Review (the Guradian)

(read: 27/Nov/11)

Prepare to enter a world full of richly imagined mythology—a world where dark and dangerous heroes fight to protect us.

Prepare to enter an endless battle.

Prepare to lose yourself...

                The Guardian

    Prod dets            

Dark-Hunter series, book 21

Pub: 2011, Piatkus (imprint of Little, brown Book Group)

Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon          

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (mid); 345 pp w/ 21 chapters

Whose: Seth & Lydia

Age Range: adult

                Synopsis

Dream-Hunter Lydia has been charged with the most dangerous of missions: to find the missing god of dreams before he betrays the secrets that could kill her and her kind. What she never expects is to be taken prisoner by the Nether Realm’s most vicious guardian.

Seth’s time is running out. If he can’t hand over the entrance to Olympus, his own life and those of his people will be forfeit. No matter the torture, Seth hasn’t been able to break the god in his custody. Now there’s Lydia. She isn’t just guarding the gates of Olympus, she’s holding back one of the world’s darkest powers. If she fails, an ancient curse will haunt the earth once more and no one will be safe. But evil is always seductive....

      my Thoughts (review)

What can I say... really, I’m a Kenyon fan, especially when it comes to her Dark-Hunter series, and this one didn’t disappoint. Not one bit.

A demi-god who has never been seen by anyone finally gets what he’s wanted most in the whole world, and even more so, something that he never thought he would get or be able to keep. And really the battle for his hope isn’t going to be easy, both body and soul.

Sold as a slave to Noir (the evil of the series at the moment, if you don’t know) some forty-five hundred years ago (if I can remember right) he’s known nothing but hatred and torture. It isn’t until he’s meets Lydia, or maybe it’s more so when she meets him that it turns his life around. But to turn someone’s life from as bad as Seth’s is to as good as he deserves, they have to piss off an angry god and run from a world of fear.

This is made a little easier because Lydia isn’t without her own powers, but.... actually to go into her might say too much. But she’s an amazing woman, hardened slightly by her own history; she’s still got a soft side to her. And even with her softness she’s hard as rock, ready to hurt anyone that hurts the ones she’s given her heart to. she’s brave and strong, and loving, caring, with a bit of stupidity that’s put her into the situation in the first place—though really can you call it stupidity when one meets there soul mate from it?

Seth on the other hand, isn’t really my type of man, I don’t think. he’s a little too soft, even when he’s angry or being mean, you understand it to a point that you get as pissed as Lydia does at all that have done this to him. But truly, right in his being, he’s a soft little cookie that only wants to be loved, and I don’t mean this is a bad way, but there’s something very soft about Seth, something that make you want to cry just because he doesn’t understand anything about tenderness.

It’s a great book in a way that they both don’t quite understand each other, while they do, but Seth doesn’t know anything and this is even more so about what to say and not to say to a woman. Which gets him in trouble, as well as what Lydia says that sets Seth off. But when it’s her doing it it’s truly because she’s not use to simple insults causing so much problems, and at least she sees it and fix’s it before it becomes a problem. With him... it’s just amusing as he tries to understand something that hasn’t got reasons behind them (cough, jealousy, cough).

It’s truly, like all Kenyon’s others, a beautiful book, if you don’t mind ready heartbreaking stories of love and war.

Series

Fantasy lover, Night Pleasure, Night Embrace, Dance with the Devil, Kiss of the Night, Night Play, Seize the Night, Sins of the Night, Unleashed the Night, Dark side of the moon, The Dream-Hunter, Upon the midnight Clear, Devil May Cry, Dream Chaser, Acheron, One Silent Night, Dream Warrior, Bad Moon Rising, No Mercy, Redemption, [tb], Untime Untime,

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