Just Finished Reading: Nightlife by Rob Thurman

Cal & his brother Niko are on the run in New York. They’re not running from the authorities though. If only it was that simple. For four years the brothers have been running from the Auphe – creatures out of millennia of human nightmare. Their target is Cal, a human-Auphe hybrid bred specifically to open a doorway and bring humanity to its knees. It’s only a matter of time before the Auphe find them and then hell will literary break loose!

This was obviously Thurman’s first book. It had that feel to it. The author was both trying too hard by throwing in everything including the kitchen sink (presumably not knowing if he was ever going to get another book published) as well as producing some very unbelievable characters and situations.

It wasn’t all bad however. Some of the dialogue was snappy; some of the jokes were actually funny and he had a reasonable feel for the visualisation of various locations. It was readable but dragged a bit in places especially towards the end (which didn’t make a whole lot of sense). Over all this book was a very average affair. I do hope he gets better though – as I’ve already bought the sequel!