Nightlord: Sunset by Garon Whited

Nightlord: Sunset, by Garon Whited begins shrouded in mystery. Eric, a university science teacher,  awakens in a strange place, and finds that it’s the bed of a very beautiful woman named Sasha. From the looks of the room, he can tell they had a great night, but he was intoxicated, and has no memory of it. Throughout his visit with Sasha, Eric learns that she has turned him into a vampire of sorts, and he stays with her to begin his change. The change isn’t easy. It takes many days, a ton of food, and a physical transformation which Eric narrates by way of journal entries.

Eric turns into a lover and an apprentice of Sasha. Sasha teaches him how to handle the change each morning and night, and she teaches him how to feed off of people’s spirits and souls. Eric and Sasha are a different type of vampire, not your typical Bram Stroker’s or Dracula. They die at night and come back to life each morning, in what can be a painful process. Like all vampires, they need to feed. Their favorite feeding grounds include night clubs, country clubs, and hospitals where they taste the essence of their victims before leaving their bodies depleted of life. Things are going great for Sasha and Eric, until they realize they are being hunted from another dimension.

Their enemies are from The Church of Light, who eventually kill Sasha. Eric is then left to avenge her death with the magic she has taught him, a few new acquaintances, a powerful sword, and a horse named Bronze . On this epic journey of sorts, Eric accomplishes more than he ever dreamed possible, and he realizes he is more than he once thought. It is interesting for the reader to see if he can overcome the obstacles in his way.

Nightlord: Sunset is over 650 pages of fantasy, magic, and science and is the first of more books in the series by Whited. The book starts out slowly, but picks up halfway through. Due to the length of the first book, moving on to the second may be a challenge for readers who were not totally enamored with the story line. Readers who are searching for a different kind of fantasy, an intensely dangerous journey, and a little bit of romance may like Nightlord: Sunset, but the overall length and the typos make moving on in the series difficult.

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