This was a fun "blast to the past", the past being the 80's in Miami and Tampa Florida. The story was still fresh enough to be interesting.

Just realized I read this one back in my 90's life of horror paperbacks galore. No remembrance of it, but considering it's Brian Hodge, it has a good chance of being rather on the better side.

A book that somehow manages to balance violent crime with Uber schlocky creature horror and still manages to have slow parts. Not a bad little book all things considered

Stephen King endorsed the entire Dell Abyss Horror line. Here is his blurb: "Thank you for introducing me to the remarkable line of novels currently being issued under Dell's Abyss imprint. I have given a great many blurbs over the last twelve years or so, but this one marks two firsts: first unsolicited blurb (I called you) and the first time I have blurbed a whole line of books. In terms of quality, production, and plain old story-telling reliability (that's the bottom line, isn't it), Dell's

4.5 starsAn extremely well-written novel that infuses modern day man, ancient tribal beliefs, and the supernatural. I felt that the direction this story took was unexpected, and loved that aspect of it! My only complaint was that about mid-way through, it was beginning to feel like just "another thriller story". This wasn't enough for me to contemplate NOT finishing it, but I was pleasantly surprised when it turned around from something that seemed "commonplace" to something altogether different...

A new drug has arrived in Florida from the deep jungles of South America, and Justin Gray, a convicted drug dealer and recovering user from St. Louis trying to make a new life for himself, is introduced to it by a local dealer. He witnesses its use in a nightclub, along with its animalistic, murderous aftereffects, and then finds himself engaged in a war with the dealer. Justin finds himself allied with a South American native and the woman with whom he is developing a relationship, along with t...

What begins as a crime thriller morphs into something from Kolchak: the Nightstalker, when a new drug with serious side effects hits the streets in this early work by Brian Hodge. Engaging characters, some of the best writing in the horror genre, and the strong possibility that this novel is the inspiration for RELIC make this a must read. Highly recommended!

"Miami Vice" meets "Crocodile Dundee" only with more were-piranhas.

I was really excited to read this book; the 90s nightclub scene and a drug that turns people into half-human half-animal?! Sounds bloody brilliant. And the book does start off that way which I really enjoyed. However, the story turns into more of a cat and mouse thriller while the shapeshifting took a back seat. I did enjoy the writing and there were moments that were excellent but the story did get a bit slow from time to time. Overall I was expecting a lot more 'nightlife' from this book than

This title was the second in line published from the highly-regarded Dell/Abyss series that ran around 40 paperback original novels from 1991 to 1995. It came on the spurs of the now-legendary The Cipher by Kathe Koja, admittedly an impossible act to follow. Nightlife, author Hodge's 3rd novel, has a similar theme of transformation, but the main direction seems to be at a genre crossroads. The vehicle driven is Horror, but it keeps fishtailing into Crime alleyways. As a result, character stereot...

While the book's cover blurb did not really do Nightlife justice, it still proved to be an absorbing read. Hodge is something of a wordsmith, and unlike most horror novels of this era (published in 1991) the character building is superb. Definitely a strange tale, and one of moral failure and redemption to boot. We start off in the rain forests of Venezuela with a tribe of Yanomamo about to raid another tribe (I will skip all the complicated names). The Yanomamo employ a peculiar dried bark comp...

I really like horror books that are set with a “Hot tropical” feel! This and Stephen King's Duma Key. Kool, hot, humid clear blue waves and lots and lots of horror! Loved this story Miami vice style! I felt like I was right there with them really well written. The plot was out of this world.

Night Life by Brian Hodge was my first Hodge read and, although I did not enjoy it all that much, I am definitely going to read more of his work. The book had a very interesting prologue but quickly lost my interest when it began talking about the drug around which the story revolves because it, for some reason, transforms its users into half-human half-beast-like creatures. The novel had the feel of the few novels I have read dealing with drugs or hard rock groups in that it is very dreamy. Ent...

good book some good descriptive transformations in the book. the only problem I had with the book was that the beginning of the book was a little boring to my taste but overall a good book. the ending was very good though but also very left it on a cliffhanger which leaves the story open for another book.

I read this book with my Shelfari group. Coming off the high of Whom the Gods Would Destroy, I was excited to tackle another Hodge book.This story is difficult to describe, so I'm going to leave that to the book's description and stick with my feelings on the story here. I enjoyed the creativity and imagination of the concept. I also enjoyed how the tale turned into something completely different than what I expected. Hodge's prose is always excellent, but I think it's more polished now than it

The Beast UnleashesA drug that turns you into a creature of the night. Lots of shockers in this story. The chase, the suspense, the drama is all there. I’ll have to check out more of this author’s work.

There's all kinds of Florida Man this and Tampa, death metal and strip clubs that that you could say about this novel, but right now I'm stupid to come up with a clever remark to sell this book to you. Maybe (hopefully) the "vibes" wave has crested and crashed somewhere on some sunny Floridian shore, but irregardless, for lack of vocabulary, this novel's got the late 80s/early 90's vibes, the sleeze, video stores, night clubs, cocaine and advertising, punky bondagewear, spirit animals, the anthr...

Dell Abyss Book 2/43listen, look at the jacket cover and tell me this book doesn’t have promise, because its premise alone kicks ass. weird experimental horror about a body mutating substance from the Amazon smuggled as drugs into Florida rules, like an A+ idea for sure especially as the second Dell Abyss title.now, the book starts of great as well, Brian Hodge is a solid writer and I’m here for his frantic style that goes along with our main character, and honestly his characters are strong as

A very entertaining read. Everything I've read by Hodge has been fantastic thus far.

-La resaca de lo ochentero puede ser suave pero no deja de ser resaca.-Género. Narrativa fantástica.Lo que nos cuenta. Unos narcotraficantes colombianos consiguen hacerse con varios kilos de una sustancia que usa la tribu de los yanomamö, en las junglas del sur de Venezuela, con fines rituales. La llegada de la droga a Florida revelará sus mortales capacidades para sacar el animal interior de las personas y el responsable de su comercialización en territorio estadounidense descubrirá que puede a...