Book review: Supernaturally (Paranormalcy #2) by Kiersten White

Evie finally has the normal life she’s always longed for. But she’s shocked to discover that being ordinary can be...kind of boring. Just when Evie starts to long for her days at the International Paranormal Containment Agency, she’s given a chance to work for them again. Desperate for a break from all the normalcy, she agrees.

But as one disastrous mission leads to another, Evie starts to wonder if she made the right choice. And when Evie’s faerie ex-boyfriend Reth appears with devastating revelations about her past, she discovers that there’s a battle brewing between the faerie courts that could throw the whole supernatural world into chaos. The prize in question? Evie herself.

So much for normal.

I will admit that it’s been years since I’ve read the first book in this series, and it probably would’ve helped to pick that up and reread it before reading Supernaturally, because it took me a bit to remember everything that had happened and get back into the world.  I won’t blame the book for that; it’s my fault.  As with the first book, Supernaturally presents and incredibly interesting mythology and take on the supernatural creatures you know and love (and even some you might not know about, such as the fossegrim that attacks Evie in the lake).  Although it is kind of annoying when Evie starts making fun of people who go by the traditional views of vampires, such as when her English class is reading Dracula and she complains about how inaccurate it is.  They don’t know any better, so what do you have to complain about?

Beyond the mythology, though, this book is just okay.  There are definitely times in which the narration is very, very clever, because Evie is a pretty clever girl, despite being naïve.  And the ending was one I expected as far as her learning to do a certain thing, but it wasn’t in the way I had expected so that was good.  But it wasn’t a book that made me reluctant to put it down most of the time.  Jack ending up being somewhat of a bad guy didn’t surprise me, although there could have been more lead-up to it.  There are plenty of hints, but they’re ones you can dismiss pretty easily.  Not enough foreshadowing, I guess.  And the plot doesn’t really seem to revolve around what was hinted in the summary.  In fact, because Jack ended up being the bad guy, you could say the summary doesn’t really fit it at all.  Yeah, the faeries are asses, and Reth is annoying, but they have very little part in anything.

Still, I’ll be looking around for Endlessly so I can finish up the series and see how things go.  Happy reading!