Wicked Blood by Margot de Klerk

Teenage drama and supernatural hijinks abound in Wicked Blood, Margot de Klerk’s hugely original work of YA fantasy about mysterious curses, tangled webs of betrayal, and infighting between different factions of paranormal creatures. Cynthia, an eighteen-year-old shapeshifter who can transform into animals, is searching for her evasive dark mage father in Berlin when she gets mixed up in an investigation about missing monsters, and embarks on an unexpected, passionate romance that could be more risk than its worth. Chock full of exceptional world-building, unique characters, and jaw-dropping secret identity twists, Wicked Blood is more inventive than many works of paranormal fantasy, all set against the bewitching background of contemporary Germany.