The opening chapters of The Night Hunt are written in short, sharp sentences and in the present tense from the alternating perspectives of Atia, an immortal who feeds on fear and nightmare and (as the last of her kind) hides in the shadows of the world to escape the wrath of the vengeful Gods, and Silas, a Herald carrying messages and ferrying the dead as punishment for a past he can't recall.
As monsters converse while hunting humans to feed off, the concise writing style ensures that the pace of the narrative, which promises to take mythological characters and twist them to create something new as Atia and Silas go from enemies to allies, is unrelenting, while the use of the present tense (as well as italics for emphasis) adds excitement and immediacy to proceedings as well as giving the story a cinematic/theatrical quality that might translate well to film and/or stage.
As monsters converse while hunting humans to feed off, the concise writing style ensures that the pace of the narrative, which promises to take mythological characters and twist them to create something new as Atia and Silas go from enemies to allies, is unrelenting, while the use of the present tense (as well as italics for emphasis) adds excitement and immediacy to proceedings as well as giving the story a cinematic/theatrical quality that might translate well to film and/or stage.