Nightshade By Andrea Cremer

Like Vampires, were wolfs have risen in popularity since Twilights fame started a few years ago, Because of this many writers started to write mediocre novels with little plot, two dimensional characters and very little setting or thought put behind it. 

I picked up Nightshade By Andrea Cremer hoping that it would fill a void left inside of me by terrible money making fiction. Thankfully, Cremer has done a good job with this novel.

The story is about a alpha female in a wolf pack called Calla. Her purpose in this pack is to join forces with an alpha from the neighboring, Ren. The wolfs are controlled by the "Keepers" which is a race of witches that are at war against the "Searchers". Although I enjoyed the concept of this I need believe that this was very unoriginal and seemed very cat and mouse, and the names aren't unique either! That aside, Calla saves a human boy that is trespassing on the mountains, which is against the law of her people. The boy is taken to the new pack and they have the job of protecting the boy we find outs name is Shay.  

Like many YA fiction out these days we need to realise that the "love" in them will be either one of two things, either the main characters fall in love at a fast pace, or a love triangle is started. Even though Nightshade is no exception, its refreshing. Ren acts like a wolf would in the wild which I believe is a very good aspect of this book. 

The writing is action packed and fast paced. The comedy and pouns used make the reading experience a worth while read and the character of Shay personally kept me turning the page as I personally wanted to know what he would do to annoy Ren next. That being true, I also found Ren's character to be compelling and felt very bad for him and almost went on "Team Ren" 

The Cover art is beautiful for this novel, the girl in the front looks very dramatic and striking. I have to also admit that I did buy this book based of the cover alone! 

The pricing on this book almost made me not buy it however. £11.99 for a book is almost double what I would usually pay in this genre, thank god for Amazon.co.uk having at such a low price.

While generally, I would recommend this book to anyone who likes Were wolfs or fantasy worlds, I have to say, I would wait for it to go down in price on websites rather then buying for full price, as even though it was an amazing read, its far too expensive!