Born at Midnight by: C.C. Hunter

Title:  Born at Midnight
Author:  C.C. Hunter
Genre:  Romance, Paranormal/Supernatural, Mystery, YA/Teen
Age:  13+
Rating:  4.5 out of 5 stars

Summary:  (Taken from the Goodreads Website)

One night Kylie Galen finds herself at the wrong party, with the wrong people, and it changes her life forever. Her mother ships her off to Shadow Falls—a camp for troubled teens, and within hours of arriving, it becomes painfully clear that her fellow campers aren’t just “troubled.” Here at Shadow Falls, vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, witches and fairies train side by side—learning to harness their powers, control their magic and live in the normal world.

Kylie’s never felt normal, but surely she doesn’t belong here with a bunch of paranormal freaks either. Or does she? They insist Kylie is one of them, and that she was brought here for a reason. As if life wasn’t complicated enough, enter Derek and Lucas. Derek’s a half-fae who’s determined to be her boyfriend, and Lucas is a smokin’ hot werewolf with whom Kylie shares a secret past. Both Derek and Lucas couldn’t be more different, but they both have a powerful hold on her heart.

Even though Kylie feels deeply uncertain about everything, one thing is becoming painfully clear—Shadow Falls is exactly where she belongs…  

Reaction:

Ahhh, finals are over and there is more time to read, can life get any better?  This is the epitome of a perfect, light, summer read.  Heck, this book is set at a summer camp for supernaturals!  I finished this book in a day and I loved every minute of it!  It was funny, mysterious, romantic, and fantastical!  I've been wanting to read this series for a long time and finally Cait gave me the second book, so I thought it was about time to start reading this series.  I went out and got the first book and now here we are.  I seriously loved this book...okay, enough ranting and onto the characters.

Characters:

Kylie Galen:
I've read multiple reviews where it has been said that Kylie is a whiner and that nothing gets done in the book, but I beg to differ.  Kylie is going through difficult times and she reacts about the same as every other teen would:  she becomes cold, angry, and distant.  She blames people and gets angry.  I don't blame her!  Kylie is also strong mentally and even though she isn't exactly "accepting" of new ideas she has enough of an open mind to entertain supernatural possibilities.  But, the thing that I liked best about Kylie was the fact that she was a very good friend to pretty much everybody and she is very forgiving.

Derek and Lucas:
They were both awesome!  Can Kylie end up with both of them?  Is that even possible?  Derek is very kind and respects Kylie's wishes about staying just friends, which is really rare in male leads which makes me like Derek even more!  Lucas is very mysterious and shares a past with Kylie, he is sort-of brooding and more of a bad boy type, but he is actually very kind and is never mean to Kylie!  I also thought Lucas was awesome!  Urg!  Why do they both have to be so kind and perfect!  Sheesh, C.C. Hunter please don't make me choose! 

Miranda and Della:
Can anyone ask for better friends?  I absolutely loved Miranda and Della!  They were the best friends that Kylie could ever ask for and they even set aside their differences to keep Kylie happy and even ended up friends in the end.  I hope in future books that there are no big tiffs in this friendship, because that would make me very sad :(

Holiday:
Holiday runs the Shadow Falls Camp, and even though Kylie doesn't trust her right away they end up becoming very close friends.  Holiday is only a bit older then Kylie and they have a lot in common.  Like most other characters in this story, Holiday is very kind and tries her best to help Kylie find out who she is and help her feel at home!  Please, please, please let nothing happen to Holiday, she is my favorite character!

Overall:

I love, love, loved this book!  I can't imagine a cuter, funnier book to read at the beginning of the summer!  Some people say that there is a big cliffhanger at the end of this book, but I didn't think that, that was the case.  Personally, I thought the book wrapped up rather nicely and I'm very excited to get into the next book in the series!  I recommend this book to anyone who likes paranormal, romantic, or funny reads.

Listening to the Wicked soundtrack on repeat -Terantum