“You know, just because my name is Charming doesn’t mean I have some kind of damsel-in-distress complex!”  -Elliott James, Daring

Grade: 4.5

Daring may not be as good as the first book in the series but it’s still an exceptionally good read. It feels like the author looked around and said, “Oh, so I have to write more of these now? Huh. I guess I need to create a game plan here.”  and that game plan included splitting up his characters, throwing his hero into the woods, and killing a lot of people with a lot less humor than the first book.

Daring finds our hero John Charming a full blown werewolf, on a break with his friends, and living with a were pack – oh excuse me they don’t like being called  a pack, they are a clan or a paw or some such crap – living in the woods.

There is a LOT OF PLOT going on in this book. In fact so much this book is split into parts. The reason is mostly because this book as far as I can tell is the book that sets up the series and the rest of the world. Where Charming was a one off. Daring is the book where everything gets real.