Draw the Dark is a fantasy young adult novel unlike anything I've ever read. No, seriously, the idea behind it was just so unique that I really couldn't help but want to get back to this book immediately. Does it really get any better than a guy (our hero) who can draw your death? Okay, so realistically I'm sure it must suck for the drawee and it definitely must suck to be the drawer since he has no idea what's going on with this power most of the time, but for us as readers, it's really pretty awesome.

So, YA Fantasy tends to be a hit or miss with me with, unfortunately for me, more being misses. But maybe it's because Draw the Dark has a male protagonist or because it was just so different, I ended up enjoying it. And man, did I feel for Christian. I would not want to suffer from not even one percent of the guilt he was feeling. The main thing that I loved about Christian was the he wasn't going on thinking "This is my burden to bear and I'm going to bear it alone! Oh woe, how nobody understands me! I'm going to be the hero!". He didn't have that sense of self-importance that I've seen with other male-driven YA novels. When things were getting serious, he accepted help. He wasn't as naive to think that he could do this alone; he knew he couldn't. I loved him for it. He was a team player.

I have always loved awesomely creepy books and boy was Draw the Dark awesomely creepy! I was a bit relieved that I read it during the day since I knew I would've been too creeped out to sleep with the lights off. When Draw the Dark wasn't creeping me out, it was filling me with dread for all of the characters. And when it wasn't doing that, it was astounding me with all of the knowledge that I was gaining by reading this. I had no idea that the U.S. housed POW from WWII (a gaping hole in my education perhaps?) and I love it when a fiction book teaches me about something I was wildly ignorant about. It wasn't just the WWII element, but the psychology as well (I'm a psychology major so I love all this type of stuff) and the ESP. The facts were given in a way that there were far from dry and really added to the story.

So, anyway, I have to say that Draw the Dark is one of the best fantasy novels I have read to date. It was filled with everything I love in a book: intrigue, horror, wisdom, knowledge, and it was wonderfully twisty (I was really blown away when everything unraveled...in a completely good way). This made me turn the pages (or click in my instance) at a frantic speed. It's highly recommended.