Full review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 It's been three months and I'm still talking about RT Booklover's Convention. While there, I attended a panel on paranormal romance. It had the Ilona Andrews writing team, Kresley Cole, and some other really amazing authors. Chloe Neill was also there and she talked a little bit about her upcoming Devil's Isle series. This is my first book by Neill, but gauging the reactions from the audience when she talked about her Chicagoland Vampire series, it was obvious that she was much loved. And honestly, after this book, I may have to start that series as well. 
 This is an urban fantasy book with some definite hints at a future romance. Maybe a possible love triangle? Or perhaps that was just me reading too much into things. Anyway! Set in New Orleans, paranormal and supernatural creatures are a real thing and they have always existed in a place called the Beyond, separated by the Veil. 
 The cast is diverse and I appreciated that they were real people with real issues and not caricatures. Admittedly though, I found it a little on the large size. Maybe my memory isn't that great or that some names sounded too similar, but it was hard to keep the characters and all of their family relations in order. 
 Truly, I loved the world that Neill has built and the grey area questions posed by the plot - who is the real enemy here? However, the story does suffer from what I'd like to call "first book syndrome," which tends to happen in a lot of paranormal romance and urban fantasy. The author spends a lot of time explaining how the world words and setting things up and, at some points, my eyes glazed over. 
 - Amanda