Review: Children of the Dark 2: The Night Flyers

Children of the Dark 2: The Night Flyers by Jonathan Janz
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My name is Will Burgess, and if you don’t believe what I’m about to tell you, congratulations, you’re in the majority.
-- Jonathan Janz, Children of the Dark 2: The Night Flyers

Children of the Dark 2: The Night Flyers is another ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ action-packed horror/thriller by Jonathan Janz. This sequel to Children of the Dark continues the tale of Will Burgess, picking up a little more than a year after the murderous rampage of the monstrous Children, an ancient evil long rumored to inhabit the woods around his hometown of Shadeland.

For the last 13 months 16-year old Will has been confined to The Sunny Woods Rehabilitation Center, separated from his young sister Sophia (who prefers to be called Peach), and those few of his Shadeland friends who survived the original attacks. Locked away from all he knows and loves, he wants nothing more than to be reunited with Peach and to be able to live a normal life - but his government captors want to keep him imprisoned so that he can't cast doubt on their fabricated cover story of the previous summer's events... or on more recent attacks. The only problem with their plans is that the Children haven't gone away, and now winged creatures - the Night Flyers - are also on the hunt for Will.

in Children of the Dark 2: The Night Flyers Janz brings back some familiar characters and introduces some wonderful, and some wonderfully hateful, new ones as well. As this high-intensity, tension-packed tale story unfolds, Will and his allies find that The Children and the Night Flyers aren't the only monsters they have to contend with.

I found myself completely wrapped up in the story, racing through the book and reluctant to put it down. Janz's writing brings to life the love, fear, desperation, courage and determination of Will and his friends; the horrific terror and ravening violence of the Children and the Night Flyers; and the betrayal and hypocrisy of those who believe the ends always justify the means.

Highly recommended.

I recommend reading Janz's first book in this series, Children of the Dark, before beginning this sequel.My spoiler-free review of that book is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...).

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