Author: Kiersten White
Series: Paranoramlcy #1
Published: 30th September 2010
Rating: 4
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 shapeshifter 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 begins to suspect there is a link between her abilities and the sudden rash of deaths, and even worse, that she is at the center of a dark prophecy promising destruction to all paranormal creatures.
Honestly where do I start? I've been meaning to read Paranormalcy for ages now and I'm glad I bumped it up on my TBR pile because it was utterly hilariously lighthearted read that literally had me laughing out loud!
Evie was mysteriously found at the age of 3 wandering around naked in a forest, since then she's been through the dreadful system of foster-care. Until one day, little 8 year old Evie has the unfortunate delight of an encounter with a vampire and can see through the veil of his glamour to his true corpse like form. Evie now sixteen works with the International Paranormal Containment Agency, bagging and tagging all paranormal's that threaten the exposure of the supernatural to the human world.
Evie's a pretty cool character, one that'll make you laugh your stomach into fits with her adorable and naive outlook on life. I think this is the first book I've ever read that's aimed in the YA genre that actually got it right. While most books these days are about growing teens that have aspects of an Adult book, Paranormalcy you'll see is for Young Adults and straight away within the first paragraph you will notice the difference between other YA books you might have read. Evie's personality reflects throughout the duration of the novel and sets that tone of immaturity and hopeful thinking that young ones get caught up in.
One constant trouble throughout Paranormalcy was the faeries! There's one particular fey called Reth that cause all kinds of trouble for Evie and her friends. Reth constantly advances towards Evie wanting to fill her up with some magical fire like liquid! I think that certainly comes under the 'all kinds of trouble' sign. Evie tries her hardest to avoid Reth but that is easier said then done as faeries are manipulative and cheeky. Then there's the gorgeous Lend who happens to be a shapeshifter and the troublesome person who broke into the IPCA just around the time paranormals started dropping dead.
With a dangerous mysterious creature on the loose Evie is forced on a high stakes mission with life altering decisions to find out who this killer is and why herself just may be connected to it in some twisted way. Paranormalcy was fun and hilarious, it was a breath of fresh air from your regular YA books!
-Taylor X
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