Midnight Rose by Dani Hart

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Summary: 
 My grandfather had once told me that life was an unpredictable beast—one moment calm with a full belly and heavy eyes, and the next, digging its paws in the dirt, snarling just before it took down its next victim. Until recently, I would argue with that notion, listing all the reasons why my life was as predictable as the tides coming and going. While I listened, I was young and never put much thought into a lot of the things my grandfather told me, but all that changed when the Hunters moved back to Sandpoint. More specifically, Wes Hunter. That was when the impossible became possible and the predictable became unpredictable.

As Abigail Rose looked down on her new world, she couldn’t deny the things she had seen and all the things she had learned. There were days she wished she could go back to her old life, but she had changed. Evolved. She was no longer a love-struck seventeen year old. She was a chosen leader and her path was undeniable. The black and white was fading to gray, and the only thing between mortals and immortals was her.

This book had a slow burn to it but if you stuck with it, it picked up in the end. It did take a while for the author to explain certain things. We were introduced to the main character and learned that something had happened to her years ago but did not learn exactly what it was until almost halfway through the book.

Abby was a very dramatic character at first thinking that her world was ending because of a boy. Originally I had thought that they had dated which was why she was so hurt over everything but that was not the case. She matured a bit as the book progressed which helped me to enjoy her as a character more.

I thought that the dreams and flashbacks of memories that Abby had were tense and kept me on the edge of my seat. They easily kept my attention and most of the time I wanted them to keep going because they were exciting especially the nightmare where she is running through the forest.

Even though it took a while to build up steam it was a good first book in the series to place the groundwork for the story. I can't wait to get my hands on the next book! I have a feeling that things in the story are really going to pick up since the setting has changed, we will learn more about certain characters that up until this point have been mysterious, and Abby is going through her training.