This story follows Alena Budrene, a successful bakery owner, as she is infected with a deadly virus and subsequent healing by the mysterious warlock Merlin. Merlin removes the virus by turning her into a new supernatural being with mysterious powers. Alena is forced to relocate across a dividing wall that separates her new kind from the humanss. This Venom Trilogy series by Shannon Mayer is a dark new world full of Greek mythology, heroes and their monsters, but Alena is poised to tear the system down. This was chaos from the first page. There were points where I was frustrated with Alena and her thinking, but she redeemed herself in the end. This is a hard book for me to rate because I am still not sure what I read in these 250 pages. I did enjoy getting to the end, but I’m not sure how I feel about reading the sequel, which is unusual with this author. (3/5 rating)
