Jack’s life gets turned upside down when his best friend, Artie, is brutally murdered. What Jack learns afterwards is that this is only one in a string of brutal murders, committed by the Prowlers, which the police are covering up. When Artie’s ghost appears to Jack, Jack is determined to stop the Prowlers from killing anyone else, but it’s hard to hunt things that are hunting you.

I will admit that before starting this book I had my doubts. I wasn’t sure that I would like it. But now I have to say, this is one of the best fantasy novels I have read in a while. It’s gripped me in a way I’ve been looking a long time for a fantasy book to – something that hasn’t really happened in years, excluding Twilight, Harry Potter and a couple other that I don’t consider to be the same sort of fantasy. (They are almost more cotton candy ish, while Prowlers feels more like a meat and potatoes book. Yes, I may be hungry whilst writing this, hence the comparisons to food.) I’ve been looking for this kind of fantasy book for a long time. I had a very hard time putting this book down right from the first sentence, all the way through until the last sentence. It was action-packed from the start, and there’s never a dull moment.

The Prowlers themselves were . . . intriguing to say the least.

“They’re not werewolves, bro. I told you that. They’re Prowlers. These things have been around since the beginning of time. They can look human, but they were never human beings. They started out as animals, and that’s what they’ll always be.”

And vicious animals at that. But I have to admit that I totally enjoyed the parts of the book about the Prowlers more than the parts revolving around Jack & co. While the Prowlers in this book are not werewolves, they may have been what inspired the werewolf myth. And, again excluding Harry Potter, this may be the first time I’ve enjoyed something werewolfish in a book.

I am very excited to read the rest of the books in the series, as well as discovering more of Golden’s work.