I was skeptical about this one, as I'm not usually into paranormal books or mystery books much less paranormal mystery books. But this one had a good balance. I could kind of see where the story was going -- at certain points I just wanted to take the main by the shoulders and shake her and be like, "Seriously you need to figure this out already," -- but that didn't keep me from being pretty creeped out or surprised at certain points. The character development was not ignored and I thought the teenaged characters were pretty realistically depicted. Looking forward to getting my hands on the next in the series.