Maureen's Reviews > The Children of Darkness

I’m a huge fan of dystopian novels. I love to read about a futuristic world where everything is different. The fun thing, if you ask me, about dystopian novels is that, although it sometimes really is unimaginable, there’s always a part of you that thinks that a world created in a dystopian novel could be possible. When I read the book description of ‘The Children of Darkness’ that was definitely the feeling I got. So I signed up for the blog tour and couldn’t wait to start reading.

The beginning of ‘The Children of Darkness’ took some getting used too. It was interesting but also a little strange and a little slow. But because I was fascinated with the friendship between Orah, Nathaniel and Thomas, and because I was intrigued by the ‘darkness’ I kept on going and began to enjoy this book more and more with every page. The strange part was definitely the way the people were reciting all these sentences they learned from the moment they could speak. It really gave me the creeps.

‘The Children of Darkness’ definitely is a fun dystopian novel. I really enjoyed getting to know this futuristic world. The author really did a great job with creating this world. I’m especially impressed with the way the author described the vicars. The vicars of the Temple of Light just really freaked me out. They were supposedly the bringers of peace but they are definitely not what they claim to be. I mean they supposedly bring the peace, but when you don’t do what they expect you are being taken to go for a ‘teaching’. Something that changes everyone who’s been there. I was really happy when the main characters were getting suspicious about their way of life. The people definitely needed to find out what the deal was.

The one thing that was a little disappointing about the book was the way it missed a little bit of action. It’s not that this book was bad, but it just that I expected more action when I read the book description. It felt a little mellow at times. And action is also what I kind-of expect when I start reading a dystopian book. But missing a little bit of action definitely did not make me not like this story. Not at all. This book was well thought of, the writing was done really well and the characters were interesting enough to make me want to keep on reading.

‘The Children of Darkness’ definitely is a fun science fiction dystopian novel I would recommend!!