I was fully expecting to be half-buried in a blanket while reading this, while trying to ignore every creaking sound the house makes over the sound of my pounding heart. With that said, while the book didn't exactly render me paralyzed with fear, it had some definite creep factors that had me feeling glad that I wasn't reading it in the dark with no one else around for company. I had no expectations when I picked up the book and started reading; I'd never heard of it before and I didn't go seeking for more information about it. All I knew was what the back of the book said and went by that. So I was actually pretty surprised by how absorbed I was by it. 
 Oddly enough, the little romance that went on between Cas and Anna - while it was a little weird, it didn't exactly invoke images of Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore in my head, so I guess that's a good thing. The story was amazing and after reading this book, I have to say - I would not mind someone turning this book into a movie. But a good movie and not just a story that a director would then turn around and shape into something out of his/her own head - therefore completely rendering the story unrecognizable. If that made sense to anyone else but myself. 
 Okay, I know I need to stop digressing. 
 I finished reading this book last night and to this moment, still don't know quite how to explain how I feel about the book. Let me just say, I don't typically read horror-based books. I love the fluffy romance and the hold-your-breath action packed books with a little bit of thriller (the genre, not the song) on the side. I make a few exceptions and this Kendare Blake book made the cut. While I could have done with the 'love story' element to the book as I believe the main plot of the Cas and Anna's stories did well on their own two feet, I can't deny that this book was an unbelievably entertaining one to read. I think my favorite character is Thomas, though. He isn't talked about too much in the book, but through Ms. Blake's words, he comes off as endearing and utterly adorable. I know that some people aren't terribly happy with a few parts of her book. A friend that read it mentioned that she felt that a lot of the characters (mainly Carmel, Thomas, and Will) were a bit too cliche, by which I had to argue that all these characters are in high school. High school is the overflowing bowl of cliches, period. 
 Either way, this was an excellent book and I am looking forward to the next one. 
 There is a next coming out, right?