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I don't truly know how this is such a best seller. I decided at this book to stop investing time into this series. The first book was confusing because it wasn't a stand alone series, as one would think with the author going from Adult Paranormal Romance to YA, but rather, it is part of her Adult Romance series.
Her writing is at best on par with fanfiction writing. You can see the makings of a great plot line with interesting characters, but its bogged down with a writing style that feels more like someone trying to fill up space than actually get readers to connect with the plot and characters. In this book *spoilers* Nick breaks up with Kody because he found out she was sent to kill him. But instead of the author taking the previous three books to build their relationship, it was just thrown together that she was hot and made Nick feel things since he was a teenager. The break up in this book felt like a thing that needed to happen to move the plot along. As a reader, I couldn't connect with Nick how betrayed or heartbroken he felt. I couldn't feel any desire in how wronged Kody was in the breakup. The break up was, "Hey Nick, your gf is an assassin to kill you." "Oh yeah? Bye Felicia." I felt no gut wrenching ache and desire for the couple's unfavored break up due to the fact that it wasnt developed.
On other characters, Nick claims Ash is his best friend but the only interactions they've had thus far was Nick asking Ash a bunch of questions, Ash showing up at random times to help Nick get saved, and then Ash teaching Nick to drive. It seems they have more of a guardian/dependent relationship than a best friend relationship. Kyrian is just a character that is there. He shows up...sometimes. But he is central to the plot? But he very rarely talks to Nick. As someone who hasn't read the DH series, I know nothing about this character, which to me reads as very poor writing. A good author can take any story and give you insight into all the characters without relying on previous installments in another series. Given that this is a jump in genres, this book ends up becoming an introduction of her as an author to many readers, making it vital that she takes the time to develop characters from her previous series.
I have no idea when Nicks mom suddenly became super Catholic. I found out in the third? book that Nick was an alter boy. Things like this are central to the characters development and personality and they aren't introduced until that key trait is important in that current paragraph.
It wasn't until this book I learned that Nick's grimoire had a name or even was the soul of a female. Things that should be introduced early on in the series. Also, there is no mention of how he discovered this. It just suddenly happened. And that describes most of the plot and the story. They are at school, they have a conversation and then suddenly Nick is getting hugged by his mom out of nowhere...? No, turns out they walked (or maybe it was drove? It never says) from school. They just suddenly were there.

So now that I have placed my own review, I have no idea how this is a best seller, when it has a very interesting plot line, however, very poor writing makes it uninteresting and disengages readers from wanting to find out what happens.