Nightwalker review

Nightwalker is written by Jocelynn Drake. It is the first in the Dark Days series.  It is an apocalypse supernatural series.  This novel enthralled me and captured my attention from the beginning of the novel.

This novel has various supernatural species in it that coexist with humans in secrecy. The nightwalkers or vampires, the shape shifters, warlocks, and the naturi are all supernatural creatures present in this novel. The naturi is a race that has been mostly locked away in another dimension, but now those still on earth gathered together in hopes to open the “gates” that would allow the rest of their race to join them on earth. They were locked in another dimension for enslaving the shape shifters and for trying to destroy all the humans and nightwalkers. The naturi are supernatural creatures with powers over the earth and fire.

The novel is incredibly descriptive.  The author uses this description to create a dark supernatural world with deadly politics and even deadlier enemies. This dark world allows for the main characters to become dangerous, mysterious, and incredibly fierce, more so than they would have in a different plotline.  It also allows the main character, Mira, to become more outspoken and involved in the politics of her kind.

The relationship between Mira, the nightwalker, and Danaus, the vampire hunter, is fascinating. They originally start out to be defined as enemies and then shortly after they have to become partners to stop the naturi.  Danaus believes that all nightwalkers are monsters and Mira continually tells him and shows him things that contradict his long time held beliefs. One of Danaus’s beliefs was that nightwalkers had to kill to feed but Mira explains to him that the majority of the nightwalkers do not kill their “food”.  Danaus makes many mistakes with Mira when trying to work with her and he starts to really understand that she is as much of a person as a human.  They start to become friends towards the end of the novel.

Mira is the main character of this novel and it is written from her point of view in first person. Mira is called the firestarter by those of her species. She can control and manipulate fire, which makes her incredibly dangerous to her kind as they are vulnerable to fire.  In Nightwalker, you start to learn about Mira’s painful past and discover that Mira has been deeply betrayed by some of the people she trusted. Mira’s need to make Danaus realize that she and those of her species are people, doing what they need to for survival.  Mira is a emotionally realistic character.

Nightwalker is an amazing supernatural fantasy novel.  The dangerous and dark world is captivating.  Its characters are just as alluring.  The author, Drake, created the perfect first novel to a great series.