And We’re Back To Supernatural Fiction
Next up on the list is a book that I read a few months back, when I was busy not updating this thing like I should have been. And it’s another urban fantasy book, big surprise there, isn’t it? Anyway, this one is called Nightlife by Rob Thruman and it’s actually really good. Here’s the back of the paperback and the cover.
“There are monsters among us. There always have been and there always will be. I’ve known that since I can remember, just like I’ve always known I was one…
…Well, half one, anyway.
Welcome to the Big Apple. There’s a troll under the Brooklyn Bridge, a boggle in Central Park, and a beautiful vampire in a penthouse on the Upper East Side–and that’s only the beginning. Of course, most humans are oblivious to the preternatural nightlife around them, but Cal Leandros is only half human.
His father’s dark lineage is the stuff of nightmares–and he and his entire otherworldly race are after Cal. Why? Cal hasn’t exactly wanted to stick around long enough to find out.
He and his half brother, Niko, have managed to stay a step ahead for four years, but now Cal’s dad has found them again. And Cal is about to learn why they want him, why they’ve always wanted him: He is the hey to unleashing their hell on earth. The fact of the human world will be decided in the fight of Cal’s life…”
Not exactly a step outside of my usual genre, is it? Oh well. Either way, it’s a great book. It’s written first person from Cal’s point of view and he’s sarcastic as hell, which ends up making the book itself quite funny as well. The ideas in the book are great, like the troll living under the Brooklyn Bridge, and the way the whole thing is put together is just fantastic. It’s definitely worth reading if you’re into this sort of thing.
