Review: Supernatural Beings Meet their Match
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 19, 2011
This was a really funny and satisfying book.  Craig Lockman gets drawn into a complicated and evil plot by the arrival on his doorstep of his long-lost 13-year-old daughter.  He had been ready to bury the past, but the past comes and finds him.Unfortunately for him, evil supernatural creatures have followed the girl to his doorstep.  The bullets start flying before she is even through the door.  While running from these creatures and killing them in gloriously brain-splattering fashion, father and daughter have the chance to get to know each other.  He has to return his daughter to her frantic mother on the other side of the country, but they have a hell of a time just getting there.One of the best qualities of Darker Things is the dialogue between this adolescent girl and her Dad.  Cornell does a masterful job at developing these characters even as they fight for their lives and struggle to understand what they're up against.The ending is hugely satisfying.  I am looking forward to reading another book in the Lockman Chronicles.