in Dark Angel, this girl dies and comes back with an "angel". but Angel isnt really an angel, he's bad but he helps gillian become popular. and he tells her that she is a witch. Dark Angel was okay. its was kinda boring. i wouldnt read it again.

in The Chosen, Rashel is a vampire hunter. quinn is a vampire. when she tries to kill him she cant. they fall in love. it was better than Dark Angel but wasnt very original. ( )

The second collection in the Night World series takes us into 3 more tales of how soulmates in reality transcend the rules of the human world, and those of the Night World, and goes to show people are people, and they fall in love all the time, but there is only one soulmate, and the connection of soulmates really doesn't care if you are Witch, Were, Vamp, Human, or Shapeshifter. Love is love, and it knows no bounds, and obeys no laws. As in the 1st collection, the 2nd is a set of 3 stories, one of a girl who dies, and finds her own guardian angel. Of a sort. Her angel is helping her change, but for better, or worse? The second tale is of a vampire huntress, who finds her soulmate, in a vampire who has a centuries old hate of humans, and for good reason. Kill or be killed, they both end up telling each other, even as they realize what they mean to each other. The 3rd tale is of love, hate, jealousy, reincarnation, and how you can't always have what you want and win. A great collection from L.J. Smith once again.

So far, Night World is my favorite L.J. Smith series, because it is the most cracktastic. It is full of the kinds of stuff your sixteen-year-old id comes up with and incorporates into your private vast crossover-ridden original fiction playground. (Everybody mashes up all their favorite characters and tropes into a personal fantasy playground when they're sixteen, right? Right? Guys?) It has a secret history of the world, in which there is a Night World of witches, vampires, and shapeshifters, who are now trying to bring on the apocalypse, opposed only by an idealistic group of humans, witches, vampires, and shapeshifters with a nifty cool name (Circle Daybreak), and also there are soulmate bonds, reincarnation, and, lately, dragons. Sadly I am not as keen on soulmate bonds now as I was when I was sixteen, but L.J. Smith still is. Also, she is far too fond of vampires (boring!) and not fond enough of dragons (BEST THING EVER!), but no one is perfect.Full review. ( )

I loved all three books in this series, waiting for the next one to come out.... ( )

Night World is a novel that leaves readers never wanting to put the book down. I loved how each short story is skillfully linked to the next, it made the stories that much better. My ultimate favourite would have to be Dark Angel. This intriguing story begins when Gillian, who is walking home from school, hears a voice coming from the snowy woods. It appears to be a young girl calling for help. Curious and determined to find the child, Gillian enters the woods. Little did she know that this would lead to a terrible accident involving a vicious, icy creek, and death itself. Engaging and fabulous are two of the thousands of words that describe how great L.J. Smith's creative and imaginative writing is. Overall the Night World books are a must read. -Rachel B - Block: 3 ( )