1st Review: 
 Protagonist: Loki Blackstar is a kid with no past. The earliest thing he remembers is the past year. He's told he has one year to kill ninety-nine vampires in order to restore his place in Heaven and his status as a Half-Angel Dreamhunter. So at first, I wasn't sure what I thought of Loki. I mean he's a fairly likable character, but his insistence on getting back to Heaven, a place he has never seen and only heard of felt a bit off. However, as the book progresses his view of the world is changed and he begins to focus on who his future rather than his past. 
 Romance: So I'm very on the fence about how I feel about the romance. It starts off with a slow burn, I guess, but it's more like Loki's interest is piqued by Snow White, and then in just a few hours they fall in love. Now these few hours are very intense and part of me can really see them believing they've fallen for each other, but no matter how intense the time is I don't truly believe they could actually fall in love in just a few hours. Since this is a fairy-tale story I figured I wouldn't let it bother me and just bask is a quick romance. 
 World-Building: So like I said this is a fairy-tale book, but for about half the book I wasn't getting the fairy-tale vibe I was hoping for. Maybe the prequel novellas kind of ruined it for me. I mean going into it I knew it wasn't going to take place in a fairy-tale-esque medieval world and that it would take place in a more modern day setting, but still, I think I expected a more fantasy or urban fantasy touch to it that wasn't fulfilled with vampires, witches, and werewolves. However, once we reach the second half, there's a lot of fairy tale wonder to explore. I won't say much but it sort of makes up for the lack of a magical fairy-tale presence in the beginning. It's about time to hear the real Snow White tale. P.S. Sorry for the awkward transition but I wasn't sure where to put this or how to get there, but there is a plot hole of sort, well actually there are a few things that didn't make sense and not in a "We'll find out later" way, but this specifically didn't make sense. We meet Loki in the second prequel Ashes to Ashes, Cinder to Cinder and well let's just say something don't really add up. 
 Writing: So, my biggest bone to pick with this book is the writing. This is a Young Adult novel, however, it has this Middle-Grade cheesy quality to it that really bothered me, I mean it was so cheesy that even if this was a Middle-Grade novel I would have gotten annoyed with it. I felt like the author was trying to tone down the book where he should have embraced it. I mean in certain scenes where things are getting dark there's usually some sort of moment of humor or levity that completely undercuts the darkness of this tale. I mean embrace the darkness especially when writing a dark fairy tale. Sometimes the writing felt a bit awkward too like things just didn't click like they should have. Now the grammatical errors, incorrect capitalizations, and formatting errors I can deal with, but I decided to mention it for those who can't. 
 Predictability: I wouldn't say this book is overly predictable, mainly because like I said for about the first half of this book not all that much happened. However, after this book takes off there's a lot more that happens and a lot of twists. Some things that surprised me just sort of happened.without explanation and no real build up to it, just sort of Deus Ex Machina style. When things are foreshadowed and make sense though things are really cool. There were a few twists that I was able to catch onto, but the biggest twists, the things that I could never quite predict didn't happen until the very end. 
 Ending: So when the final climax started I didn't know what to expect. It didn't go down like I thought it would, but the scene was actually rather badass, though there was that weird level of humor to the darkness that annoyed me. When things started to cool down there were quite a few twists, these are game-changing, crazy, and revealing twists. Everything culminates in a rather heart-shattering cliffhanger. 
 Rating: 
 So this book was a bit of a disappointment, or rather a large portion of it was. I was hoping for something more fantastical and fairy-tale-esque, and while the story picked up toward the end and became very compelling, with the weird writing style and the damage already done, there was still a lot that just really disappointed me. The silver lining though is that the next book holds a lot of promise. 
 2nd Review: 
 So this review will be a bit more freeform since I mostly agree with my thoughts after I first read this book. I will say thought that the plot and world-building of this book are much better the second time around, I think my expectations were more in check and I was able to enjoy the ride. That being said though, the writing felt so much more unpolished than the first time. The author is the king of telling instead of showing, the characters could have been fleshed out so much more than they were, there were too many Deus Ex Machina moments that completely undercut the protagonist's journey, there were far too many info-dumps that were way too easy to get out of certain characters. I mean, I felt like Loki was just gliding through this story and not doing anything about it, which I guess is part of his character development, yet we don't even see him make the choice to do next to nothing, that choice is completely out of his hands. There was next to no foreshadowing at all in this book, sure there was some here and there, but for much less important reveals. Having big concepts just sort of pop up in the middle to the end of a book without any preamble really make the book feel disorganized and chaotic. The romance moved way too fast and I could easily see that whole section divided up across the book to really build out the characters' attraction to each other. That's not even mentioning that the author seems to have no idea who his audience is. Half the time he's writing for a Middle-Grade audience and the other half he's writing for a Young Adult audience and it seriously drags down the story. The thing is though, that the plot is amazing, it's fantastic eve, but it's hidden behind awful writing, and what makes it even worse is that I've read better writing than this from the author, I know he has it in him to do better, but it felt like he didn't have anyone who could be truly critical of his writing look over this before it was published.