Proceed immediately to a bookstore or online bookseller and buy this book. Don't wait for the paperback. Read this now. Alameda's prose continuously, consistently paints a strong sense of scene, allowing the reader to see, touch, feel, and taste the dark and deadly underbelly of San Francisco. The monsters are so well-described that a reader's imagination can bring them into being without effort (getting rid of them, maybe not). The pools of blood that cause protagonist Micheline Helsing to slip leave the reader tilting with vertigo, and the San Francisco fog leaves chilled skin. The pacing of this book is spot on, never losing momentum while careening through Micheline's race against time. I don't usually read YA, horror, or first-person narratives, and Alameda delivered on all 3 fronts.