Wow! Imagine awakening surrounded by dead, burning bodies and two strange men. Now imagine having ZERO CLUE as to who you are or how you ended up there. What a thrill ride. Within minutes of waking up "Stephanie " learns she has no memory, is surrounded bydeath, and oh yes... her two mysterious heroes claim she's a VAMPIRE?!?! Holy Hannah... Vampires are real?! Check that.... She also learns so are demons, werewolves, gargoyles, angels and more... What the heck is going on and why can't she remember anything? Even when the head vampire aka Boss tries to peer into her memories he comes up with bubkus. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. If the Almighty vampire can't gleen any information from her mind how the heck was she supposed to figure anything out? At least Boss and Jonas seem to be trying to help. So begins the magical mystery tour of trying to learn who she is. To say it's the start of MANY shocking revelations would be an understatement . I loved this story as it's so NOT your typical paranormal book. Oodles of mystery, back stabbing, romance, and many surprises grace these pages.... And I for one cannot wait to see what happens next. What does she end up being... For one thing is for certain... After surviving what she did, she's definitely. NOT human. ( )

What a great book!I can't wait for the next book ! ( )

I received a copy of The Awakening from the Basically Books group on Goodreads so thanks to the author and the mods for making this available. The heroine is woken up by two strangers as she lay in the dump, she has no idea who she is, or anything about herself other than a couple receipts and a knife with the initials SB. She is also surrounded by 30 dead bodies of vamps, weres, demons and the only thing she knows for sure is that she is not a murderer, that's the start of a really sucky day for SB.

The Awakening has all kinds of supernatural creatures weres, vamps, demons and angels and as "Stephanie" encounters each group they all recognize something in here. She is a unique creature in that she's a little bit of everything and who she is and how she came to be is a mystery that Stephanie and crew must solve to help her regain her memories.

I liked "Stephanie" as a character, she had strength after everything was taken from her. I liked the supporting cast especially the hot werewolf, I didn't much like the character of Boss. The dark brooding vampire has been done to death and he just annoyed me, he calls Stephanie an abomination one minute then is doing her less than 24 hrs later. The plot is a pretty straight forward mystery, who is Stephanie and who killed all the supernatural creatures found in the dump. There is lots of action to keep turning the pages and I will read the next book...there's better be a next book. ( )