Review: Lockman Chronicles #2 leaves you anticipating #3
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 14, 2013
Fleshing out the characters introduced in Darker Things, Rob Cornell takes us on a journey to Vampireville. It's a year later and Craig Lockman is building a new life with Kate and his daughter, Jessie.Craig struggles to be more human after living in hiding for over a decade; Kate struggles with trust issues, abandonment issues, and her new-found knowledge of all things paranormal, which she deals with by trying to pretend it doesn't exist, never happened; Jessie...Jessie is a confused teenager who's learned some hard lessons about what she thought was pure fantasy, has a ton of unanswered questions, and still mourns the loss of her boyfriend (book one).When a fellow agent from Craig's now disbanded government agency shows up to seek his help with a personal paranormal problem, Craig is torn between loyalty to an old friend and the promises he's made to Kate and Jessie. Slowly Craig comes to see that it's not simply a personal problem, but one that will affect, possibly destroy, the human race and he has no choice but to break his promise to Kate and begin once again to battle paranormal evil.This time the vampires take the lead and they haven't gotten any warmer or fuzzier than they were in book one. With the help of Marty the ogre, Craig and his former agency pal, Teresa, set out on a course that, despite Craig's best intentions, draws Kate and Jessie ever closer to the dangers that threaten mankind and it's a roller coaster race to see who will triumph and who will fall.