Evie longs for one thing only, to go to high school like the girls in her favourite TV soap and have her very own locker. It's not that life's been bad to her, after being found abandoned as a child by The International Paranormal Containment agency and taken into their care. She just wants a little bit of normal in her life away from the capture of paranormal creatures, creepy fairies and close confinement in the IPCA's underground bunkers. At least she has best friend Lish to turn to, even if she is a mermaid. But when an unknown paranormal manages the impossible and breaks in to the secure headquarters, Evie is intrigued. Ss she gets to know Lend she can't help but ...  Read the complete review

Evie likes to think of herself as a normal teenager. But what teenager has a best friend who is a mermaid and an ex-boyfriend who's a faerie, works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency and is the only person who can see through paranormals' glamours?! When a paranormal called Lend breaks into the IPCA and takes on the image of other people, the IPCA lock him up. However, Evie finds him interesting and keeps visiting him, despite being warned not to by her superior, Raquel. Shortly after Lend's arrival paranormals start to die at an alarming rate. Evie suspects the deaths and her abilities are some how linked and that she's at the ...  Read the complete review

Paranormalcy is the first book in a trilogy by Kiersten White. The hardback was released on 31st August 2010 by Harper Teen with the paperback due for release in January 2011. Paranormalcy is 352 pages long. Plot Evie always thought she was normal. As normal as she could be working for the International Paranormal Containment Agency (IPCA), having a faerie as an ex boyfriend and being the only person in the entire world who can see through a paranormal's glamours. Oh and her best friend is a mermaid. Completely normal, right? When strange things begin to happen at the Agency and a strange paranormal gets taken into their custody, Evie ...  Read the complete review

--Book Synopsis-- Weird as it is working for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, Evie's always thought of herself as normal. Sure, her best friend is mermaid, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she's falling for a shape-shifter, and she's the only person who can see through paranormals' glamours, but still. Normal. Only now paranormals are dying, and Evie's dreams are filled with haunting voices and mysterious prophecies. She soon realizes that there may be a link between her abilities and the sudden rash of deaths. Not only that, but she may very well be at the centre of a dark faerie prophecy promising destruction to all paranormal creatures. ...  Read the complete review

Synopsis: From Amazon When your world is paranormal, be glad that you're human... Sixteen-year-old Evie has always taken comfort in the fact that she is normal, even though her best friend is a mermaid and her ex-boyfriend is a lunatic - and a faery. In a world where paranormals are monitored and controlled, Evie works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency because of her unique ability to see through glamours. But someone - or something - starts killing vampires, werewolves and other paranormals, and Evie must figure out what's happening before they all disappear. Then a shapeshifter named Lend breaks into the agency, and Evie is ...  Read the complete review