The Madman's Daughter by Megan ShepherdJuliet Moreau is essentially an orphan. Her mother is dead. Her father, well, no one seems to know. He could be dead, there are rumors that he might be. Dead or not, he has not been seen nor heard from since the scandalous rumors about his medical experiments. Juliet, being left to her own devices has been working jobs where she's found herself harassed. When that harassment is clearly about to cross the line into something way worse and Juliet stumbles across an old friend who surely can lead her to the truth about her father, she feels like she has nothing left to lose and everything to gain so she jumps ship - Well, she climbs aboard a ship headed for a remote island to find her answers anyway. Once she gets to the island, she finds her father, alive and well. She also finds a lot of things she'd rather not have found. Deformed locals. Creatures that seem to be not at all human. A blood red laboratory where her father seems to be doing... something that causes late night screaming. Oh and she's torn between between two boys, Montgomery who she has known since childhood and Edward the mysterious castaway. Some aspects of the love triangle seemed forced just to drag out the story longer than it needed to be. In fact, it's apparently going to be a series (perhaps the now mandatory trilogy?). It felt like this book could have been edited down a lot more and been made into one complete story without having to go that route. Still the drawn out story / love triangle aspect would be my only real pet peeve (one I have with many stories now). Beyond that, it's actually a good story and fast read.
