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After her unexpected death, Ameerah is sentenced to several decades as a ghost in a parallel world. At the end of it she will be granted a second chance at her human life, returning to the moment she died and surviving her accident. Her duty is to hunt and kill demons, but this dangerous new world demands more than just years of service. Soon she realises the demons are not the only ones threatening her survival. Her new friends are scarce and as they struggle to make it, she can’t help but wonder if the promise of a second chance was not a ruse all along.

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First, I love the setting that this book takes place in. Having people live in a parallel world when they die, becoming ghosts and fighting monsters and vampire in order to get a second chance at life is an awesome idea. 

Second, the mysterious council that rules this parallel world with their “masters” whose blood can heal ghost was intriguing. Having them remain a mystery where you don’t really know what they are or what their motives are really made you want to keep reading to find out more. 

Third, I love vampires, especially when they are less twilight and more strong arrogant old vampires who rip people’s faces off just because. Always going to be a gold star in my book. 

Now for a few things that bothered me a little bit. 

First, the pacing felt a little bit stop and go. I felt like there would be long periods where not much would happen followed by abrupt action that happened quickly and then faded back to long periods of stagnation again. I’m not saying there shouldn’t be highs and lows action wise in the book, but it seemed like the highs were very high and the lows were pretty low. The action curve did start to even out nearer the end of the book, but that’s where my second problem comes in. 

Second, in the last collection of pages you get a massive info dump about the world and how it wasn’t how you thought it was and how there is so much you don’t know. This does set you up for a cliffhanger that makes me interested to read the second book, but at the same time I finished the book being like what just happened. I felt a little blindsided by the massive shift and felt like too much happened to change everything in the last few pages. 

Overall, I did enjoy reading this book. I love the setting and love the idea of where the next book will take us. While there were a few things that I felt broke up the flow of the book I still picked it up wanting to see what happened next and at the end of the day that’s all a book needs to do.