At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. . .until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity.
Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead.
But before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students are turning into flesh eating zombies. And he's next on the menu.
As if starting high school isn't hard enough. . .now Nick has to hide his new friends from his mom, his chainsaw from the principal, and keep the zombies and the demon Simi from eating his brains, all without getting grounded or suspended. How in the world is he supposed to do that?
<b>3.5 stars</b>
The beginning was a real let down for me. It was just an introduction to Nick's crappy life. I found his character kind of unbelievable. He's always trying to protect people. He absolutely loves his mom. He didn't do a single mean or rude thing throughout the book. No one's <i>that</i> good. I mean, if I try to put myself in Nick's shoes then I would've sometimes been a little embarrassed of my mom and I wouldn't have been going around broadcasting my poverty either. He doesn't even know Kiryan and he starts telling him about how they don't have a TV or phone and gives a whole speech about not wanting Kiryan's pity. I on the other hand would've just said ''There's no way my mom's gonna find out about it''. DONE.
Then we meet the Simi and major ass kicking starts so the rest of the book was really amazing, not to mention funny.
The other thing that slightly bothered me was the vagueness. Even at the end of the book we're not provided with details about Malachai and <i>where the hell did the greek Gods come from?</i> Up till now we've been introduced to vampires, shape shifters, zombies, demons, the Nekoda thingies, the Kiryan thingies and the Malachai? There's too much supernatural stuff and zero explanations. I get that this will be explained later on in the series and the author's just mentioned them to perk up the reader's curiosity ,but frankly it's just annoying.
