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Rating 5.0 starsRe-read January 2020 - Still think this is an excellent book. I like the relationships and the emotions the author is able to elicit from the reader. Then to add on top of that the supernatural world. Cindy and Alex are definitely couple goals. Original review below. I was surprised at how much I like this book. I have gotten a little burned out with urban fantasy, werewolves, vampires and then I recently read the Demon Accords series which I really liked. This book was recommended based on that series so I thought I would give it a chance. I am glad I did. First off, I feel this was more of a story about a young boy and his best friend and family with a supernatural component then a supernatural story. What I mean by that is that the supernatural part was slow to be introduced. (view spoiler)[ The story starts with Alex as a 5 year old boy that just started school and how he became best friends with Cindy. He tries to help her when a bully picks on her at school and they became best friends right away despite the fact she was a girl and black and he was a boy and white. Then the story shifts to them in high school and explains about the first time he notices he can hear and see ghosts. Next the story shifts to the present day when he is 23 years old and Cindy is living right next to him. It had been 5 years since that last experience with the ghost and he thought it might just have been a dream. After that, the supernatural component really kicks in, but through it all the foundation of the story is still the relationship between Alex and Cindy (as well as the relationship with his sister and Cindy's family). They have been best friends for their whole life but maybe they both have feelings for each other more than friends? Neither one of them wants to ruin a friendship and they both give off clues that they might want more, but each one is too afraid to bring up this topic. This went on for a very long time in the story and it could have become frustrating because it was so obvious that they should be together. They did get together at the end, which I am very happy for, because if the author tried to milk this thing any longer or come up with some excuse why they can't be together just so he can change his mind 3 books later, I would have been pissed. As it stands it was a very endearing storyline. While this was happening, we go along with Alex to find out he has more powers than just being able to see and speak to ghosts. We also learn how this happened. We also get a sneak peak into other supernatural creatures after he meets Victoria and she turns out to be a vampire. It turns out that Alex was adopted and didn't find out till he was 23. Then we find out that his parents were cult leaders and he was born just so he could be sacrificed to demons and they could take the demons powers. Something went wrong and his parents and the cult died, but somehow Alex ended up with the demons powers. He is not a demon, but he does have their powers. (hide spoiler)]