"Vampires, bookstores, and Creeps... oh my!"
Reviewed by Debbie Wiley
Posted February 22, 2014
Fantasy Urban | New Adult
It all starts with a book....
Elly is determined to protect the ancient book from the
Creeps (supernatural creatures that eat humans) and she
knows only one person to run to for help. Little does she
expect to also find an almost-all-night bookstore owned by a
vampire willing to join in her fight- along with a whole
host of other supernatural good guys. The vampire, Val
McTeague, caters to the late night college crowd and offers
the perfect job for a vampire who loves books. Val has her
own reasons for hating the Creeps (also called Jackals), and
the mysterious book- and the powers it has- only increases
her disgust. Who will be the victor when the battle for the
powerful book starts?
Vampires, a bookstore, and a battle over an ancient book-
how could I not like NIGHT OWLS with that mixture? NIGHT
OWLS is the first book in a new urban fantasy series that
features a plethora of supernatural creatures as well as the
mysterious Brotherhood that fights evil. I love how Lauren
M. Roy takes such a mishmash of legends to craft her own
unique world- and the fact that books (and a bookstore)
feature so prominently only makes me love NIGHT OWLS more.
NIGHT OWLS is a dark, gritty urban fantasy and the battles
are not very pretty. The Creeps are one of the nastiest
supernatural baddies I've read about in a long time and I
couldn't help but cheer on Elly, Val, Chaz, and the rest of
the gang as they take on the Creeps. Chaz is perhaps my
favorite character in NIGHT OWLS as he is devoted and loyal,
even as he longs for what (and who) he cannot have. I can't
wait to see more of all of the characters as the series
develops further and I definitely want to know more about
Father Value's Brotherhood.
NIGHT OWLS is a great start to a new series and one that
urban fantasy fans should appreciate. Lauren M. Roy
successfully throws quite a bit of characters and world
building at the reader while whetting my appetite for more.
NIGHT OWLS is easily recommended!
SUMMARY
Night Owls bookstore is the one spot on campus open
late
enough to help out even the most practiced slacker. The
employees’ penchant for fighting the evil creatures of
the
night is just a perk… Valerie McTeague’s business model is simple: provide the
students of Edgewood College with a late-night study
haven
and stay as far away as possible from the underworld
conflicts of her vampire brethren. She’s experienced that
life, and the price she paid was far too high for her to
ever want to return. Elly Garrett hasn’t known any life except that of
fighting
the supernatural beings known as Creeps or Jackals. But
she
always had her mentor and foster father by her side—until
he
gave his life protecting a book that the Creeps
desperately
want to get their hands on. When the book gets stashed at Night Owls for safekeeping,
those Val holds nearest and dearest are put in mortal
peril.
Now Val and Elly will have to team up, along with a
mismatched crew of humans, vampires, and lesbian succubi,
to
stop the Jackals from getting their claws on the book and
unleashing unnamed horrors…
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