Review: Paranormalcy

Title: Paranormalcy (Paranormalcy #1)

Author: Kiersten White

Pages: 335

Publisher: Harper Teen

Published: August 31st, 2010

Rating: 4/5

Summary from Goodreads:

"Weird as it is working for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, Evie's always thought of herself as normal. Sure, her best friend is a mermaid, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she’s falling for a shape-shifter, and she’s the only person who can see through paranormals' glamours, but still. Normal.

Only now paranormals are dying, and Evie's dreams are filled with haunting voices and mysterious prophecies. She soon realizes that there may be a link between her abilities and the sudden rash of deaths. Not only that, but she may very well be at the center of a dark faerie prophecy promising destruction to all paranormal creatures. "

Paranormalcy was quite a good book. I really loved the twist on the way paranormals were viewed. Normally you see one, maybe two types of paranormals and that's it. The main character Evie, a human but not really, wasn't even afraid of them, her job was to find them and tag them so that the International Paranormal Containment Agency knew of their existence and could control them so that no one else would find out about their existence. It was really cool how all of the different types of paranormals were shown. It really stuck to the original make up of the paranormals, vampires were scary, werewolves changed into beasts on the full moon, that kinda stuff. It was the paranormals that we love but better! In addition to the original paranormals there were some cool new hybrids thrown in there which was awesome to see something new!

Character wise I wasn't in love with Evie's character, I couldn't really connect with her in the book but she seemed to have her head on as straight as she could given the circumstances and she wasn't overly obnoxious. The other characters were great however. Reth, a faerie love interest, was exceptionally interesting, you never really knew where he stood until the end. Evie may not have been in love with him but I think I was! Lend was interesting because he started off a mystery but opened up gradually as he began to trust Evie. The best part about him though, he could look like anyone he wanted. He's one of those awesome new paranormals I mentioned!

Overall, it was pretty well written. A nice balance of action and love interest. Definitely a series I'll continue and most certainly a book I'd suggest!

*BTW The front cover is cool but the back is even more awesome!!!