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Night's Champion #2
Night's Fall
This is an alternate cover edition of ASINB071W2J5FD.
Would you let a stranger take your curse even if it would damn the world?
In the five years since their Pack left the ruins of a Biomne facility, Adalia Kendrick has discovered gifts of her own. While her mother Danny tries to run from the curse of the Night’s Favor, Adalia speaks to those only she can see. She speaks to the dead.
Stories of the Night’s dark gift have reached across the seas to Talin Moray, a man who will stop at nothing to possess its power. With his mastery of Vodou he brings the city of Chicago to its knees. Armies fall. Zombies roam the streets, and no one is safe. Talin will become the king of a ruined world.
Five years is a long time to run, trying to turn the curse of the Night’s Favor into a blessing. Will Val and Danny’s yearning to be free from the Night’s Favor mean losing everything? Is Adalia’s power – and the dead boy that walks with her – enough to stand against Talin?
Night’s Fall is the second book in Richard Parry’s gripping Night’s Champion trilogy. If you like page-turning supernatural thrillers with great dialogue and heart-pumping action, then you’ll love this Sir Julius Vogel Award finalist novel.
Would you let a stranger take your curse even if it would damn the world?
In the five years since their Pack left the ruins of a Biomne facility, Adalia Kendrick has discovered gifts of her own. While her mother Danny tries to run from the curse of the Night’s Favor, Adalia speaks to those only she can see. She speaks to the dead.
Stories of the Night’s dark gift have reached across the seas to Talin Moray, a man who will stop at nothing to possess its power. With his mastery of Vodou he brings the city of Chicago to its knees. Armies fall. Zombies roam the streets, and no one is safe. Talin will become the king of a ruined world.
Five years is a long time to run, trying to turn the curse of the Night’s Favor into a blessing. Will Val and Danny’s yearning to be free from the Night’s Favor mean losing everything? Is Adalia’s power – and the dead boy that walks with her – enough to stand against Talin?
Night’s Fall is the second book in Richard Parry’s gripping Night’s Champion trilogy. If you like page-turning supernatural thrillers with great dialogue and heart-pumping action, then you’ll love this Sir Julius Vogel Award finalist novel.
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First published June 2, 2017
About the author
Richard Parry
47 books309 followersRichard Parry has worked as a senior marketing manager in one of the world’s top tech companies, but it wasn't all cocaine parties. His debut novel Night’s Favor and its sequel Night’s Fall have been shortlisted for the Sir Julius Vogel Award “Best Novel” category.
His ever-growing list of novels spans urban fantasy, cyberpunk, and space opera, featuring flawed heroes, sharp dialogue, and a healthy dose of action. His Night’s Champion trilogy follows an alcoholic-turned-werewolf saving the world, while Future Forfeit explores a neon-drenched cyberpunk future where hacking the system is just the start. Meanwhile, Ezeroc Wars throws readers into the deep end of an interstellar war against a swarm species that doesn’t take no for an answer. Across over 20 novels (and counting), Richard delivers stories packed with heart, explosions, and the occasional bad decision.
Richard lives in Wellington with the love of his life, Rae. They have cats, who chase birds. The birds, who have the power of flight, don’t seem to mind.
His ever-growing list of novels spans urban fantasy, cyberpunk, and space opera, featuring flawed heroes, sharp dialogue, and a healthy dose of action. His Night’s Champion trilogy follows an alcoholic-turned-werewolf saving the world, while Future Forfeit explores a neon-drenched cyberpunk future where hacking the system is just the start. Meanwhile, Ezeroc Wars throws readers into the deep end of an interstellar war against a swarm species that doesn’t take no for an answer. Across over 20 novels (and counting), Richard delivers stories packed with heart, explosions, and the occasional bad decision.
Richard lives in Wellington with the love of his life, Rae. They have cats, who chase birds. The birds, who have the power of flight, don’t seem to mind.
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January 10, 2019
Sometimes you come across a book that is so epic in it's world building, and characters so full of depth and heart that you can't help but see it playing cinematically in your mind's eye ....... and this is one of those books!
Richard Parry has a talent for not only exceptional story telling but also for being able to immerse the reader in the story that is being woven. You are able to feel everything the main characters are feeling, from the heady highs to the soul destroying lows, you are right there beside them fighting for what is right.
Night's Fall comes some five years after the events in Night's Favour, and although this "Night's Champion" series runs to three books, each one covers different stories and can be read quite easily as standalones. I won't rehash the synopsis as it's all there in the blurb, but essentially Night's Fall is a story of family and fighting to protect them, as well as the epic tale of good triumphing over evil.
There's werewolves, humans, an evil necromancer, a form of wolf-zombie hybrid, seers and various monster baddies, but it is in the main storyline that the author reveals his shining talent - a story of true friendship encompassing family and the ability to keep on fighting even when it seems hopeless and you feel you can't go on. A story of new friendships and old, and the heart breaking reality that some of those friends will fall by the wayside.
I seriously can't recommend this novel highly enough, even if the ending left me blubbering inconsolably, cursing both the antagonist and the author for leaving me in this state.
I received an ebook of this novel directly from the author. I have voluntarily chosen to review the book and the gifting in no way influences my review/rating, which reflects my honest opinion.
Richard Parry has a talent for not only exceptional story telling but also for being able to immerse the reader in the story that is being woven. You are able to feel everything the main characters are feeling, from the heady highs to the soul destroying lows, you are right there beside them fighting for what is right.
Night's Fall comes some five years after the events in Night's Favour, and although this "Night's Champion" series runs to three books, each one covers different stories and can be read quite easily as standalones. I won't rehash the synopsis as it's all there in the blurb, but essentially Night's Fall is a story of family and fighting to protect them, as well as the epic tale of good triumphing over evil.
There's werewolves, humans, an evil necromancer, a form of wolf-zombie hybrid, seers and various monster baddies, but it is in the main storyline that the author reveals his shining talent - a story of true friendship encompassing family and the ability to keep on fighting even when it seems hopeless and you feel you can't go on. A story of new friendships and old, and the heart breaking reality that some of those friends will fall by the wayside.
I seriously can't recommend this novel highly enough, even if the ending left me blubbering inconsolably, cursing both the antagonist and the author for leaving me in this state.
I received an ebook of this novel directly from the author. I have voluntarily chosen to review the book and the gifting in no way influences my review/rating, which reflects my honest opinion.
August 25, 2017
Not the first time I have done this – started reading a series at Book #2. I couldn’t put it aside because you can take a Kindle with you to the fridge, bathroom, bus commute… OK, not the shower. But taking the time to get some sleep? Night’s Fall trumps the need to sleep.
Snappy dialog. Fun pop culture references. Lots of flawed characters to learn to love. Get used to mental whiplash, with Richard Perry’s skilled use of the unexpected, because you never see it coming.
There are scenes of serious blood-letting; a scattering of bad language; characters who should be dead as a result of battles, who drag themselves to their feet and back into the fight.
It was a no-brainer on my part. I immediately bought Night’s Favor and Night’s End. Plus Upgrade… and thinking about Sleepless – and hoping my wife does not find out how much I am spending on Amazon.ca.
Snappy dialog. Fun pop culture references. Lots of flawed characters to learn to love. Get used to mental whiplash, with Richard Perry’s skilled use of the unexpected, because you never see it coming.
There are scenes of serious blood-letting; a scattering of bad language; characters who should be dead as a result of battles, who drag themselves to their feet and back into the fight.
It was a no-brainer on my part. I immediately bought Night’s Favor and Night’s End. Plus Upgrade… and thinking about Sleepless – and hoping my wife does not find out how much I am spending on Amazon.ca.
September 25, 2016
Werewolves and shapeshifters and genetic modification, oh my!
Night's Fall is the second part of the Night's Champion series and it was great to step back into the heads of some of the characters that I'd got to know in the first book, Night's Favour, especially Detective Carlisle and her acerbic wit. New characters seamlessly step into the world and bring their own flavour, which keeps the story flowing and the various motives-guessing activated. There are several storylines threaded throughout; dealing with the past; reconciliations; coming of age and more, with varying degrees of suspense and keys to the main plot, but all fully realised and given their own space to be told.
While dealing with werewolves, shapeshifters, genetic modification and humans, it's all very familiar as stories of loyalty, sacrifice, power, love and humanity.
Parry's ability to give characters definition and depth really shows here and I'd be keen to have a beer with one or two of them, but will just have to wait for the third book.
Night's Fall is the second part of the Night's Champion series and it was great to step back into the heads of some of the characters that I'd got to know in the first book, Night's Favour, especially Detective Carlisle and her acerbic wit. New characters seamlessly step into the world and bring their own flavour, which keeps the story flowing and the various motives-guessing activated. There are several storylines threaded throughout; dealing with the past; reconciliations; coming of age and more, with varying degrees of suspense and keys to the main plot, but all fully realised and given their own space to be told.
While dealing with werewolves, shapeshifters, genetic modification and humans, it's all very familiar as stories of loyalty, sacrifice, power, love and humanity.
Parry's ability to give characters definition and depth really shows here and I'd be keen to have a beer with one or two of them, but will just have to wait for the third book.
September 23, 2017
I really enjoyed the first book of this series, but this one took me ages to get into, and only really got good in the last part of the book. I think there were too many characters and ideas fighting for attention, it got a bit confusing. There also seemed to be a lot happen to the main characters in the 5 years between book one and two that is never really explained.
November 25, 2018
We are following up with Val and his pack after a five-year hiatus. There are a lot of things that are sort of left out that may have occurred during that five-year break. There are many questions some of them get resolved others are left to fallow.
This part of the story involves zombies…have to say as a genre I’m not really a big fan of it. There have been a few spoof zombie movies that I have enjoyed other than that I don’t read it. Of course this author throws them into the mixing pot and I found I didn’t mind them as much with his take on the genre. We are also introduced to other forms of supernatural and time traveling or at least time jumping. Some of it did get a little confusing but I was still vested enough in Val and his big heart that I kept reading.
I think one of the reasons I like this author is his dark humor and sense of ridiculous, which bleeds through to his characters. The sometimes self-decrypting humor along with big hearts of his main leads keeps you rooting them on and really feeling their pain and loss when it happens.
This author is great at writing strong female characters, he allows them to go the full gauntlet of emotions but still remain fierce and very capable. When you put them with a male counterpart that is not intimidated by their badassery you have an unstoppable combination. It was nice that the ladies took the lead in this part of the story. Each strong in their own right but together they are an impenetrable shield.
The only stumbles were areas felt that felt a bit murky and I had to backtrack and reread at times. The introduction of new players at times was confusing as to their place in the story. Some characters you got their place in the scheme of things rather quickly others not so much. A bit more gore than the first book but the story still draws you in and you want to see what happens next.
A note to other authors when this author says there are 3 books in the series he doesn’t mean that he breaks up one story into three parts, each book is it’s own full story that threads into the next book and so on. Plus they are more than 100 pages per book please take note.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
This part of the story involves zombies…have to say as a genre I’m not really a big fan of it. There have been a few spoof zombie movies that I have enjoyed other than that I don’t read it. Of course this author throws them into the mixing pot and I found I didn’t mind them as much with his take on the genre. We are also introduced to other forms of supernatural and time traveling or at least time jumping. Some of it did get a little confusing but I was still vested enough in Val and his big heart that I kept reading.
I think one of the reasons I like this author is his dark humor and sense of ridiculous, which bleeds through to his characters. The sometimes self-decrypting humor along with big hearts of his main leads keeps you rooting them on and really feeling their pain and loss when it happens.
This author is great at writing strong female characters, he allows them to go the full gauntlet of emotions but still remain fierce and very capable. When you put them with a male counterpart that is not intimidated by their badassery you have an unstoppable combination. It was nice that the ladies took the lead in this part of the story. Each strong in their own right but together they are an impenetrable shield.
The only stumbles were areas felt that felt a bit murky and I had to backtrack and reread at times. The introduction of new players at times was confusing as to their place in the story. Some characters you got their place in the scheme of things rather quickly others not so much. A bit more gore than the first book but the story still draws you in and you want to see what happens next.
A note to other authors when this author says there are 3 books in the series he doesn’t mean that he breaks up one story into three parts, each book is it’s own full story that threads into the next book and so on. Plus they are more than 100 pages per book please take note.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
April 19, 2019
4+ stars. Put it this way: my usual rule of 'leave one day of space between finishing and starting books*' went out the window (*its in large part because of my vision but also that I need to remember and notice that I have other responsibilities in life other than just feeding my reading addiction... at least the dog if not my kids...). But with this book, I closed book one, ordered book two and started reading it right away and well into the night! So here I am, the next afternoon, wondering if I have time before dinner to start with Book 3!
I rated the first of the 'Night's Champion' books somewhere between 3,5 - 4 stars, but 'Night's Fall' is easily a 4-star book where so far the sum of the parts of the two books together are definitely greater than the whole! Wow, what a ride! The action is even more exciting than the last book and the growing number of people that we genuinely care about - the ever-growing Pack! - are just so well-created and sympathetic! Even the back-and-forth banter is better than the last book and I'm not one for a big batch of banter! But dammit Parry, you made me shed a tear or three in this one! That is pretty rare for this genre ... I was just so into it!! I mean, how could you kill.... but I've said too much!
I compared Parry's works to various authors last time as well and I'll continue that here simply as a compliment: this is some serious shinola that left me with a lot of that 'terror-filled thrill' of Scott Sigler's 'Infection' books or even some of Larry Correia's 'Monster Hunter International' thrillers (noting a noticeable lack of weaponry-based porn). Even in this last case, as Correia is apt to do, if you want to see a plethora of different beasties and occult horrors cross the page, then this is one for you!
And hey: if various authors want to keep using Trump Tower in Chicago to have their 'kill all the human' antagonists set up their lairs (and ultimately destroy that monument to greed and ill-gotten gains), then by golly, be my guest! Granted I don't really feel much sympathy when its described that it's all blown up or burned or whatever else it deserves, but again, thar' ya' go!
You'll enjoy these books. 'Nuff said!
I rated the first of the 'Night's Champion' books somewhere between 3,5 - 4 stars, but 'Night's Fall' is easily a 4-star book where so far the sum of the parts of the two books together are definitely greater than the whole! Wow, what a ride! The action is even more exciting than the last book and the growing number of people that we genuinely care about - the ever-growing Pack! - are just so well-created and sympathetic! Even the back-and-forth banter is better than the last book and I'm not one for a big batch of banter! But dammit Parry, you made me shed a tear or three in this one! That is pretty rare for this genre ... I was just so into it!! I mean, how could you kill.... but I've said too much!
I compared Parry's works to various authors last time as well and I'll continue that here simply as a compliment: this is some serious shinola that left me with a lot of that 'terror-filled thrill' of Scott Sigler's 'Infection' books or even some of Larry Correia's 'Monster Hunter International' thrillers (noting a noticeable lack of weaponry-based porn). Even in this last case, as Correia is apt to do, if you want to see a plethora of different beasties and occult horrors cross the page, then this is one for you!
And hey: if various authors want to keep using Trump Tower in Chicago to have their 'kill all the human' antagonists set up their lairs (and ultimately destroy that monument to greed and ill-gotten gains), then by golly, be my guest! Granted I don't really feel much sympathy when its described that it's all blown up or burned or whatever else it deserves, but again, thar' ya' go!
You'll enjoy these books. 'Nuff said!
January 25, 2018
This was an awesome book. I really liked the first book but this one went beyond that. It has a very unique storyline. It is a supernatural thriller, Has a lot of action and some death, sad deaths. Val is a fighter for everything he believes in and some he doesn't understand. There are new characters in this one and not all of them are good. Evil wants to reign. Can't wait to read the next one.
February 7, 2022
Well this book made me sad, it killed two characters that I was starting to see as part of the pack. A shame really. The book does deliver what it promises but once again it feels like the synopsis talk about something that it’s different to the content of the book, even though everything it says it is in there. I am mainly disappointed in MC really for five years going around with 'The night' now when shit hits the fan is the only moment he decided to have a heart to heart talk with it? To actually learn from each other and not keep fighting all the time? So many thing could have been avoided if the sopped acting 'fearful' of none existence threats.
May 31, 2017
Different take on the title, not what I thought it might have been (science fiction). Thoroughly enjoyed this, fast paced, lots of action and out of context humour. To be kept on my again read list.
November 8, 2017
After the events of the first book i was very surprised to see how many more surprises are in store for our band of heroes. Parry has managed to do wonders in creating a new element in the supernatural community. Cant wait to see where he takes it for book 3
September 1, 2017
I don't read Zombie books but this one was really not what i expected. I enjoyed this book and the different perspective that it offers.
November 21, 2021
Delightful, heart warming.
Wonderful characters with great heart. The plot so intriguing that you had to finish but hated for it to end.
Wonderful characters with great heart. The plot so intriguing that you had to finish but hated for it to end.
September 18, 2019
Where do I start... Unexpected plot twists and turns. Depth of characters that speak from the heart. Clever dialogue. World building. All the good stuff that earn Richard Parry 5 star rating and another angel gets it wings. Although the story stretched reality a bit beyond the norm... Wait! How can I say that? I read science fiction for a hobby... This story gets down to some downright spooky voodoo stuff. I loved it. On to Night's End.
July 7, 2018
A great follow up to the first in the series. Loved the characters and the action.
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