Amelia has been in the foster system her entire life after being left outside a hospital as an infant, but after submitting her DNA to an ancestry website, she’s reconnected with her biological family and flies out to Australia to meet them.

Once she lands, things start to take an unexpected turn as she discovers that her mother is a vampire and her father a werewolf, making her a hybrid which is something that’s never been allowed to exist in the supernatural community before.

This is a familiar trope but the one thing that stands out is that the Larougo (werewolves) are dingos and have to take their animal form during the day and only walk as humans at night – it’s an interesting take and makes the most of the Australian setting of the book.

The story itself is slow moving and I feel would have benefitted from having more plot packed in to its pages, there was some repetition of points and covering old ground with the familiar trope. Amelia is not easy to gel with as a main character, after an initial, token resistance to the crazy culture shock she’s encountering with her new family and two entire new species she shares her heritage with, she goes along with everything with very little thought.

The epilogue was my favourite part of the book, all things considered – it manages to fit in more intrigue and antagonism than the rest of the book put together, bringing more depth to some of the characters that would have been excellent earlier on in the book.