Shadow Falls Camp

Last week I talked about one of the series that really got me into the YA fantasy genre, so I figured I’d continue that this week with the second series that pulled me into reading, Which is the Shadow Falls camp series by C. C. Hunter.

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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, shapshifters, 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…

Kylie starts off seeing a soldier guy, and dealing with her parents getting a divorce, which puts her in sessions with a shrink, but when she’s caught at a party, her parents ship her off to a summer camp for “troubled teens.” Once there Kylie learns that there is a supernatural world and creatures living right along humans. Kylie‘s camp leader’s give Kylie a quest to find out if she really belongs at this camp, along the way making really good friends with her cabin mates, Miranda a witch, and Della a vampire. Just as Kylie feels like she might be fitting in, the camp is being threatened to close down, and it’s up to Kylie and her friends to find out what happened.

You’ve heard the normal boarding school things for supernatural people, but I love C. C. Hunters idea for the summer camp for supernaturals.

C. C. Hunter does a great job of mixing both supernatural and just normal teenage problems together for this series, from learning about the supernatural and finding out you may be a part of that world, to dealing with boyfriend/ love triangle and parents getting a divorce.

There are five books in the main series with Kylie’s POV- Born at Midnight (one), Awake at Dawn (two), Taken at Dusk (three), Whispers at Moonrise (four), Chosen at Nightfall (five). There is also a couple books, which are spin-offs of the main series with different character POVs that Kylie meets in her journey of finding herself, like Della and Miranda each get to tell their story too.