I've heard a lot of good things about this book so I figured I would give it a try. Julie Kagawa does a good job creating her own vampire legend where vampires are considered devils who keep humans at "pets" to feed from. Anyone who isn't registered as a "pet" are considered Unregistered and are outsiders who have to fight and steal food in order to survive. 
 This is how Allie starts out. Times are grim and unregistereds have to form in groups in order to keep alive, but even then you can still only rely on yourself. In desparation Allie travels outside of the city walls to look for food. Any territory outside of the walls is dangerous because they are usually inhabited by Rabids, vampires who have no conscience and are nothing more than animals (hance the name rabid). When she finds a huge amount of food, Allie decides to take the rest of her group back in order to retrieve it. They are all attacked and Allie is given a huge decision to make. 
 She either dies or chooses to become a vampire, the thing she hates more than anything else. She decides that no matter what she still wants to live so she chooses vampire. From here Allie learns what it means to be thought a devil and struggles with how others can't see past the fangs to who she really is. 
 Allie's journey is very difficult and she has to struggle a lot to figure out who she wants to be in the vampire society. Does she want to forget her human ways and truly become a monster, or retain her human emotions and become an outcast among vampires? 
 I was a little worried that Allie would be the sole character in this book for long amounts of time. This isn't the case. Many great characters move in and out of Allie's story. Her journey is far from over and I don't know how many books in the series are planned, but I hope that we haven't seen the last of the great characters Kagawa created. 
 I highley recommend this book to anyone looking for a new take on the vampires and the dystopian novels. And I can't wait to read the next in the series. Until Then!