Nightseer

If the Anita Blake series is Hamilton's talents in full flower, then Nightseer is little more than an amateurish first novel that attained publishable status by virtue of the author's later success. It is not so much a bad novel as it is an embarassing one; clumsy and awkward and heavy-handed like a teenager's first dates, the occasional moments of skillful writing are not worth wading through the adolescent wish-fulfillment. Only a completist should consider this one.