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This was an interesting way, and unique idea on how to combine vampires, werewolves, faeries, witches, and other supernatural beings in a way that makes sense. However, the uniqueness kind of stopped there. Born at Midnight has the good guy vs. bad guy love triangle romance plot that occurs so often in countless other novels, thus making it really predictable.

The main character, Kylie, was really judgmental and often had/made rash, paranoid decisions and thought. This made it extremely hard to sympathize or relate to her. I also found Derek, Lucas, and all the other characters to be underdeveloped and vague. By vague, I mean that we didn’t really get to know them well enough. All the characters in this book had a lot of potential, some more than others, but I feel that, we should’ve been given more time with them, and they should’ve been developed better.

Plot-wise, this also had a lot of potential. So much could’ve been done with this. However, most of the book was rather flat and plot-less. When a problem did occur, it was quickly solved, and not very exciting. When the plot finally came it was towards the end, and that too was quickly finished.

I also feel like the author tried too much to give this the teenager-ish feel, and instead this became kind of choppy and repetitive. However, the author’s writing was, for the most part, smooth and clear. I feel like the story needs a little tightening up plot-wise. This could’ve been a very enjoyable read. Even so, I’ll give the sequel a try. I hope it doesn’t disappoint.

If I could, I would give this book a million stars for the cover. It’s purple! *strokes the cover* Pretty pretty purple… The next one also has a gorgeous cover *wanders off in search of more prettyful covers…*