Drake is being canny about her secrets in this book (and yep, it’s the first of a series known as Dark Days — although the stories mostly take place at night) and doles them out like crumbs. This is going to work for her for a while, because I’ll be picking the books up to assuage my curiosity about what’s really going on and where all these people truly come from.
Nightwalker is written in an elegant style. The prose is easy to read and a pleasure to read. Drake does a good job of describing the people and the surroundings so that I felt like I’d stepped into those shadowed alleys, riotous vampire bars, and dusty tombs as well. The travel parts of the novel regarding the trip to Egypt were especially well written and I look forward to more of the same in later volumes. Mira has lived a long life and I would love to learn more about how she feels walking through lands she hasn’t seen in potentially hundreds of years. Drake has set her heroine up with past lives and past enemies that can prove to be interesting, as well as the ongoing war that’s just shaping up.
After I got about fifty pages into the book, there was simply no putting it down. I blazed through the story and had a great time. Readers wary of vampire and vampire hunter novels are encouraged to pick this one up and give it a go. There’s a lot here to sink your teeth into.
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