Darkness Becomes Her may be better enjoyed by a younger reader. The interesting combination of the voodoo and Greek mythology and the setting (a New Orleans decimated by hurricanes and abandoned by the US government) has the potential to be quite good but sadly, the story was executed poorly. The characters were seriously undeveloped. The narrator Ari is your textbook Mary Sue. She is a Buffy-esque fighter with special superpowers that no one else has. She is beautiful but of course thinks herself ugly because of her "weird" teal-colored eyes and silver-white hair. There was a lot of action sequences that were boring. I won't be reading the sequel.