The Awakening

First off, I really enjoyed it. It had flaws, but I had a lot of fun and enjoyment reading it.

It started off from seeing https://imgur.com/gallery/Px96DUq on imgur, I just loved the positive message from Neil Gaiman, and as a Urban Fantasy fan, especially YA writing, I just had to check it out.

Sure, the main two characters are super stereotype (Loner nerd, super hot kick ass women), and I'm glad I got past that, because while it was sorta explained away, the rest of it was really well done.

Overall the book flowed really well, I feel like it was a bit longer than most YA books I read, but I never felt like it was a slug to get to the next part.

My two real complaints
* A bunch of minor characters were introduced, I generally have trouble remembering who is who, and things like “Thomas did foo” made me really have to think “Thomas was who again”.
* The very end was the weakest part, it very much felt like a buildup for new books, instead of ending this one

I'm absolutely going to be checking out the new ones