrors in the
asylum. Very creative and surprising!
The action and pacing was
evenly spread throughout, with fantastic action sequences interspersed
with emotional and fluid dialogues. A few slow spots popped up in the
middle of the book, but they weren't enough to bring me out of the
fiction.
The characters were a mixed bag for me, and the only
real reason I dropped one star for the review. As an overall cast, they
worked well together, and balanced each other out without being too over
the top about it. Gabbi was well developed, although her back-story
seemed a bit confusing to me, at least from the flashbacks used to tell
it. But she made a great protagonist, and you felt for her throughout.
The Van Helsing brothers were good characters, but I wished they could
have been a bit more developed, although since this is the start of a
series, that may have been intentional to leave room for subsequent
novels.
Overall, a very good book, and I will definitely be reading the sequels as they come out!
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