Ratings

Content Ratings based on a 0-5 scale where
0 = no objectionable content and
5 = an excessive or disturbing level of content

Guide to Rating System

LANGUAGE

VIOLENCE

SEXUAL CONTENT

ADULT THEMES

Ratings Explanation

Language: “Bleep” is used in place of swear words.  There are a lot of “bleeps”.  Pissed and sucked are used frequently in different forms.  Holy crap, ”OMG”, stupid brat, dork and such language are also used.  Evie flips someone off.

Violence: Evie uses a taser to get paranormals.  A lady is punched in the face.  Evie is trapped with a room full of vampires who want to kill her.  All the vampires are later found dead.  Evie finds a hag dead.  Jacques is killed, Evie can hear the screams.  Paranormals are being killed.  Lend is thrown against the wall and then electrocuted and goes unconscious.  A vampire lunges for a woman, biting her throat.  He is killed.  There is an attack and the fire woman is killing everyone.  Evie gets glass in her thigh and needs stitches.  A vampire is thrown against a tree. Someone is slapped and hit in face with iron skillet.  “Souls” are taken from bodies.

Sexual Content: Many descriptive words are used like sexy, hot, attractive, lustylicious.  Evie comments that she is really flat when looking under her shirt.  Evie can see that Lend is naked.  “Fairies aren’t in it for sex.”  Lend asks Evie if she will take her clothes off.  There is mention of flirting and trying to be sexy.  Evie craves physical contact because she never had enough affection as a child.  Evie unbuttons her shirt to look at her glowing heart.  There is hand holding and kissing.  Fairies have no nipples or bellybuttons.  Lend and Evie make out.  In her dream, Evie is near naked and her shirt is gone.  Lend asks Evie if she wants to stay in his bed.  She replies, “In your dreams” but then thinks to herself that she wouldn’t mind spending the night with him.

Adult Themes:  Evie thinks she is an abandoned child and that her parents never wanted her.  She has grown up without much affection or physical love.

Synopsis

What is the International Paranormal Containment Agency?  It is a group who keeps the paranormals under control and protects the “normal” world.  Evie, although believing herself normal, works for the IPCA.  She has the remarkable and unique gift of being able to see through paranormal glamors.  Her ex-boyfriend is a faerie who won’t leave her alone.  Her new love interest is a shape shifter in confinement for breaking into the IPCA.  Bad things are happening with increasing frequency; whole groups of paranormals are being murdered and something evil is behind it.  Evie finds herself at the very center of the problem, a dark faerie prophesy promising destruction to all other paranormals.  But who can Evie trust?  Who will help her?

This book had everything a teenager interested in the paranormal fiction could want. There were werewolves, vampires, faeries, hags and everything in between.  It had love and love/hate relationships.  Throw in a bit of action and you’ve wrapped up a good story.  I appreciated the author’s creative use of bleeps instead of actual swear words.  I still believe that swearing (or bleeping)  is completely unnecessary, but after reading so many books full of swearing, this at least, was something safer.  Young adult reading level covers ages 15-25, which is where this book falls.  I would recommend 16+ for this book.