Nightlife

 = Viking Readers Book Reviews  = =  = =Nightife=
 * by [|Rob Thurman], reviewed by Jessica A.**

**What makes this a great book? How do creativity, plot, characterization, setting,figurative language, or other features make this book one you'd recommend (or alternately one that you wouldn't recommend)?** ||

This is an amazing book. While the cover might make you think the book is about vampires and only about vampires, all types of supernatural creatures are shown within these pages. The main characters are half-brothers Niko and Cal Leandros. Running for their lives from nightmarish elfs, the brothers end up in New York, where almost everyone is not so human. Cal in fact is half monster, half human. Its been four years since the hunt for Cal began and the bond between the two brothers is unbreakable or so they thought. While the brothers never completly trust anyone they've meet quite a few poeple. A troll living under the Brooklyn Bridge, a mugger-eating boggle in Central Park, a beautiful vampire occupying a penthouse on the Upper East Side, a red haired teenage psychic, and thats only the beginning. Filled with sarcastic humor, twist and turns you wouldn't even expect, plus adrenaline-pumping action this book is one I find hard to put down. This is only the frist book by Thurman, but don't worry there are two other books in the series. But back to the novel at hand. The elfs or, as the brothers call them, grendels are after Cal. In fact they always have been, because Cal is the key to their plan of darkness. The fate of the world, of all our lives rests in Cal's hands. And he doesn't even know it...