Born at Midnight (Shadow Falls #1)

The book was ok. The story was interesting, but I just couldn't get into it. I liked the concept and loved who the ghost turned out to be, but something just kept me from falling in love with the book.

If I'm honest, I was already biased against this book. Most of you know that me and love triangles don't along so well. I don't understand the appeal. 90% of YA books seem to have some form of a love triangle, and it's starting to piss me off. I don't know why I even read this book ._.

The good thing? The love triangle wasn't terrible, considering one of the boys basically disappeared by the middle of the book, but the fact that there still was a love triangle bothered me. And this is only the first book in a series, so I'm sure he'll reappear again somewhere -_-

Born at Midnight is a novel told in third person. Normally, I don't mind that, but in this book, it bothered me. I didn't like Kylie very much - she seemed much younger than she was. She said things like "Dad-nabbit" and never swore, which wasn't a problem, it was just the words she said in place of swears. It was too immature for me. She wasn't a particularly strong character, either - she spent a lot of time being scared and just questioning things instead of doing things. Sure, she had her courageous moments, but otherwise, I wanted to kick her butt to make her move and do something -_-

Anyway, I felt like maybe if I'd seen into Kylie's head a little more and seen how she actually thought, I wouldn't have hated her so much. This is one time a third person narration just didn't work for me.

I wasn't very fond of some of the secondary characters. Kylie's friends held no appeal for me, and both the romantic interests fell a little flat to me. I didn't get enough personality when it came to Derek, and when it came to Lucas, well, none of him really made sense to me.

Of course, there were a few things I liked. The idea of Shadow Falls was interesting to me, how everyone there is a different type of creature. It seemed like an odd idea, but Hunter made it work. The way things were explained was easy to follow, and there weren't very many times where I was confused that I had to put the book down to make my brain stop hurting :P

Overall: Born at Midnight was one of those novels. Those novels where I can find so much wrong, where I nitpick every single little thing, but yet I can't stop reading. I'm not sure why that was, since I obviously didn't like the book very much. 2 1/2 stars.