Due to the fact that Halloween was around the corner, I decided it’d be a wise idea to dip my toes into the young-adult horror genre. And, although this may not have been the greatest, Nightfall wasn’t a completely disappointing start.
Firstly, the initial premise caught my attention straight away, I found it hard to envisage a world in which the day/night cycle is more than 24 hours, a world where people had to abandon their homes, and move across an ocean just due to it being nighttime. I found myself sometimes thinking “Oh, just wait till morning, then go do what you need to do”, then realising that the characters have to wait 14 years for ‘the morning’, by which time the situation would be completely irrelevant. Additionally, the opening
Firstly, the initial premise caught my attention straight away, I found it hard to envisage a world in which the day/night cycle is more than 24 hours, a world where people had to abandon their homes, and move across an ocean just due to it being nighttime. I found myself sometimes thinking “Oh, just wait till morning, then go do what you need to do”, then realising that the characters have to wait 14 years for ‘the morning’, by which time the situation would be completely irrelevant. Additionally, the opening