Christa M. (Xa) reviewed on 5/9/2006 + 76 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 10

This is the first book in what is quite possibly the best military action/scifi book I have ever laid my hands on. I was surprised to like it at all, since I usually don't read military-type adventures, and I usually like my vampires to be more human and nuanced. The vampires in this series are actually aliens. They've conquered the Earth, except for a few stubborn pockets of resistance. They eat people.

Join David Valentine as he joins up with the militia in the Ozark Free Territory as a raw recruit and journey with him into the ranks of the Wolves-soldiers with enhanced abilities who take the fight to the enemy. There is nothing glorious about this war. It's dirty, ugly and rife with human collaborators and terrifying aliens, and Knight has a real talent at letting you feel the exhaustion, the fear, the strung-out nerves, near-starvation, the cold, heat, dirt, grit and blood. There is a marvellous realism of the army, with it's comraderie and petty jealosies and bueracracies, but in David and his comrades we find humanity's indomitable will to survive-no matter what it takes.

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