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Let’s start with the first, Dark Angel. Gillian wasn’t popular and while walking home, she was feeling sorry for herself. Her best friend, Amy, just got a boyfriend and seemed to forget to give her a ride home. Of course the only boy that Gillian was interested in was David. Gillian always kept to herself and was tongue tied when it come to boys. On her walk home, her whole life changed. She thought she heard a child crying. She didn’t want to go into the woods with all the snow and everything being cold and wet but she couldn’t leave a child out in that kind of weather alone and crying, so off she went. She kept going further in and further in but she couldn’t seem to find anyone. Once she heard the creek, she thought that maybe the little girl fell in and went to check it out. She had to get closer and closer in order to see well enough and then she fell in. The water was icy cold and she knew that she wasn’t going to make it out alive but her brain made her push away from the current and grab a hold of anything to stay afloat. Once she was back on the edge, she forced her frozen body to get out and walk to get help. Her body shut down and she gave up. When she had her out of body experience, she was given a choice to stay or go back and make a difference. On her way back, an angel followed her and taught her many ways to stand out and be popular and to get the guy of her dreams. Is her guardian angel all he’s cracked out to be? Will Gillian’s popularity be all she’s dreamed of?

The Chosen was one of my favorites. Rachel had a really traumatic experience when she was little. She lost her mother and her little brother to a vampire. She didn’t know what he was doing but she didn’t want him to hurt her, so she ran back to the playground and when he wouldn’t go away so she could relax, she screamed. She made the vow that all vampires must die. She has looked for the one that took her family but hasn’t been able to kill him yet. She isn’t giving up hope though. All her life she has trained and trained and all she did was hunt vampires. When her fellow vampire hunters and her run into Quinn, she can’t figure out why he is getting to her. She has never hesitated until him. While letting him go, she lost respect from her friends and seemed to lose herself.  When she meets up with him again, she has vowed to kill him but she needs to get into this warehouse full of girls being kidnapped and sent to a vampire coven. She wanted the chance to kill a whole coven. What happens when Rachel and Quinn meet again? Quinn was told by someone he respected that when he meets his soulmate it was going to hurt him and that someone was right. Quinn felt like his insides were melting. He always tried to be cold and separated but with Rachel around, he couldn’t.

Soulmate was really great. Hannah is very beautiful if it wasn’t for the birthmark that goes across her cheek (which has a meaning that I’m not telling). She thinks that she’s going crazy. She even goes to a shrink. Hannah shows him all the notes that she wrote but didn’t remember writing. Of course they were non sense. Some were telling her to remember and some were about her upcoming 17th birthday. While talking and trying to explain how she feels anxious about someone or something watching her, the doorbell rings. When the shrink gets up to answer the door, a werewolf jumps into the window. While trying to save herself, another werewolf jumps in and starts defending Hannah. With all that, Hannah knows that something is going on. It seems that the Lord of the Night World is her soulmate but she doesn’t understand since there is another that isn’t going to let her live past her birthday. When Thierry heard from his wolf that she had been found, he rushed to her and wanted to explain what is going on. It seems that Hannah is an old soul that is reincarnated over and over. It also seems that Thierry kills her every time. The only thing that she can’t understand is how wonderful she feels when he’s around. When everything comes back to her and she remembers, she knows that he was the one who betrayed her. What will come of Hannah? Will Thierry have his soulmate back?

I loved this whole book. All three stories in one. I was worried when I first picked up this series because they were about different people until the characters lives became meshed. I was hooked then. The characters are realistic enough that it doesn’t take anything at all to join the Night World. I have to admit that I burnt a few suppers when I read this. I didn’t want to put it down. After the second time I read it, it was even more interesting. I can’t wait to delve into another series of Night World. Let’s hope that there will be many more.