![]() ![]() He maintains three identities and juggles trying to fool the general populace and a genius neighbor who gets too close to the truth later in the book. He keeps busy by flying between his three jobs of cop, doc, and lawyer. ![]() His face is marked from past disease, he has (often funny) secrets, and morals… somewhere. He is also a 600 year old vampire who defies the shiny, angst-ridden vampires that swamp the market today. Nick writes his account as he’s trapped with mocking officers in jail, awaiting his trial for a murder he didn’t commit. Review: Dark Moonlighting is filled with dark humor, sharp teeth, a couple of bad guys, and clichés. His face is marked from past disease, he has (often funny) Dark Moonlighting (Dark Moonlighting, #1) by: Scott Haworthįormat: PDF provided by author in exchange for review Nick takes twenty minutes to kill someone and, like the vampire bat, must immediately urinate afterwards.moreĭark Moonlighting (Dark Moonlighting, #1) by: Scott Haworth Format: PDF provided by author in exchange for review Review: Dark Moonlighting is filled with dark humor, sharp teeth, a couple of bad guys, and clichés. For example, the average human has the equivalent of five Big Gulps worth of blood in their body. It also takes a more realistic and amusing approach to the vampire cliché. It explores four of the biggest clichés in popular culture, and it pokes fun at a number of popular television shows including Law & Order, Bones and House. Nick must move quickly to prevent the three women in his life, and the authorities who are hunting him, from discovering his terrible secret.ĭark Moonlighting is the first book in the humorous series. However, the barriers between Nick's three secret lives start to crumble when a mysterious man from his past arrives in town seeking revenge. Few people in Starside, Illinois seem to care about the untimely deaths of spam e-mailers, pushy Jehovah Witnesses and politicians. ![]() He used to feel guilty about the killings, but now he restricts himself to only eating the worst members of society. In a typical week he works as a police officer, lawyer and doctor and still finds time to murder someone and drink their blood. Few people in Starside, Il Nick Whittier, having been alive for six centuries, has had plenty of time to master three professions. But for me, at least, that didn't spoil a riveting episode and a shocking twist at the end that I completely failed to anticipate.Nick Whittier, having been alive for six centuries, has had plenty of time to master three professions. She's trying hard - perhaps too much - but she's on screen with giants, and seems to me to be having a lot of trouble holding her own. Would it really convey anything more if half the programme had to be watched by most of the audience on subtitles? I am warming to Callum, whose sarky comments remind me of Ros Myers my only problem so far with this series is Lara Pulver, whose casting I feel to have been a mistake. I speak Russian, and while the Russian accents might not be perfect, they're acceptable to me. There were touches of humour and superb acting. Very clever writing to pick up on and quietly poke fun at both the recent spate of lost laptops/forgotten classified documents and the publication of secret government information by Wikileaks. But quite frankly I was too enthralled by the developing story to notice those. Yes, the technology may not be used in exactly the correct way, yes, there may be the occasional unlikely coincidence. It was taut, exciting, and never lost pace. ![]()
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