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Fiction Review by The Gravedigger
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04.24.07
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This is an unexpected (at least for me) sequel to the author's landmark vampire novel LIVE GIRLS, with the focus on Davey Owen and his wife, survivors - and now vampires---from that book.
It's almost twenty-years after the events in New York City, when a vampire strip club - and the existence of vampires - was almost exposed to the public. But vampires, particularly the 'Brutals', desire to keep their awareness to others out of the loop.
In Los Angeles, a famous horror book writer hires two detectives from two different agencies to investigate those same vampires - and the investigators take on the job only because the guy is paying them an obscene amount of money. But they soon discover that they do exist - and that they've been spied on by the bad vampires, who now wish to kill them.
They eventually unite with Davey and Casey Owens, who agree to help them expose the evil bloodsuckers, although it may be to their personal detriment. When the two women are kidnapped and held in a building owned by a powerful vampire the two men have to somehow get them out alive. But first, they have to make their way through the sewers, past the mutant vampires that are kept below.
NIGHT LIFE isn't the most original title (I can think of at least four horror movies and three other novels that have that same title) and the book is different than the first, in a good way. It also presents the possibility of this as an ongoing series (such as with Richard Laymon's BEAST HOUSE books), which I would definitely read.
Available from www.dorchesterpub.com
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - votes cast total
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