Nightwalker: The First Dark Days Novel

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anitaballerina, March 24, 2010 (view all comments by anitaballerina)
I received this book as a gift from a friend in Australia. I love vampire stories and she saw this and sent it me.
This is Ms. Drake's first novel and what a ride!
She crafts a tale that is original and well written and well thought out. She has a strong plot and very strong characters. I love this book and all of the others by Ms. Drake WONDERFUL book!

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Julie Anderson, August 13, 2008 (view all comments by Julie Anderson)
An intricate work that's stunningly complex and compelling. Once I picked "Nightwalker" up, I couldn't put down Jocelynn Drake's tale that (hopefully) is just the start of a series about an alternate reality existing in today's world. This is a dark urban fantasy. It's not a romance even though it has some romantic elements. Even though I finished reading "Nightwalker" a few hours ago, I'm still having difficulty extracting myself from Ms Drake's world.

Mira has been a vampire for over 600 years. She's also known as Fire Starter which is echoed in her wild red hair. She has survived cruelty and acts of torture so horrific, her mind refuses to remember and they only occasionally resurface as nightmares. She left her maker and her rescuer/healer to create a home and existence for herself in the New World and she's content with her existence. She doesn't kill when she feeds. She does, however, kill any humans or supernatural creatures who threaten to expose or disturb the comfortable life she's carved out in Savannah. So when a slayer appears in her territory, she decides to extract all the information she can before she kills him. She doesn't know that this slayer is more than he seems, and that his appearance in her life will herald a quest that will change everything she thought she knew about her life.

Mira fascinates me. She's certainly no angel but she's also not quite a demon. She's one of the most human supernatural creatures I've read about in a long time. She really just wants to safeguard the haven she's created for herself. 'Live and let live' would be her motto if she bothered to have one. Her relationship with the slayer who intrudes into her territory is so complex. I still haven't figured out exactly what he is...and neither has Mira. He's sometimes a friend, almost a love, could kill her with a thought, has saved her life several times, thinks she's damned, and is apparently willing to go against the organization he works for to protect her! Fabulous!

If you like your urban fantasies a bit dark, with strong sexual elements but no real 'romance', at least not yet...I can't recommend "Nightwalker" highly enough. There are shadowy mysterious organizations that are only mentioned or hinted at and I can hardly wait until May 2009 for the next release in this series, "Dayhunter".

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780061542770

Author:

Drake, Jocelynn

Publisher:

Eos

Author:

Herrmann, Edward

Author:

by Jocelynn Drake

Author:

Netco Partners

Subject:

Fantasy - General

Subject:

Vampires

Subject:

Fantasy fiction

Subject:

Science Fiction and Fantasy-Fantasy

Copyright:

2008

Edition Description:

Mass Market PB

Publication Date:

20080731

Binding:

MASS MARKET

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

384

Dimensions:

6.50x4.10x1.30 in. .40 lbs.