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The Night Children (2000)

by Alexander Gordon Smith(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: First of, this is a good short story, combining the Second World War and ghost / supernatural events.It's as well written as everything the author does, there's some good characters, some nice twists, a decent plot and everything else. However, I just can't see where, or indeed why, it fits into the "Escape From the Furnace" series. It really doesn't give any extra background information about the characters form those books, although it doesn't detracts anything either. I'm not even sure in which order of the series you should read this. It's numbered as 0.5 which chronologically is correct but I doubt it would make sense to read it before "Lockdown" (book #1), as it just won't make sense for there's no explanations, meaning that some fore-knowledge of the series is neede... mored. But to read it anywhere else would be a destruction from the main plot for the reasons mentioned above. However there is one thing that bugs me about this more than anything else, and which is never really either explained or explored. And what's the connection between the character in this, and the one in the main series that share the same last name? And, no, I don't mean Warden Cross!
review 2: Amazing, gives you a great background if you haven't started the Escape From Furnace series yet. And if you have, it clarifies unanswered questions about the meeting of Alfred Furnace & Warden Cross. Like in the series, you feel as if you're really there, during the war. Watching everything happen & discovering the "Night Children". If you haven't read the series yet, once you start, you'll notice similarites between the Night Children & the creatures Furnace has created. less

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