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Aug 13, 2008

Julie (jjmachshev) rated it:

An intricate work that's stunningly complex and compelling. Once I picked "Nightwalker" up, I couldn't put down Jocelynn Drake's tale that (hopefully) is just the start of a series about an alternate reality existing in today's world. This is a dark urban fantasy. It's not a romance even though it has some romantic elements. Even though I finished reading "Nightwalker" a few hours ago, I'm still having difficulty extracting myself from Ms Drake's world.

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Jan 30, 2012

Erin rated it:

This book was so good and super refreshing because lately I've read a bunch of books that suck! I love the powerful, seductive, sarcastic, fire starting vampire heroine, Mira. Mira kicks all kinds of ass and is pretty fucking ruthless, but she has her own set of morals and a sense of honor that she sticks to and fights for no matter the cost. I loved the tone and the dark gritty feel to this book, the writing style had me totally submerged in the story and the emotions of the characters without More...

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Feb 25, 2010

Cher rated it:

I really tried to get into this book, but it seemed to borrow every single cliche from every vampire TV show out there. The twist is that everything is from the POV of a 603yo flame-haired female vampire kicking bootie in her leather catsuit.

The main reason this book didn't grab me was that it was primarily told in lusty action scenes, with the main character's conflicts and history lodged in paragraphs between. Since the 603yo vamp lady was pretty much invincible, there wasn't any t More...

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Jan 16, 2012

MISS VAIN rated it:

"So I thought, " I murmured. I started to lift my leg from his lap when Danaus grabbed my calf with his right hand, holding me in place. His touch was warmer than I'd expected, almost burning through my leather pants. Shocked by his sudden willingness to touch me, I went completely still. Turning his head to look at me, my lips brushedhis cheek and we both froze. Danaus exhaled slowly and I found myself drawing in his breathe, holding it inside me. If one of us moved less than an i
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Jul 29, 2008

Perri rated it:

This is what happens when you buy books at Wal-Mart.

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Apr 17, 2011

slayra rated it:

Mira é uma "nightwalker"... ou seja, Mira é basicamente uma vampira, mas tem um nome mais exótico. Ou não.

Ahem. Recomeçando. Mira é uma vampira com precisamente 603 anos de idade. Mas Mira não é uma vampira qualquer... não! Mira tem um estranho poder que impõe respeito no meio da sua comunidade: ela não só pode controlar o fogo, como é imune a esta forma tão tradicional de matar vampiros. É por isso que há séculos que Mira é a vampira-chefe da sua comunidade em Savannah, US More...

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Jun 30, 2008

Geoff rated it:

Vampire Fiction is a fairly well explored genre. With such heavyweights as Ann Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton, Kim Harrison and Charlene Harris each 'staking' their space in the genre it's difficult to imagine a lot of room for another author to get a significant piece of the Vampire pie. Jocelynn Drake's Nightwalker tries to squeeze in to this packed genre with a book that falls somewhere between Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter and Meredith Gentry Faerie series. Drake has a nice fla More...

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Aug 10, 2011

Stella rated it:

I'm still under its spell. Jocelynn Drake's writing style is simply amazing, her descriptions are evocative and poetic, she is a true writer! Another series I will have to add to my TBR list!

Nightwalker is the first novel in Jocelynn Drake's Dark Days urban fantasy series, and despite the fact that at the beginning I could only progress slowly, that didn't keep me from falling in love with Jocelynn Drake's poetic writing. So persevere, because after the initial 80-90 pages the novel' More...

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Feb 08, 2012

Felicia rated it:

This was a really interesting book, I enjoyed it for many reasons, most of which it doesn't read like all the other Urban Fantasy out there. The lead female protagonist doesn't have self-esteem problems, doesn't apologize for being a badass, she has problems that are totally justifiable and there's some extremely interesting world building here.

We're talking Vampires of course, but for once they aren't the top of the food chain, it's the naturii (a hybrid of elves and faerie lore) t More...

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Jan 11, 2012

Sarah rated it:

Nightwalker was originally published in 2008, and I am very happy that there are several more books in the series, because this was a great read. The heroine/protagonist is Mira, a 600 year old vampire who is unique among humans and vampires because she can start and control fire. Mira is living in Savannah as Keeper of the City, a position she enjoys for the relative peace after centuries of politics and power struggles among the Ancients in the Old World. But the vampire hunter Danaus has a More...

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Dec 28, 2011

Fangs for the Fantasy rated it:

Though this book was written in the first person, a style I really don't prefer for a story, it had a very large world. Drake takes care to include lycanthropes, vampires, witches/warlocks and the fae. The fae in this story are called the naturi and as a group from the antagonist, though they are split into several different clans like animal, and earth for instance. Nightwalker is essentially the story of an ongoing war between the fae and all other supernatural creatures. The fae have the More...

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Oct 19, 2011

Sheyla rated it:

Mira is a Nightwalker, a 600 year old vampire who can manipulate fire. She is the Keeper of Savannah. She has made this city her home. She maintains the peace between other Nightwalkers and Lycanthropes. Much to her annoyance a slayer has been killing inside her keep. She meets the vampire hunter Danaus who surprisingly is not there to try to kill her but needs her help with a worse evil.
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Sep 19, 2011

Kate Strawberry rated it:

I really did not enjoy the first half of this book. The second half was decent, but more because I got used to the issues I had with the first half than because it was actually that much better.

The premise of the story sounds original, but replace naturi with fae and nightwalkers with vampires, and it's not particularly. The plot was actually reasonably interesting, but my interest in it was overwhelmed by other things annoying me.

First, Mira acted very young, which would More...

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Apr 13, 2011

Jen rated it:

Jocelynn Drake has created a dark and fascinating new vampire world with this first installment in her Dark Days series. It features Mira, a 600 year old nightwalker. She is special among her people because she can wield fire and is impervious to its effects. She lives in Savannah and serves as the de facto head-vampire in the United States. As our book opens, there is a mysterious vampire hunter in her territory. She is fascinated by the man and finally meets up with him. She realizes that ther More...

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Dec 05, 2010

Robin rated it:

I was reluctant to read this at first because of the title. Since 'nightwalker' is another word for 'prostitute', I was worried it would be another porn novel by some middle-aged woman in America trying to make herself money. Turns out there wasn't all that much sex, which is good.

We are introduced to the main character, Myra, and her wierd power very early on. And there is no beating-about-the-bush about it either. She's a vampire that can make fire, which is pretty cool since they More...

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Aug 29, 2010

Monica rated it:

I recently got the fifth book in this series and decided I need to start from the beginning of the series in order to truly appreciate book five. So…that is why I started this book and I was very very glad that I did. This book has that kick-ass, high speed action, thrill-ride feel. I couldn’t put it down from page one. I was actually quite surprised and amazed at how much I enjoyed this book.

I enjoyed the characters of this book immensely. They are all very vibrant and the type of cha More...

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Aug 22, 2010

Ann aka Iftcan rated it:

surprisingly good for a "first book of a series." As most people do, I tend to give a first book a good bit of lee-way, since the author always has so much world building to do, as well as introducing the main characters, having to have a plot etc. With this one Drake has done an excellent job. The world building isn't laid on quite as heavy as with some series, but it is still fairly heavy. There are twists upon twists upon twists. A bit of mystery to keep things interesting and More...

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Aug 17, 2010

Tynga rated it:

Before getting to the core of my review, I think some definitions are required. All the quotes are from Jocelynn's website.

Nightwalkers: “Folklore has called them Nosferatu, Langsuir, Strigae, Upir, the undead, and finally, Vampire, but among their own kind, they are simply known as Nightwalkers. Humans by birth, nightwalkers are created when a nightwalker of significant age takes a human past the edge of death and brings him or her back with an infusion of nightwalker blood.
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Dec 13, 2009

Kiki rated it:

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Nov 26, 2009

Ailsa rated it:

I’ve lent my copy of Nightwalker to a friend at the moment, so I hope this review is still ok!

Nightwalker begins with Mira stalking Danaus through Savana, her city. You see straight away how skilled a hunter she is, and her feisty personality come through very strongly. Very quickly, Mira is forced to postpone Danaus’s death and trust him as he shows her an enemy from her past who she thought was long dead. The feared Naturi are back. Mira and Danaus must head to Egypt to warn vampir More...

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Jun 10, 2009

Jocelyn rated it:

All the bad things about Anne Rice without any of the lovely descriptive passages that make her work worth reading. The whole book was introduction of new character after introduction of new character, with nothing really happening until the last 20 pages. In addition, the fight scenes were weak - no one did anything that would actually harm another person physically aside from magic (and the majority of the fighting was hand-to-hand or hand-to-sharp-object). At one point, the heroine protect More...

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May 20, 2009

Jacqie rated it:

I dip into urban fantasy here and there and definitely have my favorites: Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Kim Harrison. Recently discovered Jeaniene Frost. So I'm always looking for another good author in that genre-God knows there are enough bad ones.
I may have jumped too quickly with this author- I saw her second book and ended up buying that one and her first one too- Nightwalker. That'll teach me to buy two books in a series without having read the first one.

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May 07, 2009

Brooke rated it:

Mira is unique among her fellow vampire Nightwalkers, because she has the ability to control the element of fire. The Naturi, are an ancient race, and are an enemy of humans and vampires that have come back to finish what they started centuries ago, which is making the human and vampire races extinct. Danaus, a vampire-hunter, shows up in Mira's sector in an attempt to get her help in stopping the Naturi. The first time Mira went up against the Naturi is a memory that has been locked away inside More...

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Apr 15, 2009

Sabrina rated it:

This book was given to me while I was bored at work, looking for something to read while I sat on the phone all day. With that said, I'm just glad I didn't spend any money on it.

This is the point where you ask, "Why, Sabrina... you sound bitter, as if you didn't really like this book at all. Why on Earth did you give it three stars?"

Well, dear... I gave it three stars, because yes, I did like it. I wouldn't have kept reading the thing every day had I thought it More...

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Feb 07, 2009

Rhianna rated it:

Nightwalker, the first Dark Days series novel, is the debut of author Jocelynn Drake. With acknowledgements to Kim Harrison and Rachel Vincent it should be no surprise that this book falls into the vein of such juicy paranormal fantasy fare of Harrison's Hollows series and Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake.

The dark days are coming and Mira is the kick-butt heroine taking on the world. A vampire enforcer, the guardian of her U.S. domain, she is the one the nightwalkers call the Fire More...

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Aug 05, 2009

Schnaucl rated it:

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Jan 28, 2012

Felicia rated it:

Publisher: Eos
Purchased: Bought on Amazon

What I Loved: The story was unique: Nightwalker than can harness fire having to team up with a Nightwalker Hunter. Then you add a 3rd element of something bigger and badder than either knows for sure how to get rid of permanently and it makes for a pretty kick butt ride.

What I Liked: The different locations really added a beautiful element to this story. Each one seemed to "fit" the Nightwalker that was introduced and More...

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Jul 13, 2010

jD rated it:

I really liked this book. The vampire, human, fae tribulations take on a new life under the pen of Jocelynn Drake. I would not call this a romance, at least not this first book. The main character Mira is a vampire that is able to create and control fire. This is an unusual skillset for the vampires of this series. The fae are powerful, cruel, and homicidal. Werewolves are introduced but not in great detail because they were not needed as much for this first novel. There are plenty of mag More...

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Jan 26, 2012

Erin rated it:

I started this series because I really loved the Fever series and wanted something similar but not the same necessarily. I lurked on a discussion forum and got this series as an idea and the first book was .99 on the Nook (HELLO, yes please!). Can I just say I finished it in less than 24 hours, put the next 2 books on hold from my local library, and was sad that I couldn't start the next one right away so....I.....sulked.

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Nov 24, 2009

Lesley rated it:

Well, in a sleepy and braindead moment I grabbed this from the GINORMOUS stack of (boxes of) books that I got from Breanna (they used to belong to her mom, and they wanted them out of the house. I was happy to oblige).

As random selections go, it wasn't too bad. It was of the currently sweepingly-popular urban fantasy genre - starring vampires. SO. I tend to have a problem with this genre, in that it is done TO DEATH. No pun intended, although I guess it's appropriate. One tends to f More...

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