Born at Midnight (Shadow Falls #1) Review

Born at Midnight by C.C. Hunter
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Kylie's luck seemed to go from bad to worst from the beginning. Her grandmother dies, her boyfriend breaks up with her, her parents are getting a divorce and her father is leaving. Not to mention that she has a soldier dude stalking her who no one else can see. A bit much to deal with, right? To make matters worse her shrink recommended to her mother that she be sent to a camp for delinquent teens called Shadow Falls. She arrives at the camp and quickly realizes that she is completely out of place. Everyone stares at her like she's a freak and she can't figure out why. The camp leader drops a bomb on her that things exist that she always believed were fictional. Vampires, werewolves, faeries. You've got to be kidding. But no, Holiday wasn't kidding.

Kyla was a bit rude to everyone at first. But can you blame her? That's a lot to take in. She's at a camp with all supernaturals and she may not be human. She didn't want to be there with all of those weird, creepy people. I thought she would be a spoiled brat but she wasn't. She cried a lot, but hey I probably would too if I was going through everything that she was.

I was definitely skeptical about Derek from the first time they hung out together. I wouldn't want someone altering my emotions even for my own good. Later I liked him. He said he would be patient and was. He backed off when she needed him to but was still there for her as a friend. After he got with that girl, I was ready to write him off. It was cute what he did after that though.

Lucas was very typical to me. He knew that he knew her from childhood and he liked her yet he still pretended he didn't like her and ignored Kylie most of the time. I loved the first kiss by the water fall and that they ran into Trey there. Trey was a complete jerk.

I loved Holiday because she seemed so down to earth and honest. I knew that she could be trusted from the start. Sky seemed to be more reserved and like she was up to something. I didn't know how I felt about her but I didn't expect her to be up to what she was doing. It was clever of Kylie to figure out about soldier dude by the end. But did he have to scare her like that throughout the whole book?

This book was well written. I always love it when books keep me guessing what's going to happen. That's what this book did. Lastly, the language and situations were relevant to teens today. You don't find that a lot. Many young adult books don't have curse words nor do they discuss sex. But that's a part of youth today so I was glad that it was written like that.

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