And vampires may the least of your troubles. A gritty dark world where darkness holds more dangers than you can count. I will definitely go on to the next book because the characters are all really cool, there’s lots of secrets unexposed, and while the main question of what’s being done with the children is answered…everyone isn’t safe yet.City of Light marks the start to a new post-apocalyptic series set in an interesting world that's survived a deadly 'race' war - humans pitted against 'shifters'. In fact, they felt distanced, and part of it was probably because the lover in this book is not the one she’s most attracted to (a shifter named Jonas who is part of a group trying to figure out the missing children and definitely has secrets of his own). I was not drawn into those scenes or her emotions related to those scenes as I was in her grief or guilt about the children.
There are some quite steamy scenes in this, and usually I appreciate them, but one of my complaints about this book is that while Tiger is great as a spy, she’s completely unconvincing as a lover. And there’s nothing hackneyed or boring about these versions of shifters and vampires. Like the fun you get playing a great role player game or watching adventure movies. Tiger spends a lot of the book arming herself with ghosts and guns, sneaking into various places, and performing reconnaissance on the inhabitants, battling ghosts, and marinating herself in grief for the past.īut the thing that is cool about this book is that the sneaking around bits, the use of flares and guns and ghosts that can sometimes manipulate the physical world are really cool. So when she hears the voice of a girl nearby at night, she risks her life to resuce the girl and becomes embroiled in a plot involving children, the mysterious rifts in time/space that haunt the outside world as a result of devastating bombs from the war, and rivals from her past. She has a thing about protecting children. Tiger is accompanied by two young dechet ghosts who died in her arms. She ventures out of the bunker at times, avoiding night and the mindless insatiability of the vampires, to scrounge food and parts from the lawless shanty town of Chaos attached to a more regimented city of walled Central. Dechets paid the cost and now Tiger believes she’s the only one left. We are plopped down into Tiger’s life of ghosts and loneliness, huddled away in an abandoned bunker that used to create and house dechets– the genetically modified humans with supernatural powers humans created out of desperation in a war against shifters. When multiple characters have the sense of entire novels of backstory, then I get intrigued. There’s a maturity to the world created here, and an imagination, quite outside of your usual run-of-the-mill vampire book or even post-apocalyptic book.
Goodreads tells me I’ve never read anything by Keri Arthur before…which…after reading City of Light I completely regret.
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