It’s not easy, being king. You can’t always rule a kingdom and still do what needs to be done.
Eric – or King Halar, also known as the Demon King – has more than enough problems without the crown. But quitting the job of king isn’t easy, either – unless you want to be beheaded. Most people regard that as an unsatisfactory way to quit. Even vampire lords tend to be cautious about guillotines. A king who loses his head has a real problem…or none at all.
It’s time to sort some of these problems out, settle a few more, and kill the rest. But at what cost?
Knightfall is the fourth book of the Nightlord series. It picks up exactly where Orb (book three) ends, and carries on with an adventure of epic proportions!
Finally a nightlord novel that doesn’t leave you brutalized at the end! I’ve enjoyed all of the nightlord novels but have gotten into the habit of stopping my read through before the end of each book. Without spoiling anything, the end of most of these novels are incredibly frustrating.Â
Back on track. After the frustrations of the third book the series finally gets back on track. Many of the dropped plot threads get picked up and either resolved or advanced satisfactorily. For once there is not a horribly frustrating cliffhanger, although there are strong hints that this ending is the calm before the storm.
Thank you, Garon! I LOVE your books! I fell in love with this adult fantasy series on audio, but by ‘adult,’ I don’t mean overly violent or explicit, just written for the grownup fantasy lover. When you read the description of it — the hero is “a half wizard half vampire” — you might think it could never work, or that it would be cheesy, but you’d be SO wrong! The premise is fantastic, the writing is genius, the story is original and unexpected, and if you like big books (as in EPIC length), you’ve hit the jackpot! I…