Nocturnal Book Reviews

3.5/5
Oh My God, this is such a boyish book! Gadgets and explosions aplenty, gore, combat and bullets, monsters and manly talk... You name it, it's there.

I did surprise myself by really enjoying it. Honestly, I was fully prepared to dislike this book, and yet, this was such a curious mix of history and present that I got sucked right in into this violent joyride.

Why lower rating then? This book has unrealistic male to female ratio. Here is this huge Department 19 and not one operative is a woman. They all Seal type tough macho men... You are telling me that with all the founding families not even one generation suffered from lack of male successors or let a daughter in especially in the last 50 years of female emancipation? This is not only unrealistic, it's offensive.

Jamie turns out to be some kind of a prodigy child, he's got an innate talent with the weapons and great instincts, that let him ace his test after only 24 hours of training. Nope. Not buying that either.

There is a total sum of three girls in this book: Jamie's mother who waits for him to save her from vampires, Larissa, a young vampire who is sent to kill him, but suddenly develops romantic feelings for him strong enough to risk her life for the boy (yeah, they do talk for a few hours in total. I guess that was enough for insta-love); and a girl in the end whom he and Larissa save. That's it. Nice, huh?

This is what I mean by boyish book. It irritated the hell out of me, but hey the villains are awesome, the gadgets are cool and a teen saves the world again. Really good potential for a decent series.