4-29-13-I'm still reading it, but if you're an ebook fan, the series is going for 99cents a book for the Kindle version with the Kindle audio companion at less than $3 each.

Great prices.

Very promising start but ultimately wasn't able to fulfill any of the premises.
There were quite a few direct contradictions of supernatural mechanics that had been explicitly explained previously.
All the writing seemed to get more and more sloppy and lazy the further I read.
The power level of the MC is very inconsistent and very obviously adjusts with the plot's needs.
Plot convenience in general is a huge issue, especially beyond 50%.
The pacing is a mess and caused me to be bored in slow-moving sections as well as in endless stretches of action.

Overall, good concept, interesting premise, bad execution. ( )

This was overall good, but after reading the Sabina Kane series and The Hollows series to see another red head kind of in both worlds of two races who hate each other and blablablabla.... Well, anyway, if you like UF series with a female protagonist, vampires, magic and all that good stuff go ahead, it's a great read and I'll be starting the next book very soon. If you would like maybe something a little different, checkout "the disillusionists" series by Carolyn Crane. ( )

This is the first book in the Dark Days series by Drake. There are six books in this series. This is a pretty typical vampire urban fantasy read. I listened to the first 80% of the book on audiobook and then realized I was dreading listening to it each time I got in the car so I decided to stop.

I listened to this on audiobook and the narration was okay but not great. The narrator did a good job on women’s voices, but male characters sounded awkward and over-characterized. In general the narrator was a bit stiff sounding as well. This is one I wouldn’t necessarily recommend listening to on audiobook.

The premise of the story is that Mira, a Nightwalker/vampire, runs into a Hunter named Danaus in her territory. However, Danaus isn’t the real issue here...the real problem is the the Naturi, a centuries old race that uses nature magic that was supposed to be extinct. Suddenly Mira is drawn back into an age old war between the Nightwalkers and the Naturi.

I didn't like the characters all that much, thought the plot was overly simplistic and boring, and also thought the dialogue was poorly done. There really wasn’t anything I liked in this book.

Mira’s character bothered me, she is supposed to be 600 years old but she acts really immature and short-sighted a lot of the time. Danaus is kind of intriguing but mostly just seems to follow Mira from place to place. The side characters were single dimensional and not well done.

The plot was very straight-forward and predictable. I kept waiting for some more interesting plot elements to be added but they never were.

Overall this wasn’t the worst vampire based UF I have ever read; however I liked it even less than I liked the first book in Drake's “Asylum Tales” (Angel's Ink). I have learned that Drake just isn't an author I like reading; for me there are much better UF authors out there. ( )

I was lucky enough to catch this book when it popped up for $0.99 on Kindle, and since I'd been wanting to pick up the series for ages, I figured I'd give it a try. At first I worried that it was going to be just another vampire book, but it really is not. There is some of the standard vampire lore, but there are enough variants to give this book a unique feel. I will admit that I felt there were times when the book dragged a bit, but I was curious enough about the characters that I pushed through and was rewarded. I definitely plan to pick up book 2 and am hopeful that I will enjoy it. ( )