The Darkness Within

                As you may have noticed, my 'Non-fiction Saturday' was non-existent yesterday, and for good reason. I have mentioned I am working on a major series right now, and I won't resume the Saturday blogs until I am finished. I am working on L.J. Smith's Night World series, book 1 at the present time. The second novel in book 1 is called Daughters of Darkness, and for good reason.

                Three teens that are part of the most important vampire family in the Night World have run away from the Convent. They are not welcomed by a few stupid guys in town; they come to their new home to find their great-aunt has been staked, and some of her animals, mutilated. The girls are worried that something doesn't want them there, but they want to know who killed Aunt Opal.

                The three girls are Rowan, 19, Kestrel, 17, and Jade, 16, Redfern. Each of them has an extremely different personality. Rowan is smart, gentle and wise. She always knows what to say to make the situation more comfortable. Kestrel is sharp, wild and Fierce with the mind of a true Night person. Jade, however, is sweet and charming and she loves animals, even though she drinks their blood.

                The other main character is Mary-Lynnette Carter, a seventeen year old girl in the small town of Briar creek, where the sisters move into. Mary-Lynnette is suspicious of the girls at first, and while snooping on them with her brother Mark, who's in love with Jade, they catch the girls while they are feeding in the woods. There are only three choices for the Redfern girls: kill Mary-Lynnette and Mark, which Jade doesn't want, make them forget everything, which Rowan knows can’t happen, or do a blood-tie ceremony so they have to keep the secret of the sisters.

                While all of this is happening, Ash Redfern, their brother who you may recognize from the first novel, has been assigned to find them and bring them back. The only problem is that Mary-Lynnette has already met Ash, and it didn't go well; maybe too well. What happens in the woods, unfortunately, doesn't stay in the woods, but it becomes a deadly alignment that fuels a fire with s rouge night person with a malicious idea for the Redfern family and Mary-Lynnette.

RED'S ALL STAR REVIEW: 3 1/2 stars out of 5. I liked this one better because it had a mystery aspect and a catch-a-killer mentality that I enjoyed. Whereas the first novel was more a two way drama of right and wrong, this is a thrilling tale of how deadly the night world and all the members are.

MASS APPEAL: Same as the first novel; supernatural book fans, any fans of the Vampire Diaries, also by the wonderful L.J. Smith, or any mystery book fans who don't mind some fang action. 

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