Paperback, 266 pages
Published August 2nd 2011 by Entangled Publishing
Source: Author for the purposes of an honest review
Genre: Paranormal Romance
ISBN 13: 9781937044138
Series: The Night, book 1
Stars: 3
Flames: 3
Night
Walker is told in the present with numerous snippets into Kate/Tala’s past
life with Calisto/Gregorio. This made for the sweetest love story. The readers
get to see Calisto fall in love twice. It also allows for the instant intense attraction
between Kate and Calisto to be completely plausible. Calisto gave up his mortality
after losing Tala. The man who made him into a Night Walker told him he would
have her again. After waiting for over two hundred years he gets that chance. He
can’t let this opportunity pass him by. Kate feels like has known Calisto all
of her life. She has no problem trusting this complete stranger. The only
problem is that Calisto is about to lose her to the same people that took her
from him once before.
The emotions in this book are
amazing. Kate and Calisto really have an eternal love. To have a chance to
regain a love lost. The reincarnation of Tala didn’t take away from the
individual that was Kate. I liked how that worked. Tala’s memories are like
distant to dreams to Kate. These memories and dreams never take over who this
present day Kate is. I also enjoyed how the author’s personal love for music
was woven into this story.
I loved Calisto. The fact that the
man seldom answers any question directly is awesome. The majority of the time
he answers questions with another question. Characters point out this
personality quirk and he still manages to waltz around the question. I also
like that as a Night Walker (vampire) he can live off of the blood of animals,
he can also take little drinks from humans and wipe their memories of the
encounter, yet he chooses to completely drain evil, vile, scum of the earth
humans. I also like the privacy respect that he showed towards his reincarnated
eternal love.
I liked that Kate was not your clichéd
heroine. She was not the tough gal who could take on anything. She was a
typical human, when life stressed her and gave her a difficult decision to make
she sought to change her surroundings. She got physically away from her
problems and sorted them out without having to be in the vicinity of the cause
of her troubles. Some might see this as running from a problem, but once she
had a handle on things she did go back to face the cause of the initial
problem. She just didn’t want to make any more rash decisions. She wanted to
think things through with all of the facts available.
My issues were the supporting
characters. They were small roles and they got into the way of an incredibly
sweet love story. Kate’s two closest friends are polar opposites. One is an
optimist the other is a pessimist. When Kate needs a friend to comfort her
after a horrible experience she calls on the pessimist. Even though this friend
is trying to give good sound advice Kate shuts her down with not wanting to be
lectured. Then there is bitchy Betty. She is career oriented, intelligent,
strong and very independent. Yet she manages to shack up with random bar guy
(evil monk) very quickly and never thinks twice about it. These are just minor issues
I had with characters that have very small roles in the whole of the book. This
would have easily been a 4 star read for me without these diversions.
Night
Demon book 2 is expected out in December. That is the only information I
have found on the next book in the series. Two different Night Walker’s are
mentioned in Night Walker though it
is not mentioned who the next book will be about. The very last paragraph leads
me to believe that the readers will see plenty more of Kate and Calisto. I will definitely continue reading this series. I am very curious about exactly what the last paragraph ment.
aahh I'm yet to read this! I got an ebook and just trying to finish the book I'm reading now so I can read this..
ReplyDeleteI met and interviewed Lisa and it was so fun! if you'd like to check it out, here it is: http://ariannecruz07.blogspot.com/2011/10/meeting-lisa-kessler.html
yeah, im confused on the second book's release.. in my interview, she said in the spring
ReplyDeleteThanks for the review! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you enjoyed Night Walker!
Night Demon will be out in the Spring and Calisto and Kate definitely play a part in the continuing story, but I can tell you that Lukas will be the main hero... :)
Lisa
Great review V!
ReplyDeleteI have this one but haven't read it yet (story of my TBR life)! I do love the names that Lisa uses!
I have been following this book and it is definitely on my wishlist. Thank you for sharing today.
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