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190 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 17, 2020
This book was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review. Thank you Annie Anderson!
Night Watch is the first book in the Soul Reader series and tells the story of Sloane and the night watch.
Annie Anderson has written some amazing books, and Soul Reader was definitely one of them. I really liked the story, it was really interesting and I had to know what was going to happen to Sloane. I really liked this book because it’s not something I’ve read before. I really liked the first book in Annie Anderson’s other series called Dead to Me, and I think it’s set in the same world. So if you enjoyed Dead to Me, you’ll love Night Watch too!
Sloane is such a funny and badass character. I’m not surprised because Annie Anderson’s female main characters are always funny and badass! I also really like the other characters in this book. The Night Watch group is a family of different supernatural beings and they are all such fun characters to read about. I cannot wait to get to know them better in the next book!
Night Watch was such a good Fantasy book packed with suspense, action and some romance! I really enjoyed reading this book, it was so fast paced and hard to put down. Night Watch also ended with a cliffhanger so I cannot wait to read the sequel Death Watch! Annie Anderson killed it again with this book!
Overall: 3/5
Plot and themes: 2/5
Characters: 3/5
Writing style: 2/5
Attention-grabbing: 3/5
Night Watch is the first in an urban fantasy series following the life of Sloane Cabot, a recently resurrected blood drinker who can't really seem to catch a break. First, she wakes up at the foot of her and her parents' grave with no memory of how she got there. Then she finds out that she requires blood to survive, which also is occasionally accompanied by the need to eat souls. And the supernatural police force also has a bounty on her head.
Not the worst book ever of course, but also a bit forgettable. The characters were fun but could have been developed more or given deeper backstories. I'm sure they have more in them but at this point I don't really know anything about any of them. While the vampire-ish thing was quirky, I'm not really understanding how her specific combo of parents makes her have fangs and need blood. I can sort of understand the soul eater thing, but where does the vampire part come in?
The romance is okay too, again not super memorable. She also has that vampire trait of inspiring complete devotion without being a vampire. It also just seems so convenient. You expect a certain degree of convenience with these novels but like the fact that she's been a hunter for a year and she just happened to kill the pack that killed this other vampire's kid and just happened to reveal that during the course of an argument? I just didn't like the things like that. So bottom line, not the worst but nothing special.