I have never read the ealier version of Nightworld. I didn't want to spoil my initial journey into the Night. It was a literary voyage I shall never forget: like reading my first kurt Vonnegut novel. It absolutely blew me away.
I blew through it, finding I couldn't put it down. I'm entirely certain that is common with all of you here....nuthin new to you. The light outside drew me away from reading the darker passages, as I needed to reasure myself that the laws of this world still held true.
A truly viseral cycle comes to a close with a finely crafted ending. But I found myself looking for the, what was she called....um the seer, the .......oculus? The seer with black eyes (well crafted character there....the imagination it took to come up with a character who's pupils dialate to veiw the extreme pages ...... the allies comunications bringing her to her knees, like some kind of penticostal as the focal point of a localised world wide cult....totally amazing writing) whom I thought would end up living with Jack's girls, where she could "grow up" and find a small amount of nomal. But no such luck: No normal for the celestial page.
Am I missing some detail. I was curious as to why she was left to survive on the coast with out a sentance to her existance. It must have been difficult deciding on the final edit.
Nonetheless: Awesome book.....gripping unpredictable ending.
It was the ......Oculus???..... that initially got us thinking that the "heir" would be the one to swing the death blows the the big bad R. What an ending to have the old man energised by life long chore, having rebuilt the weapon. Bravo! Bravo!