The Nightlife is violent, sexy, and occasionally violently sexy, and San Antonio starts with blood on the floor.
EMT on call, Adrian Faulkner resuscitates a beautiful woman after a Mexican mafia shootout. He can't explain why he picks her up in the hospital parking lot three days later and then ducks the San Antonio police – and the Feds.
She needed to hide. With no memory of even her name, she didn't know from who. She only knew she wasn't safe. Lucky to survive, all she wants is to escape the police.
Looking to hit it and quit it, all Adrian wants is to get laid. They both got more than they bargained for.
The naked woman tangled in Adrian’s sheets and his life is far more than a damsel in distress, and now he’s stuck with her. All hell breaks loose as the past she can’t remember catches up with them both…
Review
The Nightlife; San Antonio is the second
standalone book in The Nightlife series by Travis Luedke. We meet Adrian
Falkner in the beginning of the book as he works as an EMT, his back ground is
that of the military with a dark psychological profile, he’s a loner never
needing to rely on anyone but himself. Whilst on nightshift he and his partner
are called to a shootout where they’re needed to treat a beautiful female shot
multiple times. In the ambulance her heart fails her, but Adrian is determined
to save her, shocking her heart back into life, they make it to hospital with
her still alive. Drawn to her he keeps checking on her to see if she’s
recovering, until the fateful night he meets her in the hospital car park
dressed in only a hospital gown. Against his better judgement he takes her home
and the rollercoaster begins.
A vampire with no memory is a great twist to the
beginning of the book, and we are able to see their relationship develop as
Adrian observes how quickly the vamp heals whilst finding it difficult to
comprehend how she heals and why she keeps biting him drawing on his blood. I
haven’t read a book for a while where a vamp lives on instinct alone not
knowing why she does things. I also liked that the main vampire in this book is
female who instinctually takes a male blood slave who can care and protect her.
It’s not long before the mafia starts raising its
ugly head, along with the local white supremacy biker group and a dirty cop.
Travis once again drags us through the seedy under world of drugs and the mafia
and uses it to great effect in the book. Adrian fights hard against his natural
instinct to destroy anything in his path he didn’t want to be the sociopath the
army psychiatrists labelled him, that’s why he became an EMT but the need to
protect the vamp draws the ruthless side from him.
As is usual in The Nightlife books there’s lots
of hot steamy sexual encounters, the tension between the two
of them is gripping and intense with the continuous temptation in her mind to
bite him while he has an inability to hold back or to play it safe.
Travis writes in his own inimitable style giving the reader enough
information for them to finish the scenes in their mind and isn’t gratuitous in
any way. I must admit I really like Travis’s style of writing erotica in to his
books it makes a change from some of the books I’ve read where there’s just
lots and lots of sex not always written well.
There is some irony with Adrian and La Rena’s
relationship, he’s a sociopathic loner with OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder)
relying on no one and the first women he really falls for is also a tough
sociopath & a high ranking drug lord and can be quite messy when she feeds,
what were the chances of that Travis!! I also liked Crenshaw who came across as
a very funny character although it was a shame about his ending.
The book is gritty and takes you into the world
where the mafia is king, law and ruler mix this in with vampires and you get a
great Travis Luedke novel. It’s an easy book to read, there’s no need to
concentrate too hard to follow the plot, and it allows you to travel into a
different world with different laws. It’s a great standalone book within the
series and you could read it at any point in the Nightlife book series. I’m sad
to reach the end of these books, but I would highly recommend them to anyone
who loves a good vampire book or as a first set of books for those just coming
into the vampire/fantasy genre
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