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2 Stars: Not too bad. Probably wouldn't buy again, but no waste of time/tree either. Some flaws, but often much potential. Often make my petpeeveometer blink like crazy. Def­i­nitely advice you to bor­row or swap instead of pay­ing the full price. ________________The first few pages were quite good actually. They were easy to read and it wasn't until the heroine, Drew, met the Tracer Ronan, that things went downhill. They later got better, though. So.. 2 stars.But first things first. Drew is a super-intelligent 17 years old girl, whose mom died when she was four years old. She graduaded and went to the University of Florida to escape her violent father and stepmother, but when she arrives at UF she's told that there've been some problems and she's actually still a Highschooler. Paperwork or something. There she meets Ronan who convinces her to come with him to the Isle of Night.My first problem was that she trusted a guy she didn't know at all. The reader is later told that there were reasons for that - He is a Tracer and has the ability to convince people to do some things, although it's not as easy as it sounds. Still, you'd think a person with 185 IQ points'd be a little less easy to convince.My next problem is that what the image she has of herself and the way she acts/the things she does/thinks clearly contradict eachother. She, for example, mentions that she doesn't have friends, because she's .. alien. That she doesn't care about the things other teens/ya's care about. The next moment she thinks about Ronan, kissing, her breasts etc. I don't say it's a bad thing to think about such things, but it's obvious she is just a 17 years old girl after all.When they arrive at the Isle of Night, where she is to be taught stuff for special girls she noticed that it's a girls-only-school (well, almost, but more about that one later)They are all at a gathering when the headmaster claims to be a vampire. One of the girls starts laughing and he kills her. He then explains that the girls all have the potential to be Watchers and are to be taught how to be one. So, in this world we have three different beings:Vampires. They can walk in the sunlight, but their eyes are sensitive to it. They need blood as far as I can tell, can hypnotize/compell people and are immortal. Their blood is addictive.. They can be killed, thoughWatchers. The female counterparts, except that it doesn't look like they're in any way immortal. Each potential Watcher has a gift/ability. For example fire. They drink vampire's blood and it seems it makes them more obedient and drawn to the vampires, but it also makes them stronger and gives them certain advantagesTracers. They can find girls with the gifts I've mentioned above, drink vampires' blood and have some abilities.This academy teaches the girls how to fight and dance, how to behave properly (because vampires are old and stuff), but also stuff like how to open doors without keys or algebra. They are told that only 5 out of all of them (100+) are going to survive and that they should basically not make friends, because who knows who's going to backstab you, right? Her roommate is one of those girls and tries to kill her several times and Drew isn't popular at all after she's done a mistake and 5 girls died because of that.About the boys - There are some. Potential vampires. Drew befriends one, a japanese boy who killed his father after he killed his mom.Next to Ronan, there is a vampire who has taken a special interest in Drew and is quite creepy. He makes the story more interesting, though, especially since he's part of the reason why the girls start killing eachother in some sort of tournament. Drew kills several girls there, too.I will read the sequels, but I won't be in a hurry to do so once they're published. The heroine clearly isn't my bestie and I don't think anything happening in Isle of Night justifies a higher rating.