A review by krissynicole1013
Children of the Night, by Dan Simmons
3.0
Summer of Night is one of my favorite books. I also really enjoyed A Winter Haunting. Children of the Night is my least favorite of this series. You do not need to have read either of these books to enjoy this one.
Simmons is Simmons. He is very well researched and an excellent writer and these things carried this novel. Like Carrion Comfort, this book straddles a line between horror and spy fiction. There is a little too much globe trotting and a few too many chase scenes for my taste. It left me worn out and happy to reach its conclusion.
Kat was one of the more unbelievable characters I’ve read by Simmons and the infiltration scenes were a bit too fantastical, even for a book about vampires that rule the world. I was a bit baffled that a desperate woman in search of her missing child would be so horny all of the time, but she is attracted to just about every man she meets.
Not my favorite vampire book.
Simmons is Simmons. He is very well researched and an excellent writer and these things carried this novel. Like Carrion Comfort, this book straddles a line between horror and spy fiction. There is a little too much globe trotting and a few too many chase scenes for my taste. It left me worn out and happy to reach its conclusion.
Kat was one of the more unbelievable characters I’ve read by Simmons and the infiltration scenes were a bit too fantastical, even for a book about vampires that rule the world. I was a bit baffled that a desperate woman in search of her missing child would be so horny all of the time, but she is attracted to just about every man she meets.
Not my favorite vampire book.