I read Nightworld before I read any of the other Adversary Cycle books because that was the way I got them out of the Library. I love that book just the way it is! I honestly read the series backwards and when I bought the four originals, I almost didn't buy the Tomb because I liked it the least of all the books.
Part of my dislike was the ever annoying Gia and her "holier than thou" attituded. She was so self involved and seemed to love only Vicky but not half as much as she loved herself. She "looked down" on Jack but certainly used him when it suited her like when she needed to find Vicky's aunts and then protect Vicky herself from the Rakoshi.
I never understood what Jack saw in her, but then men don't always think clearly with their brains. Now remember this is the original Tomb and the original Nightworld I am talking about here.
I began reading the new "Jack" stories and was unsettled by the big changes. I know that the old scene from Nightworld where the Covair convertable top is slashed can't possibly happen because Jack no longer owns "Ralph". What a shame, I used to have a Covair and I could relate.
I truly don't like the "spear can have no branches" theme and I especially dislike the addition of the "Lady".
I want to see Glaeken as the noble but often weary warrior as he takes up the sword yet again to fight against Rasalom and the intrusion of the Otherness. I think one of the most poignant scenes in the original Nightworld is of Glaken striding back out into the world, again made imortal, with his red hair flying about his head and the sword that can kill Rasalom held high in his hand. He is truly the warrior to end all wars. Jack would just be a drab brown "everyman". The invisible Repairman he has always been. Jack fights in the dark all the while trying not to be seen or recognized. Glaeken fights in the light with the sun at his back. His strength and weaknesses are known to his enemy and he doesn't skulk in shadows.
Then there is the now imortal Glaeken sitting by his beloved Magda, crushed by her Alzeimer's Disease, but true to the love that has sustained them both for more than 50 years. He is gently feeding her.
And beneath their feet, in the apartment directly below, a young red-haired man with an ageless thirty-five-year-old body was spoon-feeding applesauce to the twisted, feebleminded woman he loved so dearly and had hoped to grow old with. (Nightworld - 1993)
I know there must be numerous changes in the story to fit the new background lines, but I am sad for this. I know I will read the last two books "The Dark AT The End" and the new version of "Nightworld" but I also know that I won't enjoy the new Nightworld as much as I did the original.