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Chronicles of Nick #1 (Dark Hunter)
At 14, Nick Gautier is an average kid who gets bullied at school and has some shady friends. But on the night he refuses to mug an innocent tourist, his friends turn on him. Only a stranger stepping in prevents them from killing him. Kyrian Hunter introduces Nick to a world that he never imagined, not just the kind of wealth and lifestyle Nick finds it hard to believe, but also a whole supernatural world that Nick has never noticed even though it's been under his nose all his life. With new enemies who make his old ones look like wimps, Nick must either shape up or be killed.
But Nick has his own demons - literally - as it turns out that he's not just the human teen that he seems to be, and neither are his friends and classmates. Between his pole-dancing overprotective mother and his killer father - now in jail - Nick is a good kid in a bad place. Everything is pushing him towards his dark side except for the mysterious Ambrose who may or may not be trustworthy and a mysterious new girlfriend, Kody, who Nick really shouldn't take at face value.
The book's plot-bunny is pretty dumb. One of Nick's schoolmates writes code for a computer game that turns all who play it into living zombies. With people who were once his friends now trying to eat his brains, Nick and the few people he can call friends - weirdos or demons all - have to figure out how to stop the zombie threat.
When the chips are down, Kyrian Hunter seems to fade into the background.
This is a world of vampires, daemons, shapechangers, Greek gods and immortals. They're all thrown into the mix in dizzying proportions with little explanation. The pace is fast a and furious - quite literally. This is the first book in Nick's own series, but set in the well established universe of the Dark Hunters, soulless vampire killers with problems of their own. So many characters come tumbling out of the pages of this book that as a new reader you suspect that they are already established characters making a guest appearance in this book. They are mostly flat-packcharacters and many are no more than a name. I have read one Dark Hunter novel, with Kyrian IIRC, but it's a long time ago before I started book-logging so I don't remember details. It maybe says something about the book that I don't appear to have kept it. Racy is the word that sticks in my head. Not that I'm against racy novels as such, but I seem to recall it was more steamy sex than story. This, however, seems firmly aimed at young teens, so it's maybe an attempt to broaden the audience for the DH series or an attempt to capture the Twilight readership.
At some future point I guess Nick's story will intersect with the established Dark Hunter series where I think, we will find an older version of Nick as an established character.
Chronicles of Nick #1 (Dark Hunter)
At 14, Nick Gautier is an average kid who gets bullied at school and has some shady friends. But on the night he refuses to mug an innocent tourist, his friends turn on him. Only a stranger stepping in prevents them from killing him. Kyrian Hunter introduces Nick to a world that he never imagined, not just the kind of wealth and lifestyle Nick finds it hard to believe, but also a whole supernatural world that Nick has never noticed even though it's been under his nose all his life. With new enemies who make his old ones look like wimps, Nick must either shape up or be killed.
But Nick has his own demons - literally - as it turns out that he's not just the human teen that he seems to be, and neither are his friends and classmates. Between his pole-dancing overprotective mother and his killer father - now in jail - Nick is a good kid in a bad place. Everything is pushing him towards his dark side except for the mysterious Ambrose who may or may not be trustworthy and a mysterious new girlfriend, Kody, who Nick really shouldn't take at face value.
The book's plot-bunny is pretty dumb. One of Nick's schoolmates writes code for a computer game that turns all who play it into living zombies. With people who were once his friends now trying to eat his brains, Nick and the few people he can call friends - weirdos or demons all - have to figure out how to stop the zombie threat.
When the chips are down, Kyrian Hunter seems to fade into the background.
This is a world of vampires, daemons, shapechangers, Greek gods and immortals. They're all thrown into the mix in dizzying proportions with little explanation. The pace is fast a and furious - quite literally. This is the first book in Nick's own series, but set in the well established universe of the Dark Hunters, soulless vampire killers with problems of their own. So many characters come tumbling out of the pages of this book that as a new reader you suspect that they are already established characters making a guest appearance in this book. They are mostly flat-packcharacters and many are no more than a name. I have read one Dark Hunter novel, with Kyrian IIRC, but it's a long time ago before I started book-logging so I don't remember details. It maybe says something about the book that I don't appear to have kept it. Racy is the word that sticks in my head. Not that I'm against racy novels as such, but I seem to recall it was more steamy sex than story. This, however, seems firmly aimed at young teens, so it's maybe an attempt to broaden the audience for the DH series or an attempt to capture the Twilight readership.
At some future point I guess Nick's story will intersect with the established Dark Hunter series where I think, we will find an older version of Nick as an established character.
