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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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It might sound like a man’s favourite fantasy - to live forever, destinated to be the lover of thousands of women. But for Julian oMacedon, it’s a nightmare. Once he was a proud Spartan general, now he’s a love-slave, his essence magically held captive in a book, cursed to spend all eternity pleasing women. Then, one day, Grace Alexander summons Julian to fulfil her passionate dreams - and sees beyond the fantasy to the man himself.Long years as a sex therapist, listening to other people’s bedroom problems, has taken a lot of the fun out of hte physical side of love for Grace. She’s remarkably understanding about Julian’s situation - and that’s disconcerting for all concerned. With or without sex, the rules of the enchantment cannot be changed. Julian is hers for the next month. And, as their time together slips by, Julian and grace find more to share than sympathy and conversation - and they begin to wonder if love might be within their grasp. That leaves only one question. Is love enough to break a 2,000 year-old curse?
The book that kicks off the Dark Hunter series - although it doesn’t actually have a Dark Hunter theme to it. I found the whole story a little silly, if I’m honest. While the concept appealed to the book-lover in me - man stuck inside a book for all eternity - I though the “only to be called out to be a sex-slave for women” part a little silly. But, really, this sets the standard for the majority of Kenyon’s books - the main focus being to have the two main leads to have sex together. When Kenyon forgot about the sex, she turned the story into an amusing piece of fiction with likable characters but it’s never long before the writing returns to sex or, in the case of this particular book, sexual frustration as Grace refuses to use Julian as her sex slave.
For all its faults - it reads like this is the first time Kenyon has put pen to paper and written a book - there are some scenes that did actually make me laugh out loud as I imagined the situations, eg when Grace tries to teach Julian to drive.
Fantasy Lover is certainly not the best book in the Dark Hunter series but it does give a glimpse of the potential just waiting to spill out. Pick this book up with no expectations other than a lighthearted read and you won’t be disappointed.
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Dark Hunter Series
- Fantasy Lover
- The Beginning (found in the back of Sins of the Night)
- Dragonswan
- Night Pleasures
- Night Embrace
- Phantom Lover (in the anthology Midnight Pleasures)
- Dance with the Devil
- A Dark Hunter Christmas (found in early editions of dance with the Devil)
- Kiss of the Night
- Night Play
- Winter Born (in the anthology Stroke of Midnight)
- Seize the Night
- Sin of the Night
- Second Chances (was available in free give-away exclusive Dark-Hunter collectable booklet)
- Unlease the Night
- Dark side of the Moon
- A Hard Day’s Night Searcher (in the anthology My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding)
- Until Death We Do Part (in the anthology Love at First Bite)
- Fear The Darkness (free e-book)
- The Dream Hunter
- Devil May Cry
- Upon The Midnight Clear
- The Dark Hunter Companion (co-author with Alethea Kontis)
- Dream Chaser
- Acheron (not yet released)