Polar Night

First I have to say that I usually never read vampire books. In the last 20 years most of them are about sex and no real story. Polar Night is definitely NOT like those. It has a very refreshing story line.

Two men: one a murderer, one a cop. Both have had tragedies in their past and lost someone dear to them. Aleksei's tragedy was losing his unrequited love over 100 years ago. Since then he has been obsessed with replacing her. Danny Fitzpatrick is a Detective with the Fairbanks police department. He lost his wife not long ago to a murderer in Chicago.

Danny is working on a cold case, a blond haired, tall, thin woman was taken a few years ago and the case was never solved. Then a woman that fits the same description is kidnapped out of show more a store parking lot. Danny thinks this is too much of a coincidence. He finds a woman who escaped from an attacker and she fits the same description and has some unusual impressions of her would be kidnapper. They join together and find a never ending nightmare. Danny has a reputation as a lush so no one at the precinct believes him when he draws his conclusions.

Aleksei has been trying to find a replacement for his very first love and it is not working out well. He desperately wants a love that will become his Natasha. He has been looking for the last 100 years and has failed. Many look like Natasha but none are truly like her.

Julie Flanders does a great job of intertwining the past and present of both Danny and Aleksei. The reader goes from both characters darkest days to each of them taking hold of their lives and moving forward. I felt the way she wrote the ending was really classy as well. Polar Nights is not your average vampire story.

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Polar Nights has a mellow start and makes you wonder where’s the mystery going to come from. You meet Aleksei and thing “interesting.” Then you get to really know Danny, the main character, a cop on a track to ruin after the death of his wife, and you’re hooked in the story: Crazy killer and the alcoholic cop after him. What really grabs you is the dialog, which rings harshly real and makes you feel for the characters. And it ends with a nice finishing touch.