Blog Tour Review: Night Walker – Lisa Kessler

Night Walker by Lisa Kessler
Series:  The Night Series #1
Release Date:  August 2, 2011
Publisher:  Entangled Publishing
Source:  Bewitching Book Tours
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He gave up his soul for a second chance to love her…

Two and a half centuries ago, Calisto Terana lost everything when a zealous priest murdered the woman he loved. Now, desperate for another chance to love her, he wants redemption for the mistake that cost her life.

She’s haunted by dreams of her own death…

After catching her fiance with another woman, Kate Bradley returns to San Diego to clear her head. The last thing she needs is romance, but after meeting Calisto she’s drawn to him in ways she doesn’t understand.

They’ve waited in the shadows for centuries…

Calisto has no doubt Kate is the reincarnation of his lost love, but the Fraternidad Del Fuego Santo has a new watcher with dark ambitions of his own. As old enemies reemerge and a new threat arises, the betrayal that enslaved Calisto to the night might destroy the only woman he’s ever loved again.

Reviewer’s Thoughts:

I always love when an author comes up with a new twist on an “old” character.  In the case of Night Walker, it’s putting a Native American spin on the vampire tale.

Calisto Terana is a Night Walker.  He was given his powers by the Old One who vowed Calisto would live to see his love live in another life and be reunited with her.  He willingly gave up the sun and accepted immortality for the hope that he would see is Tala again.  He’s lived hundreds of years waiting for that moment and not much else.

Kate Bradley ran from San Diego and to be a teacher in Reno.  After she catches her fiance,  Tom, in the arms of a student.  Desperate to get away from Tom and determined to stop running from the pain of her parents death she returns to San Diego.  Once back home, she’s meet Calisto.  A man who calls to her very soul.  She’s skeptical at first, but she can’t fight the draw to Calisto.

I like the idea that Calisto (or Gregorio since that was who is was as a human) would give up his humanity in the hope that he would eventually be reunited with his one true love.  That is a testament to the phrase “I’ll love you forever”.  Then there is Kate, who in her soul, knew that Calisto was the man she was meant to be with upon first sight.  Did she question her sanity and why she was so drawn this this virtual stranger?  Yes, she didn’t fight it.  Almost like she knew, at an elemental level, he was hers.

What good is a romance if there isn’t some sort of evil to try and thwart it.  In this story, it was the Fraternidad Del Fuego Santo and their fight to stop Calisto from creating another Night Walker in Kate.  Funny how those that deem themselves to be the righteous and right manage to look out instead of in when trying to ward of those they feel are evil.  In the case of the Fraternidad, if they had looked in, they would have found a brother in their midst who was not on the same page as their agenda.  Because they chose to point the finger of evil-doer at Calisto, the caused the very thing they were hoping to stop.

Night Walker is a story that will tug at your emotions for both what Kate and Calisto must endure in the name of God and the steps they must make to finally commit to one another.