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This book is amazing. I tried really hard to pace myself, so I could make it last longer, but I ended up reading it all in one sitting anyway because I could Not. Put. It. Down.

First, the voice. Most of the time either the narrator's voice is either nonexistent, or so over the top that it knocks you out of the story. Darrows does an amazing job of blending the two. The story moves along, it's not like someone is just talking at us, but it's all flavored with her special brand of snark that had me laughing out loud. Many times.

Maggie's character was refreshing. She's self confident without being unrealistic, but there were moments of self doubt that made me want to hug her if she wouldn't have stabbed me for it. I also love how the focus of the book is more about Maggie and her relationship with her mother instead of focusing on the romance aspect at the expense of everything else. Of course, there are enough really sweet romance bits to satisfy my need for mushy bits.

The other characters were all very well thought out. Everyone, from the flunkies, to the antagonist, to the supporting characters, were their own people with their own stories rather than wallpaper for Maggie's story.

I also enjoyed the setting. I read a lot of urban fantasy so I'm familiar with how "monster hunters" as a genre usually function. This was a cool bit of realism, where Maggie wears ratty jeans and t shirts rather than leather because her clothes are always getting messed up. There were enough cool details about how magic works, how being a professional hunter works, along with supernatural creatures that I felt like I was in Maggie's world and it wasn't just window dressing for the plot.

Despite what you might think from the description, this book wasn't one big sex experience after another. Maggie tries to go for The Sex early on with...uhh...special results. Rather than this book just being about Maggie trying to have sex and succeeding toward the end of the book like I initially assumed, there's a lot of other stuff going on like Maggie dealing with going on jobs with her mother, complications from a vampire attack, and trying to be a normal teenager.

I am desperately hoping for a sequel, but Darrows wraps everything up so that even if there isn't one, no threads are left hanging and making you feel cheated at the end.

Some of my favorite quotes:

"My panic-stricken brain latched onto that like a wood tick on a labradoodle."

"It was like I'd gone full-throttle rabid raccoon. All I needed was to eat some garbage before a cop shot me and put me out of my misery."


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The Awesome Eva Darrows Books Reviews

I bought THE AWESOME (kindle edition) after listening to the author speak on several panels at Boskone55. I was impressed with her thoughts on sexuality and strong female characters in YA literature. This book did not disappoint.

What did I like most about the book? The relationship between Maggie (main character) and her mother. Both women are unapologetically self-confident, ambitious, opinionated, capable, and have a strong sense of justice. They call things as they see them, have viciously funny senses of humor, and came through as multi-faceted and authentic. They love each other more than anything, but they still clash and fight... just like real people in real life.

Amazingly, the romantic sub-plot of this novel did not irritate me, as most romantic sub-plots do in most YA novels I read. If anything, I fell right into it. Why? Because Maggie's interest in Ian didn't diminish her self-confidence and didn't overpower her thoughts. Unlike most of what I read, in which the boy holds all the power in the developing relationship, Maggie was the one running the show. She kept herself front and center in her own life. She didn't pluck herself out of the center of things and drop in the boy she likes and start orbiting him. Not that there wasn't plenty of teen angst running through Maggie's mind during her quest for her Journeyman's license (I'm being intentionally vague here to avoid potential spoilers), but the angst was wry and sincere and well written. Thank you Eva Darrows (aka Hillary Monahan)!!

Now, in truth, I would have given this book 4.5 stars out of five only because the plot of the novel was a little thin for me. If anything, it felt like this was the first book of a series. Certainly, there were many a set-up for some future awesome adventures full of intrigue and dangerous vampire political skullduggery and maybe some zombifying environmental/pharma conspiracies. I certainly hope there are more AWESOME books in the pipeline, because the characters (ALL of them) captured my heart. Maggie, Janice, Lauren, Ian, Jeff, and even Lubov. I want more adventures! More, more, more!
This book is amazing. I tried really hard to pace myself, so I could make it last longer, but I ended up reading it all in one sitting anyway because I could Not. Put. It. Down.

First, the voice. Most of the time either the narrator's voice is either nonexistent, or so over the top that it knocks you out of the story. Darrows does an amazing job of blending the two. The story moves along, it's not like someone is just talking at us, but it's all flavored with her special brand of snark that had me laughing out loud. Many times.

Maggie's character was refreshing. She's self confident without being unrealistic, but there were moments of self doubt that made me want to hug her if she wouldn't have stabbed me for it. I also love how the focus of the book is more about Maggie and her relationship with her mother instead of focusing on the romance aspect at the expense of everything else. Of course, there are enough really sweet romance bits to satisfy my need for mushy bits.

The other characters were all very well thought out. Everyone, from the flunkies, to the antagonist, to the supporting characters, were their own people with their own stories rather than wallpaper for Maggie's story.

I also enjoyed the setting. I read a lot of urban fantasy so I'm familiar with how "monster hunters" as a genre usually function. This was a cool bit of realism, where Maggie wears ratty jeans and t shirts rather than leather because her clothes are always getting messed up. There were enough cool details about how magic works, how being a professional hunter works, along with supernatural creatures that I felt like I was in Maggie's world and it wasn't just window dressing for the plot.

Despite what you might think from the description, this book wasn't one big sex experience after another. Maggie tries to go for The Sex early on with...uhh...special results. Rather than this book just being about Maggie trying to have sex and succeeding toward the end of the book like I initially assumed, there's a lot of other stuff going on like Maggie dealing with going on jobs with her mother, complications from a vampire attack, and trying to be a normal teenager.

I am desperately hoping for a sequel, but Darrows wraps everything up so that even if there isn't one, no threads are left hanging and making you feel cheated at the end.

Some of my favorite quotes

"My panic-stricken brain latched onto that like a wood tick on a labradoodle."

"It was like I'd gone full-throttle rabid raccoon. All I needed was to eat some garbage before a cop shot me and put me out of my misery."