I was happy and anxious to read Maggie Shayne's Twilight Guardians which is her first book in her series Wings in the Night Reborn. I was happy because I was so eager to revisit the beautiful world that Maggie Shayne created in her Wings in the Night series but I was anxious because I have hoped since Wings in the Night ended that she would revisit this world and I was afraid of getting my hopes up. Well, it turned out that I had nothing to worry about. She delved back into the world and I was excited to see some of the other characters return because that meant they survived the vicious slaughter of their kind.
The first thing that I noticed was that the book begins a few years after the vampires were nearly wiped out in the last book of Wings in the Night. Though I still worry for the main characters of the Wings in the Night series, I was happy to see that some of them still survived though in a much darker world than what the original series was set in. Though I hope to see the other vampires I grew to love in books to come, there is a bigger threat than ever before and of course, that threat comes from the DPI which is a government agency dedicated to wiping out vampires. So, the world is even more frightening and more interesting before.
The characters are excellent as always. I can understand Charlie or Killian and I can admire them. These characters are real in a way that you can see why they would react the way they do even if you don't necessarily agree with their actions. Maggie Shayne makes you fall in love with her vampires and she makes you really dislike the DPI.
So, I love the characters and the setting but Maggie's writing style is absolute magic. She can enthrall you with words and make you see these plots unraveling or a character's looks and attitude. She has a love of words and it shows with each word that she writes. This beautiful and engaging story captured me and I was washed in each emotion as I walked with Charlie as she moved from being a fragile and naive girl to a very strong woman.
So, I'll end this by saying that I truly do not find one thing that bothered me about this book besides the fact that I want to read another one and I have to wait for Maggie to work her magic once again. So until then, I will recommend Twilight Guardians for adults who love magical writing, vampires and romance.
My Rating: 5+
Book Cover Rating: 5+ (This is a seriously beautiful cover)
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