Book Review: Eyes of Ice by JC Andrijeski
- Kristen Lewendon
- Jul 31, 2019
- 2 min read
Vampire Detective Midnight Book 2
“Hey… you.” The man looked him over. “You fight? Right? You look like you do.” His lips thinned, his eyes on Nick’s chest and arms.
“A hundred thousand to fight. Twice that, if you win.”
Nick gets pulled into the world of underground boxing to support a friend, then to help another homicide detective solve a case.
Things get personal, fast, when Nick enters the fights himself, and puts himself in the sights of the killers, who appear to be targeting vampires, first draining them for blood and venom before extracting their hearts and tossing them outside the dome.
Nick is technically still suspended, but that doesn’t keep him out of the crosshairs with some of the biggest names of New York’s criminal underground.
Nor does it reassure his new girlfriend, who by now is convinced he has a death wish, or at the very least will do just about anything to avoid talking to her about what’s going on between the two of them.
Book #2 of the Vampire Detective Midnight series.
VAMPIRE DETECTIVE MIDNIGHT is a new romantic, science fiction and fantasy series set in a futuristic, dystopian New York populated by vampires, humans and psychics trying to rebuild their world after a devastating race war nearly obliterates the previous one.
A spinoff of the Quentin Black Mystery series, it features vampire with a past and homicide detective, Naoko “Nick” Tanaka, who gets transferred to the NYPD after a bad incident in Los Angeles forces him to start a new life. Nick works as a “Midnight,” or vampire in the employ of the human police department, but when he arrives in New York, he really just wants to be left alone to work, surf, and deal with his immortality in peace.
Life, and the residents of New York, clearly have other ideas.
My Review:
I am at a complete loss for words. This story sucked me in from the very first words. Heck! From the very first words of the teaser in the previous book. My only option was to hold on tight as I was taken for the ride of my life. I can’t even explain what my favorite parts of the parts of the book were since they’ll all land me firmly in spoiler territory. Suffice it to say, that while working to solve the case and fighting for his life, Nick uncovers some shocking revelations. The ending to this story has left me stunned and it will likely take me a while to recover. But when I do, I’ll be dying to know what happens next. I received a complimentary advanced copy of this book from the author.
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