I don't know if I just had too many expectations for this new book / series because it's Chloe Neill. Her Chicagoland Vampires is one of my favorites so when I started reading The Veil I think I was prepared for at least a few similarities. That didn't happen. 
 The Veil takes place in New Orleans seven years after the veil between worlds was ripped open and a war broke out between humans and paranormals. Humans won, for the most part, and the remaining Paras were sent to Devil's Isle. Now anyone showing any signs of magic is taken to Devil's Isle this includes Sensitives (humans with magical abilities). 
 Eight months ago Claire Connolly discovered she can move things with her mind. It's a secret she's been keeping ever since then, even from the people she's closest to. When Claire is attacked on her way home one night, she has to use her magic to save herself. Liam Quinn is a bounty hunter and he saw Claire work her magic. He's not there to turn her in, he's there to help her train her magic. Claire begins to realize that things aren't just good and evil, black and white anymore, and never really were in the first place. 
 The concept of The Veil and this series is very interesting. There were just a few pieces of information that irked me and didn't really sit right. I think it's the fact that I felt like this was a partial post-apocalyptic story. I say partial because the whole of the world (or even the entirety of the US) wasn't effected by the war with Paras. Only places like New Orleans, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi (I believe that's it) were effected in this war. It just nagged at me the whole time I was reading that these people are continuing to live in an area that may or may not have electricity (among other amenities) on any given day, yet it read to me that the rest of the continent didn't suffer this problem. I kept asking myself "why would you stay in that situation?" I suppose I can buy the attachment to ones home and land etc., but then wouldn't you try harder to get these things back to working order despite the presence of magic? There were other things like this that irked me and I don't know if it was because the information was made to be presented in a mysterious way or what, but I know if I was in this situation I would ask questions, I would try to find solutions, or I would just move to somewhere else entirely. 
 I also felt a huge lack of any kind of connection between the characters. I'm trying not to compare this series too much with Neill's Chicagoland series, but here I feel I have to. The Chicagoland series reeled me in right away at the first book. One of the main reasons why was the clear cut, loving relationships between the characters. The Veil lacks that feeling for me for all that we are introduced to Gunnar and Tadji, the two people Claire calls her best friends. In fact, I think a couple of these characters were off page for quite a while and I didn't even really miss them. Even our hero Liam didn't make a huge impact on me. We're clearly told (quite a few times from Claire's point of view) that there's an attraction between them, but this feeling didn't jump off page for me like a certain Sentinel and Master's attraction did. The thing is, I want that chemistry. Even if a couple doesn't officially get together in the first book, I still want to feel what's undeniably there. 
 Despite my grievances with this first book, like I said, the idea is still really interesting to me. There were enough smaller secondary characters that popped up that I loved and I hope will make appearances down the line. I also didn't really have an issue with Claire and Liam's characters overall. They are two people who went through a lot in the war, but they fight for what they believe in and what's right. I felt like all events in The Veil were a starting off point, an introduction, for what's to come next. This is one of those books where I will read to see what happens next before I make any overall judgments of the series. By the end there were a lot of promising developments, I feel very positive about the next book.