Stay Dark

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Private Investigator and Vampire (aka Dweller) Neve Traxon doesn’t kill people to drink blood. One night she stops an attack but the man she saved was a serial killer. On the hunt to rectify her mistake, Neve crosses paths with Detective Marek Kaiden, and draws the attention of the underground vampire faction, Infinity. Neve’s solitary existence is turned upside down, will she be able to catch her killer and avoid these newly arisen threats. 

I like reading fantasy books and I like reading police procedural crime fiction so the blend of them both together meant Stay Dark was the perfect pick for me. Neve has an interesting backstory, with questions to uncover surrounding her creation and the solitary existence since. The supernatural elements of the storyline were interesting, playing on the usual expectations of vampires living in secrets and the shadows but I liked the idea of them being called Dwellers, and the suggested future goal of living alongside humans.

Detective Marek Kaiden was also an interesting character but as the story developed the mystery element took a bit of a back seat so I feel I didn’t quite get to know him as well as we perhaps could have. As this is the first book in the series there is time for the characters to develop in future books. 

There were twists I didn’t see coming and I think that this is a well paced start to the Web of Dwellers urban fantasy series.

Charlotte Walker, A LoveReading Ambassador

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