This review is for the audiobook version of Nightshifted by Cassie Alexander, read by Tai Sammons . This wasn’t very good, but it was fine for trying to get to sleep. The premise is interesting, but I didn’t find the characters compelling. Edie Spence is a nurse working at County Hospital in the “special” ward in exchange for a magical entity keeping her brother off drugs. She encounters all kinds of creatures in need of medical attention: vampires, shape shifters, were-beasts, and zombies, to name a few.
After a nursing error results in the death of a patient, Edie is compelled to search for a child vampire the patient had been trying to rescue for over one hundred years. She of course runs into problems along the way, as well as a few romantic interests, a rampaging dragon and an enchanted German language CD (which is never explained or resolved).
The cast of supporting characters at the hospital has potential, but they aren’t given enough time to be interesting, nor is the family of were-dogs. I think streamlining the story and giving more time to the interplay between characters would have led to a more enjoyable book. The deal she made with “the shadows” to keep her brother clean seemed unnecessary and maybe a little confusing.
The reader did an ok job, but it might just be that the book needed better editing to make things flow better. I’m a sucker for a series, but I won’t be checking out the second in this one.