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Summary: Great read
Review: I love the DH series, but I read them more for the sci-fi elements than the love stories. I think SK does a great job of making men who could start seeming quite identical, unique and quirky. I've never been a huge romance novel reader, so perhaps that is why I'm more forgiving of some of the issues other readers had with this book. It's pretty obvious at this point that there will be a DH who's closed off and then he'll meet his 'savior' and they'll live happily ever after. Now I just read for the backstory aka what the heck is Ash? That being said, I was kinda hoping for a different ending. (QUASI SPOILER) I don't want to ruin it for those who haven't read it yet, but I like that element of not knowing everything will turn out great (I'm a fan of Anita Blake if that's a clue). This would have been the perfect opportunity to have a DH lose his love, but he carries on anyway because he has to. Again, since these are marketed as romance novels, I'll get over it as things typically turn out great in this genre.
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Summary: I was just so disappointed!!!
Review: First off, Sherrilyn Kenyon is one of the authors who cause me to become a major annoyance to booksellers just about every month. I always anticipate the release of a new book! I have absolutely loved the first three installments to the dark-hunter series. This one, however, was a major disappointment. It really didn't deliver on character or story development. There were just these unnecessary and frequent references to her other books and the website. That was difficult to overlook!
I agree with the other reviewer who holds out hope for Valerius' story. I am still anxious about how these characters develop. Particularly Acheron's tale. Please don't bring in the Fabulous Four Hunks from the first books just for a meaningless appearance. That seemed so contived; and, it detracted form my "vision" of these Magnificent Men.
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Summary: Kenyon weaves her Magic & Adds to her Dark-Hunter Allure
Review: The passion and intrigue of the Dark-Hunter series was just enhanced with the release of "Kiss of the Night". Suspenseful, Enthralling, Riveting are just a few words to describe the latest contribution from Ms. Kenyon. She continues to spin an incredible tale of an amazing Dark-Hunter world, all the while adding explanations of the Apollite/Daimon/Dark-Hunter relationship in addition to weaving further mysteries to keep us enticed. This book will not disappoint as Cassandra and Wulf must decide right from wrong and that the correct decision is not always so clear cut. The processes both characters must undergo to arrive at their decision is so heart wrenching and was painted so expertly by Ms. Kenyon, it felt as though the reader was the one, who was actually wrestling with the dilemma. New enticing characters are introduced, but tempting old friends make an appearance to round out the intrigue and contribute humor and amusement. This action-packed, enthralling drama with passionate romance can stand alone, as well as it paints additional mystery to a captivating back-story of a mythical world. Kiss of the Night will captivate and will leave you desiring more stories in addition to wishing the time to move much more quickly till the next Dark-Hunter release date. Highly Recommended!! A Must Read!!
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Summary: Sherrilyn never disappoints!
Review: I really enjoyed the charachters of Wulf and Cassandra. I did feel the love scenes were a little flat, especially compared to her past charachters, they were not nearly as good as Talon's & Sunshine's for example.
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I was a bit confused & let down by the ending, Ash once again saves the day and helps ensure that Wulf finds his true happiness. It's starting to make you wonder why the DH worry so much about their futures with Ash around. It's also unclear with what truly happened when Cassie and Wulf saved each other by the mutual feed. I don't get why this saved them, and what there state is now, are they human, yet immortal?
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The fight scenes were great and I enjoy the cameo appearances by the other dark hunters, it keeps these awesome heros alive. As always Ash kicks butt, I simply can't wait to hear his story.
I personally don't mind her mentioning D-H.com, if you've checked out that website and are a true SK fan you will know that the website really helps the heros come off the page so to speak.
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Summary: Good, but...
Review: Before I start this review let me just state for the record that this is the first ever DH story I've read so a lot of my confusion may come from the fact that I jumped into the series late. I'm waiting for Amazon to send me the other books now so I can get a more complete picture. However, I've been a fan of Sherrilyn Kenyon for a while now due to her many helpful books for writers, including "The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook" and "A Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages". Both of which I use religiously. So when I was browsing Amazon one day and found out she actually wrote vampire romances (my favorite) I couldn't resist! That said, I decided to start with "Kiss of the Night" because it won me over as soon as I read the synopsis. What a great idea for a dark romance! A gorgeous, brooding (they're always brooding haha), immortal Viking warrior named Wulf Tryggvason (still can't figure out how to pronounce the last name LOL) no one can remember five minutes after he leaves the room ends up saving an Apollite princess, Cassandra Peters, from a gang of soul-sucking vampire thugs (it took a while for me to realize what Daimons actually were LOL). The thing that blew me away is that Cassandra, being an Apollite, is destined to die on her 27th birthday like the rest of her accursed race. The problem with that is since she is a direct descendant of the God Apollo himself if she dies without heirs so does the Sun and obviously the rest of the world. OK, now that I had the basic stuff down I dived into the book with relish. Unfortunately the first few pages did more to confuse me than anything else. I have to admit I am a mythology buff and some of the back-story Sherri reveals about the gods and how the curse came about could have used a bit more detail. I actually had to reread it several times before I got it all straight; partly because I kept comparing it to other myths I've read. Granted they didn't make much sense either (most myths never do) but let me assure you if you're still confused after a few rereads then just go on with the rest of the book. Like me, you'll eventually pick up enough to catch on. **WARNING: SMALL SPOILERS AHEAD** The writing style also threw me off at first. It's so in your face today -- with modern slang and references included -- that it honestly took a minute for me to get use to but once I did I found it very refreshing and fun. The fight scenes were good too. Very Matrix/Buffy/Angel style. Especially the drag down, knock out fight between Acheron and Stryker. Talk about edge of your seat action! I've become an instant Ash fan! Which also leads to one of my complaints. Ash seems way too convenient to have in this series. Especially when he helps Cassandra at the very end. It felt more like a cheat to me than a true happy ending. Not to mention, I really didn't feel it made much sense but maybe that's because I'm unclear on exactly what Cassandra becomes. Because, as far as I know, once the lips turn blue a body's dead. If that happens the system shuts down and having babies for the undead womb is literally impossible. However, it seems to me Ash has the power to grant a lot of things. I'm starting to wonder if he's some form of Death incarnate or a God himself, which would really explain his scenes with Artemis and the whole Simi thing. The problem is it breaks the rules Sherri sets for the series in my opinion. If Ash can just set things right whenever they go wrong then all the struggling and angst Wulf and Cassandra went through seems rather pointless to me, if not downright unkind. However, she did do a very good job exploring their angst at losing each other and Cassandra's fear of dying. I shed a tear a few times. **END OF SMALL SPOILERS** The only other complaints I have are the Dark-Hunter.com web site name dropping every five minutes (which seemed more like shameless self-promotion to me and got annoying after a while) and the sex scenes. I know -- what? I hate to say this but I'm afraid they just didn't turn me on much at all and that's bad for a romance novel. Honestly the sex always felt kind of dumped in there between the main plot and the rest of the story. Of course, the dream sequences were part of the main plot but even they left me high and dry. I never got to focus on them long enough to get involved. There was no lingering, teasing passion building to a climax. Basically, it never felt like they were making love. It always felt like they just... I dunno... f@#$ked. In fact, I actually found myself skimming sex a few times just to get back to the main story which, now that I look back, is a bit disappointing. A romance novel is supposed to make you hot and I have a few novels I've read in the past that had no problem turning my crank so to speak. This one just... didn't. I'm still very excited about the series and can't wait for the other books to arrive. I have a feeling they'll become my favorite in vampire romance. This book is a light, fun read but BUYER BEWARE -- this is not Anne Rice so if you're a Rice fan and looking for the next Queen of Darkness you'll probably do better elsewhere. However, if you love Buffy and Angel then this series will definitely do something for you. I, personally, can't wait to find out what Ash is!
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Summary: Something of a mess...
Review: Whew. I'm not sure why I keep buying Sherrilyn Kenyon's books. I feel kind of like a sucker after this one, and even though I am particularly interested in a couple of characters in the series and would like to know how their stories turn out, I don't know how many more of these things I'm going to buy. Maybe I'll compromise and buy them used instead of new. Anyway... The main love story in this book fell flat, and any real conflict between them was, for all intents and purposes, resolved way too early. (...) For the first three books, the Dark Hunter world was knit together fairly well, but with this book, I think it's starting to unravel around the edges. The next books need to tie up some of the apparent inconsistencies in the world instead of bringing in more mysterious events and secondary characters. I mean, just how many people still running around in the present time were born on Acheron's birthday, anyway? And why isn't Apollo a little more concerned about his last descendant's death? Come to think of it, if Cassandra's death means Apollo's death and therefore the end of the whole world, why aren't whole pantheons of gods protecting her? Peeves, in no particular order:
- The author's habit of advertising her other pseudonym's books and her web site. She does it in almost every one of her SK books, and I find this incredibly cheesy.
- Simi. She is tolerable only in extremely small doses.
- Black clothing, black leather, blah, blah, blah. I find myself thinking longingly of Valerius' story, since it sounds like his wardrobe is a bit more varied. I hope he doesn't turn into a leather addict by the time his book comes out.
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Summary: When love comes with an expiry date...
Review: In this latest of Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series, we meet again Wulf Tryggvason, whom we encountered very briefly in Talon's story - in fact, we have the same phone conversation again, only this time from Wulf's point of view. A tiny bit repetitive, but I can live with that. Wulf is a Viking, tricked into becoming a Dark-Hunter twelve centuries ago, and one who carries one additional curse: no-one who is not a Dark-Hunter or an Apollite or of his own family can remember him five minutes after they leave him. Then he meets Cassandra Peters - who does remember him. They share several highly erotic dreams - and then he discovers that she's half-Apollite. An Apollite, who is destined to die on her 27th birthday, unless she decides to become a Daimon. And she's already 26... If she becomes Daimon, Wulf will have to hunt her down and kill her. If she doesn't, then she'll die. And, as if those aren't difficult enough things to contend with, two more problems get thrown into the mix: Cassandra is the last living heir of Apollo, and if she dies, or dies without leaving an heir, the world will end. And then Acheron informs Wulf that Cassandra is pregnant - and he's the father. The fascinating thing about Kiss of the Night is the insight we get - as does Wulf - into the Daimons. Thus far, the equation has been simple: Daimons are demons. Killer vampires who must be eliminated for the safety of humankind. But what makes an Apollite turn Daimon? Well, could it possibly be the thought of dying a long and painful death at the age of 27? And are all Daimons evil? Well, we meet one who isn't - and that's a story I sense hasn't finished yet. Of course, there's also more Acheron, and yet more intriguing hints about who he is, the kind of powers he has and the real power-balance between him and Artemis. In previous books, he's had to dance to Artemis's tune rather more than the other way around, but here he's more forceful than he has been. I have the sneaking suspicion that Kenyon intends to wait as long as possible before giving us Acheron's own story, though. Good book - not a five-star like Zarek's story, but very readable. wmr-uk
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Summary: I can't believe it - Kenyon only gets better!
Review: After several books in a successful series, you sometimes fear that the books will fall into a predictable formula, but this book proves that Sherrilyn Kenyon continues to be an original! First, let me tell you that I have every one of her Dark-Hunter books and I LOVE them. But Kiss of the Night was the first of the series to make me cry! (and as a life-long reader, that doesn't happen very often at all). I laughed, sniffed and cheered the entire time. The moving story of Wulf and Cassandra shred my heart and put all the pieces back together, but I loved every minute of it. All of the previous books are fantastic, but this book goes beyond the surface story and deals with the darker emotions of despair and anguish that exist below the surface of the world of the Hunter. This is the first of the stories that took me on a roller coaster ride with the book in one hand, and a box of tissues in the other - keeping me enchanted every single minute! This time Kenyon raises the stakes even higher, teasing us with a glimpse into new background characters and stories, and shows her readers that we have only just begun to explore the world of the Hunter Legends! The journey has only just begun!
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Summary: TMI - Too much information
Review: I love all of the dark hunter books. However, I didn't "feel" or enjoy this book as much as I have the others because I was trying to absorb the clues and details. Each book is beginning to feel more like a piece of a puzzle than a book. A little frustrating, but still worth it to read. I recommend reading the other books first or this book will be confusing. Since I think this book is a lead into another, I can't wait for the next one. I just hope the next book has more feeling and depth like the others.
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Summary: Another "I can't put this book down" book from Kenyon
Review: All of Kenyon's books are mind tingling interesting, so Kiss of the Night is also. Wulf, a DH who never died (and therefore isn't bound by the same rules) falls for a half human, half Apollite, Cassandra, who is going to die in a few months. She is the last in a long line of very important Apollites, and if she dies, the sun dies too. You know who would love to see that happen. Wulf must protect her, especially since she carries his child. Wulf learns that not all Apollites are bad (and Daimons, for that matter) You will fall in love with both characters and a lot of the mysteries surrounding Ash, the Dark-Hunters, and Apollites are uncovered...but, then again, many more mysteries are introduced. Also, many of our loved heros from past books make a few intros. This was probably the best Dark-Hunter novel yet.
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