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Review by phoenmoon -- Nightlord: Sunset by Garon Whited
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3 out of 4 stars
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Nightlord: Sunset
Sunset book one of the Nightlord series is a vampire fantasy book written by Garon Whited.
It centers around the main character Eric (Who changes names throughout the book). For the most part, Erik is your typical average male. He has no remarkable qualities about him. Eric is average looking, makes an average salary as a teacher and moves through life not making any splashes. He is perfectly content with this until the day Christy the love of his life remarks she no longer loves him and that's that. No warnings and put as casually as if she is chatting about the color of her shoes.
Erik becomes emotionally in shock and does what any sensible man would do. Heads straight to the bar with a gang of his buddies and proceeds to get absolutely plastered. This continues to seem like an excellent idea until he begins to realize his life has started anew with one heck of a bang but he seems to of been left behind, as this new life of his takes off without him or his consent. He hopes it's just the hangover but part of him not so deep down knows this is not the case.
Life as he knew it is gone and anything he thought he knew about the world or himself are also gone. Luckily, Erik is quick of mind and even quicker on his feet as he tries to grasp what exactly is happening to him and these bazaar new situations he finds himself in. The only problem is as soon as he starts to get a grasp on everything murphy's law takes effect, and he is thrown right back on his butt to realize again he knows absolutely nothing about anything and anyone possibly able to help always seem to end up dead.
I was completely hooked within the first couple of pages of reading this book. I could tell right away that I was in love with Whited's writing style and sense of humor. On several occasions I found myself laughing and then having to find anyone nearby willing to listen to me as I read them lines or even paragraphs of the book that just tickled me to no end.
Thankfully I live in a household full of readers who did not mind me interrupting their daily lives to read them snippets.
As the book progressed the main character became more serious and the writing began to lose a lot of the humor that had so avidly drawn me in. By the time I was halfway through the book, the humor was mostly completely gone. I found this disappointing to say the least, but the story still held my attention, so I forgave it for the writing style change.
The story had a lot of unexpected changes that I highly approved of. I feel these plot deviations allowed the story to be very unique from all the other vampire books currently flooding the market. By no means can you say this book is unoriginal.
One of the only issues I had with Sunset, is Eric's change of character throughout the book. His stability and reactions borderline completely unbelievable. Particularly, in the beginning stages of the story. Towards the middle of the book the author sort of finds a way to explain why this is. It's not entirely solid but enough so that I accept the reasoning for the remainder of the book, but it doesn't cover or explain Eric's lackadaisical response to certain things in the begging of the book when in all fairness he really should have been losing his mind.
I do however very much like the author's view and explanation towards vampires and why they do what they do and act as they do. Whited's vampires have a lot of primary vampire traits strength, speed, power, blood drinking, etc. but they also have a few of the more supernatural traits you see popping up more and more such as magic and some ability to be in the sun.
All in all, I give this book a 3 out of 4 rating. I think it was extremely well written and you can tell Whited put a lot of thought and research into writing Nightlord: Sunset. I think had he managed to keep the same sharp humor he started the book with going throughout, it very easily could have been a 4 out of 4 and one of my top favorite books.
Again I can understand why it would have been hard to do but it most definitely would have set his book apart from all the others I have read.
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3 out of 4 stars
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Nightlord: Sunset
Sunset book one of the Nightlord series is a vampire fantasy book written by Garon Whited.
It centers around the main character Eric (Who changes names throughout the book). For the most part, Erik is your typical average male. He has no remarkable qualities about him. Eric is average looking, makes an average salary as a teacher and moves through life not making any splashes. He is perfectly content with this until the day Christy the love of his life remarks she no longer loves him and that's that. No warnings and put as casually as if she is chatting about the color of her shoes.
Erik becomes emotionally in shock and does what any sensible man would do. Heads straight to the bar with a gang of his buddies and proceeds to get absolutely plastered. This continues to seem like an excellent idea until he begins to realize his life has started anew with one heck of a bang but he seems to of been left behind, as this new life of his takes off without him or his consent. He hopes it's just the hangover but part of him not so deep down knows this is not the case.
Life as he knew it is gone and anything he thought he knew about the world or himself are also gone. Luckily, Erik is quick of mind and even quicker on his feet as he tries to grasp what exactly is happening to him and these bazaar new situations he finds himself in. The only problem is as soon as he starts to get a grasp on everything murphy's law takes effect, and he is thrown right back on his butt to realize again he knows absolutely nothing about anything and anyone possibly able to help always seem to end up dead.
I was completely hooked within the first couple of pages of reading this book. I could tell right away that I was in love with Whited's writing style and sense of humor. On several occasions I found myself laughing and then having to find anyone nearby willing to listen to me as I read them lines or even paragraphs of the book that just tickled me to no end.
Thankfully I live in a household full of readers who did not mind me interrupting their daily lives to read them snippets.
As the book progressed the main character became more serious and the writing began to lose a lot of the humor that had so avidly drawn me in. By the time I was halfway through the book, the humor was mostly completely gone. I found this disappointing to say the least, but the story still held my attention, so I forgave it for the writing style change.
The story had a lot of unexpected changes that I highly approved of. I feel these plot deviations allowed the story to be very unique from all the other vampire books currently flooding the market. By no means can you say this book is unoriginal.
One of the only issues I had with Sunset, is Eric's change of character throughout the book. His stability and reactions borderline completely unbelievable. Particularly, in the beginning stages of the story. Towards the middle of the book the author sort of finds a way to explain why this is. It's not entirely solid but enough so that I accept the reasoning for the remainder of the book, but it doesn't cover or explain Eric's lackadaisical response to certain things in the begging of the book when in all fairness he really should have been losing his mind.
I do however very much like the author's view and explanation towards vampires and why they do what they do and act as they do. Whited's vampires have a lot of primary vampire traits strength, speed, power, blood drinking, etc. but they also have a few of the more supernatural traits you see popping up more and more such as magic and some ability to be in the sun.
All in all, I give this book a 3 out of 4 rating. I think it was extremely well written and you can tell Whited put a lot of thought and research into writing Nightlord: Sunset. I think had he managed to keep the same sharp humor he started the book with going throughout, it very easily could have been a 4 out of 4 and one of my top favorite books.
Again I can understand why it would have been hard to do but it most definitely would have set his book apart from all the others I have read.
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