{"id":1476,"date":"2018-07-10T10:28:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2018-06-17T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T22:30:12","slug":"book-review-nightwalkers-by-keith-kekic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1476","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Nightwalkers by Keith Kekic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Damnation Books, 2010<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISBN: \u00a09781615720798<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Available: \u00a0Used and New<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Written from the viewpoint of the main character,\u00a0<em>Nightwalkers<\/em>\u00a0tells the story of a teenage boy who has lost his parents and is living with an aunt he dislikes. \u00a0Loneliness surrounds him and practically consumes him. \u00a0He finds some relief from this sad life by going out into the darkness of the night and walking. \u00a0One night, he runs into a girl he is instantly attracted to, but does not find out her name. \u00a0She only tells him that if he returns the following night, he will find her once again. \u00a0This causes him to start going out every night, and eventually he meets others that he comes to know as the &#8220;Nightwalkers&#8221;. \u00a0Here, in this &#8220;other world&#8221; he finally finds that he can fit in, but is it a real or imaginary world?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Nightwalkers<\/em>\u00a0was a very hard read for me, and honestly, I only ended up reading half of the novel. \u00a0Page after page, I stumbled upon typos; either misspelled words or words left out of a sentence completely. \u00a0I can forgive a few typos throughout a book, but the frequency within Nightwalkers really distracted me from the story. \u00a0I was hoping that the storyline itself would keep me involved enough that I could glance over these errors, but unfortunately I found the story dull and lacking as well. \u00a0It seemed like there was potential for a great story with Kekic&#8217;s idea, but it fell short somewhere. \u00a0Maybe things picked up in the second half of the book, but I don&#8217;t plan on picking it back up to find out. \u00a0Others may read this book up and enjoy it from cover to cover, but for me it was a struggle to read it as far as I did.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0If given another round or two through the editing stage, it might be worth picking up, but if the first edition is the only one available, I&#8217;d pass it by for one of many other great horror books out there today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contains: \u00a0Adult Language, Adult Situations, Violence<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reviewed by: \u00a0Rhonda Wilson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damnation Books, 2010 ISBN: \u00a09781615720798 Available: \u00a0Used and New Written from the viewpoint of the main character,\u00a0Nightwalkers\u00a0tells the story of a teenage boy who has lost his parents and is living with an aunt he dislikes. \u00a0Loneliness surrounds him and practically consumes him. \u00a0He finds some relief from this sad life by going out into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-nO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}