Jamie is now an official member of Department 19, the
secret monster hunting wing of the government, and is starting to settle into
the non-stop grind of hunting monsters.
Paired with his vampire-turned-vampire-hunter girlfriend Larissa and
friend Kate, they’ve been given the toughest assignment imaginable: find and
destroy the resurrected Dracula before he regains his strength and takes over the
world.
This is one of my favorite action series on the
shelves. Will Hill is a maestro of hard
hitting action scenes. He does a great
job of making his purer than pure evil villains fun to hate and root against
and is great at switching POV and timelines.
We get chapters form the viewpoint of Dracula, Kate, Larissa (she's my favorite because she's tormented), our hero Jamie, and a couple of others
thrown in. This keeps twists and turns
coming aplenty and the book moving relatively briskly (parts of the middle
section gets a tad slow, but picks up again with a vengeance). It’s crazy how fast I tore through this brick
of a book. It’s nearly 600 pages but
reads so quickly with a just-one-more-chapter-and-then-I’ll-sleep appeal that’s
hard to resist. My only gripe is that the
characters aren’t all that interesting when they aren’t killing bad guys and
that our hero is way too perfect. When the bullets and stakes start flying and
the blood is pouring I oddly seem to forget all about it. A must read for any fan of action, fast paced
horror thrillers, or action horror. Darren
Shan fans might even have a new favorite author. I would read the first book before grabbing this one though, but that's just TWO awesome books you get to read.
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