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Night Pleasures
Amanada Devereaux has a crazy family. Her other and older siblings are witches and psychics, and her twin sister is a vampire hunter. All Amanda wants is a quiet, normal life. Only when she finds herself the target of an attack meant for her twin, she wakes to find herself handcuffed to a sex, blonde stranger.
He is Kyrian of Thrace. And while Amanda’s first thought is that this might be another of her sister’s attempts at extreme matchmaking, it soons becomes clear that Kyrian is not boyfriend material.
He is a Dark-Hunter: an immortal warrior who has traded his soul for one moment of vengeance upon his enemies. Kyrian spends his eternal days hunting the vampires and daimons that prey upon mankind. He is currently on the hunt for a very old aneadly daimon named Desiderius who has deemed it sport to handcuff Kyrian to a human while he hunts him. Now Kyrian and Amanda must find a way to break their bond before they give into their dangerous attraction to one another. Or Desiderius kills them both. . .
The first true Dark Hunter novel from Sherrilyn Kenyon opens well, with characters who were introduced in the previous novel - Fantasy Lover. Expanding on her world she brings in Kyrian - already mentioned in Fantasy Lover as a friend of Julian’s - who can be quite amusing when the mood takes him. The story follows Kyrian and Amanda through an escapade of evading daimons while being handcuffed together, finding a way to detach the cuffs while avoiding daylight - which is deadly to Dark Hunters - and the daimon hunting them.
Night Pleasures is quite a shallow read with a lot of character potential left unused, which is a shame. There are moments when the story flows nicely but then will jerk to an abrupt stop as if Kenyon lost her focus or her feel for the storyline. But the bonus is the introduction to Acheron (affectionately known as Ash by the Dark Hunters). This character has all the depth and fascination that her lead characters are missing. It’s obvioius a lot of thought has gone into Ash and, if you stick with the series, you’ll see (out of all her characters) Ash becoming more and more defined as time goes by.
Once again, we have a book that has a lot of untapped potential from Sherrilyn Kenyon but, if you’re not wanting something that takes a lot of concentration, it’s well worth a read.
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