The fourth installment in Jacquelyn Frank’s Nightwalker series, Damien tells the tale of the Vampire Prince, Damien, and the lycanthrope princess, Syreena. The novel continues the story arc when Ruth, the renegade demon, kidnaps Syreena and Damien follows in hot pursuit. After the rescue, the two are left alone for a bit to heal and sparks begin to fly. Now they just have to decide if they want to try and make a relationship work and deal with the opinions of their different societies. All at the same time while trying to deal with Ruth’s antics.
Just like the previous three novels, Damien brings to life interesting characters and choices that each much make. The situations she throws them into are completely compatible to someone’s life that it humanizes what we would normally seen as paranormal and not necessarily rooted in reality.
Overall, I truly enjoyed this novel and it wasn’t a mistake buying it as soon as I saw that it was released. It’s definitely lived up to the previous three novel’s expectations and it even delivered in an area I never really thought of. Of all the vampire novels I have read, none of them ever come across as resembling close to the Stoker model. Dracula is the ultimate bad boy vampire and Frank gives a lot of these same characteristics to Damien. The transformation, the smoke & mirrors, the telepathy…it’s all reminiscent of the Count. The similarities between Dracula and Damien actually made for a nice change of pace where vampires are concerned. Damien was great and I can’t wait for Noah to come out in a couple of months. This is definitely a series worth the time and effort it would take to read them.
Read Order:
Jacob
Gideon
Elijah
Damien
Noah
