MixedThe Cleveland Plain DealerNOS4A2 will pull you in from the first pages, and draw you away from your other responsibilities. If you are going to read it, make sure someone else is watching the kids. (And, for reasons that shall become clear, do make sure someone is watching them.) … Yet as electrifying as NOS4A2 is, Hill's take on vampires is not entirely satisfying. King's Salem's Lot worked because he brought an ancient evil into the modern world – and modernity proved unable to meet the challenge. While Hill's Manx is terrifying, he is a vampire in name only. Hill's talents for invention are evident in every other aspect of the story, and it is hard not to wish he had reimagined the legend, rather than discarding it almost entirely.
