A review by likecymbeline
Huntress by L.J. Smith

3.0

I have this thing when it comes to Young Adult books, their premises and cover art especially. I think I have more fun imagining who it will appeal to and how. There's always this imagined reader in my head, typically a teenage girl who feels as if she's on the brink of something, about to reach the edge of her power, her passion, her beauty. As if this next book is the one that will unveil the world hidden from her till now, and the reality of who she is. Books have always been about discovery for me, self-discovery especially, and nowhere is self-discovery as deep and rapid as in our teenage years. Everything we read is at once a mirror and a pool, reflecting us as well as pulling us into its depths.

I have no context for the Night World series except that it came up in my weeding and I wanted to know a little more of what it was. Read it and it's a Very 90s supernatural story with soulmates and not-bad-boys and Extremely Beautiful main characters. Sure enough, my Imagined Reader for this one is half-certain she is waiting to come into herself as a tough and beautiful half-vampire that everyone falls in love with.