Real Teen Award
-Best Writing Style of 2010
-Best Writing Style of 2010
The Gist
Evie, despite her best efforts, has never and will never be normal. When she was just a baby her parents abandoned her, leaving her at the mercy of the foster care system. At eight years old she was found by the IPCA (international paranormal containment agency), an agency focused on capturing paranormals - vampires, werewolves, mermaids, hags – to keep the world organized and the humans safe. The day they find her, the IPCA realizes something ground-breaking about Evie: she’s special. She can see through what the paranormal world calls “glamours”. Instead of seeing a normal-looking human – like the rest if the world – she sees the creature for what it really is. The yellow eyes of werewolves. Dead, peeling skin of vampires. Blackened teeth and moss-covered hair of hags. She sees it all – when no one else can. So the IPCA takes her in, and makes her one of them. She captures werewolves, vampires, hags, whatever they ask her to get she gets for them. Until a special type of paranormal breaks into IPCA. An unknown, unclassified kind, who steals faces and makes them his own. Stealing as many faces as necessary to break in, he’s searching through ICPCA documents when Evie finds him. And tazes him. Once contained and interrogated, the creature tells them two things. One: his name is Lend. Two: mass amounts of free paranormals are mysteriously dying every day. Hearing this, Evie is determined to find out more. She visits Lend’s cell every day to try to learn more about what he is, and what’s happening to all the paranormals. Then Lend asks her an important question. What is she? She can’t be human if she can see through glamours. As Evie begins to question everything she’s known all her life, her ex-boyfriend/faery chauffeur starts stalking her. Following her. Kidnapping her. Evie’s paranormal world begins to crumble with each new question she asks herself. What’s up with the faery? Who’s killing the paranormals? And what exactly is she?
What We Think
What We Think
Reviewed by Dream Catcher
Number of Pages: 335
Fun fact: I read this book when I was sick with acute bronchitis. Okay. So maybe that wasn’t such a fun fact. But it was true. Since I had all the time in the world to do absolutely nothing at all, I went out to Barnes and Noble and got myself something to do. From the moment I started reading, I didn’t want to put it down. I loved the idea of a secret paranormal society, and the IPCA. The characters were another great part of the story, Evie and Lend were the best, because they were relatable. They were very different, but they were teenagers that were believable. They were cute together and certainly made the story interesting. Reth, Evie’s ex-boyfriend, completely creeped me out the entire book. But I think that’s a good thing. He was supposed to be the creeper character, and if I was creeped out, the author pretty much succeeded, right? The great thing about all the characters is they made me feel something. Evie and Lend got me to feel bad for them, and they got me to like them. Reth made me angry and obviously creeped out. So, basically, characters were a major plus of this book – I LOVED them. Like I said earlier, I loved the whole idea of the book. The plot was interesting and completely unique, which was awesome. Now: the writing. I have only one complaint. And it’s about complaining. Evie always complained that she didn’t know who she was, what she was, why she was. Now, the first few times I felt kind of bad for her. It would really stink to find out after sixteen years of life as simply a gifted human that you might be WAY more than a gifted human. Identity crisis! But after reading her saying I don’t know who I am anymore dozens of times it got to be annoying. But other than that, I thought the writing was amazing. The style made me feel as though I knew Evie and that she was telling me the story. One last thing: COVER and TITLE. AMAZING. The cover is so dramatic and cool looking! The first time I saw it I immediately thought, hey that looks like a really good book. And do I even have to say anything about the title? Anything called Paranormalcy is worth checking out! Overall, I thought this was a really, really good book. I’m so glad I read it and would certainly recommend it to people to read. It was the best book I’ve read in a long time.
Real Teen Rating~ A : Go Buy Now.
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