Nightseer Review

Nightseer is Laurell K. Hamilton's debut novel. 1992 was the year it was first released.  Nightseer was originally supposed to be a series, but it never obtained much public interest. It is a supernatural alternate- reality novel.

I decided to give this novel a try, because I liked the first few novels of Anita Blake series, that I had already read  by Hamilton.  I did not like this novel. It really surprised me how much I did not like it. It was confusing. The beginning was confusing, the plot was confusing, and over half the time I kept thinking, "when is this going to get good." The funny thing was that the ending was the best part of the whole novel. It had humor, showed a different side of the characters, and it had something that I felt was missing in the rest of the novel.

Nightseer threw me into this world, with what felt like no preparation, no background. For some novels that works, with others not so much, and Nightseer was just one of those novels that it did not work for me. I would have liked more background and more information on the characters and the setting.

Romance, where to begin? The whole process that the 'romance'  developed was just not enough for me. I was confounded; by the fact that at the beginning, Keleios, the main character, hates Lothor, then in the middle, they are working together and slowly becoming friends, and finally, at the end, somehow they become more than friends. What? All of this happens in 303 pages. It was too much, with not a whole lot actually happening.

Nightseer, "her spellbinding debut novel," maybe not. Her debut novel, definitely. As for spellbinding, it could have been better. I can not say that I would particularly recommend this novel. I did not really enjoy reading this novel. It was confusing and bland. I do not know what it is, but there was just missing something for me.  I would recommend reading some of Hamilton's other novels. This was not her best.