Children of the Night
Diana Tregarde is new to New York, and to her Guardianship--but she's ready to defend her friends, and her adopted city, from any evil--even vampires: the Children of the Night.
Diana Tregarde is new to New York, and to her Guardianship--but she's ready to defend her friends, and her adopted city, from any evil--even vampires: the Children of the Night.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780812522723 (0812522729)
Publish date: August 1990
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 313
Edition language: English
Series: Diana Tregarde (#1)
Before Buffy or Hamilton's Anita Blake or Harris' Sookie Stackhouse, Lackey was writing Urban Fantasy with a strong heroine, Diana Tregarde, starting with Burning Water and also including, besides this one, Jinx High. Diana is a practicing witch and a "Guardian" sworn to protect innocents who get ca...
This book is filled with magic and Guardians and psychic vampires and yet it has a real feel to it. Di the heroine has a job, bills, friends and a broken heart. She has panic attacks that can impede her in her job. She has unruly hair and does not dress to impress. People are ending up dead, their s...
I like the Diana Tregarde stories. This is really my first taste of Urban fantasy. There were not many writers, especially female ones writing in this genre backll in the 90s. I recommend this book for young adults actually because the material is just right for teens today. Nothing preachy nor ...