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Night World No. 2: Dark Angel; The Chosen; Soulmate

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These three books were all about forbidden love between a vampires, humans, and witches. However, in these stories, the characters didn't really care about the Night World laws. The stories were a bit different, and there were some enjoyable parts, but a lot of stories revolving around the same theme do get boring. They're good as short reads since each of them is about 50,000 words, especially if you get bored of characters fast. Dark Angel, for me, was the most enjoyable read.

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DARK ANGEL - 3.5/ 5

Dark Angel was somewhat different than the previous three stories in the series since it doesn't just introduce two characters and say that they're soul mates. Throughout a great part of the story I wondered who exactly a character named `Angel' was. The previous stories never had such a character who would speak inside the mind of the protagonist.

One day, while walking home from school, Gillian hears a child crying near the creek. She has to help and thinks that the child might be drowning, so she looks into the creek only to lose her balance and falls in.

Somehow she manages to make it out of the creek, but it's wintertime and she's freezing. Her body eventually stops creating heat and she has no strength to move. She sees a tunnel with light at the end of it. Then she hears a beautiful boy who asks her if she wants to live. But she doesn't know what to live for since her mother is an alcoholic, her parents are unhappy together, and she is unpopular in school. But somehow the beautiful boy makes her see that there are things to live for and so Gillian chooses to live.

She is told by the beautiful boy's voice to go in front of the car that is passing by. It's David's car, the boy that she has had a crush on for a long time. He helps get her home.

She starts to hear the voice of the beautiful boy inside her head. He tells her what she must do in order to become popular. And he tells her to trust him and to call him `Angel' because he's her guardian angel.

But who really is Angel? And how difficult will it be for Gillian to become popular and get David, the boy she likes?

THE CHOSEN - 3/5

The Chosen by L.J. Smith did not excite me. Perhaps it was because it revolved around a vampire hunter and it was not the type of book I was looking for. After telling us the background information of the protagonist, the story seemed to start later on. I kept zoning out when I was being told of Rashel's vampire hunting adventures. I thought it was interesting that there was a secret club that teens went to who were really into death and darkness, and I also liked Quinn the vampire.

On Rashel's fifth birthday party, inside a tube structure, she saw a man with red hair who seemed to be devouring her friend, Timmy. She managed to call for help, but when her mother came, the vampire broke the mother's neck. Rashel then got sent to her only relative's house to live, but that same vampire set the house on fire, and Rashel's relative died.

After that, Rashel started moving around a lot, going from one foster family to the next. But what she knew most was that she must learn to protect herself from vampires, and that she wanted that very vampire, the one that killed her mother and Timmy, dead.

In the future, Rashel becomes a vampire hunter, and has a few vampire hunter friends. They are observing a warehouse area because they suspect something is going on there. Rashel has knocked down a vampire named Quinn and they have taken him to a room. She tells her fellow vampire hunters that she will look after the vampire until go run an errand. Secretly she is thinking about staking him and not letting the others see this happen.

Everything goes wrong and Rashel willingly allows the vampire to escape. Now, she's all on her own to discover what's going on in the warehouses and to win back the respect she has lost from her fellow vampire hunters. They no longer believe her when she finds out that something big is actually going on in those warehouses.

SOULMATE - 3/5

Soulmate by L.J. Smith was an okay story. The beginning was extremely interesting, but after a chapter or two, it somehow went downhill. I did like that the protagonist, Hannah, has had many past lives, but she fails to remember them. What I didn't like was that sometimes while I was reading the story, I felt like I was inside a box. Although the story was a little different from the previous stories in the Night World series, all the stories are about forbidden love and so in the end cannot be very different. I also didn't like the decision that Hannah made in the end.

The story starts with Hannah Snow, a girl with a large birthmark on her face, in the psychologist's office, telling him that she has finding notes in her room in her own handwriting but she has no recollection of writing them. She writes notes such as: "Dead before seventeen." (435)

Then the bell rings and Paul the psychologist goes to open the door even after Hannah instinctually warns him not to, and at the same time a wolf breaks in through the window and tries to attack Hannah.

Only with the help of her psychologist will she be able to find out why she keeps writing notes to herself about death. How many past lives has she had? And why does Hannah keep dying before the age of seventeen in each one of them? How did the birthmark on her face come to be?

"The laws of the Night World are very clear: humans must never learn that the Night World exists. And members of the Night World must never fall in love with a human. Violate the laws and the consequences are terrifying.
These are the stories about what happens when the rules get broken."

This series was originally published in the 90s, and is being reissued due to the popularity of "Twilight." Each new Night World volume contains three separate books.

In each book of this series, a supernatural being and a human discover that they are soulmates, and bound together forever. Can they escape with their lives after defying the laws of the Night World?

The series features vampires, werewolves, witches, and more! There are nine books so far (3 large volumes of 3 books each). The conclusion, 'Strange Fate,' will be released in July 2010 - the series was never concluded when it was originally published.

"Twilight" fans will love these stories of romance and adventure! "Soulmate" was one of my favourites when I read this series on its original publication.

I grew up with the Nightworld series and my old copies are so worn that they're falling apart. It's great to see them rereleased in shiney new anthologies. I strongly recommend these books to anyone who loves vampires, werewolves, witches and romance.

The Night World is a great, entertaining series. If you enjoy the genre of teen supernatural fiction, you will enjoy the Night World Series and probably most books by L.J. Smith..

awesome book anyone who likes the supernatural this is the book for you i highly recommend it!