Book #18

Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
452 pages
Popular fiction
This book was AMAZING it had everything that I think it needed. It's about a werewolf pack up in the mountains, but they aren't called werewolves they're called Guardians. They can change whenever they want, the moon has nothing to do with it. There are packs with alphas and betas and stuff like that. They serve the Keepers which are like warlocks and witches, one keeper is the head of the pack. I think an easier way to describe it is to use sports. The owner of the team is the Keeper, the team is the pack and the coaches are the Alphas. So there are two rival packs and the alphas' kids are going to be alphas of a new pack together. The two new alphas, Calla and Ren, have known this forever and they have their own pack or friends that will unite ar the Union which will be on Halloween, or Samhain for them. Everything is going according to plan until Calla saves a human from a bear attack and lets him see her change forms. He then ends up going to their school and lives with a Keeper. This boy brings something else with him, bravery, knowledge, and curiosity. He can't accept how things are at the Mountain school and messes everything up and falls for Calla. And Calla falls for him even though she is promised to Ren. I personally don't like this new guy, Shay, I think Ren is better but what can you do. So Shay and Calla start breaking all these rules: reading forbidden texts, telling a human about their world, kissing him, going into the Keepers sacred sites, and the worst Calla changes Shay into a Guardian. And with all this new knowledge Calla is questioning everything that she has ever known. And then at the Union when she is ready to give up Shay forever, he ends up being the thing that her and Ren have to hunt and kill to finalize their union. Then she ditches the Union and runs away with Shay. But they get attacked and captured by Searchers, who are supposed to be bad but are good... I think. They take both of them away and you don't know if they are going to help Calla or hurt her when the book ends.