adunnells's review
dark
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
isabelalexander1998's review
4.0
I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would, however, it did annoy me a little that no matter how many times Bobby ran back to Dublin and his friends seemed uninterested in him, he still went back again! Also, I agree with many of the reviews I have read in that the story is nothing about what it says on the blurb, here I was, expecting a murder mystery and instead I end up with some story about a fourteen year old kid who has gone a bit off the rails. Don't get me wrong, I loved it, but it wasn't what I was expecting at all. The only reason it drops a star is that it was just a little bit unrealistic in the way Bobby kept on trying to run to Dublin and then when his mother went back there, he ran to Clare.
mnreece's review
2.0
As a kid, I LOVED Kate Thompson’s Switchers series. This story had a great premise and was definitely exciting but I felt like it needed 50-100 more pages to be excellent.
booksandbosox's review
2.0
http://librarianosnark.blogspot.com/2013/12/review-creature-of-night.html
djblock99's review
4.0
Bobby is a teenage thief who would rather jack cars in Dublin with his friends than "start over" in the countryside with his ma and younger brother, Dennis. Bobby is soon torn between competing desires to learn how to fix cars with a couple of local boys, and simply steal a car to return to his old life. Meanwhile, the ramshackle house they rent seems to be haunted.
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