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...
Prod dets
Night Pleasure
Series: Dark-Hunter series, book 1
Pub: 2002, Piatkus (imprint of
Little, brown Book Group)
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (small); 338 pp
w/ 20 chapters
Whose: Kyrian & Amanda
Age Range: adult
Synopsis
Amanda Devereaux has a
unique family. Her mother and older siblings are witches and psychics, and her
twin sister is a vampire hunter. All Amanda wants is a quiet, normal life, but
when she finds herself the target of an attack meant for her twin, she wakes to
find herself handcuffed to a sexy, blond stranger. And while Amanda’s first
thought is that this might be another of her sister’s attempts at extreme
matchmaking, it soon becomes clear that Kyrian of Trace is not boyfriend
material.
For Kyrian is a Dark-Hunter:
an immortal warrior who has traded his soul for one moment of vengeance upon
his enemies. He spends his eternal days hunting the vampires and deimons that
prey upon mankind, and he is currently on the hunt for a very old and deadly
diamond 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...
Thoughts
First read: So Kyrian is a man with
some issues, though mostly coming from how he died than anything else, ‘cause
man it was a little messy (emotionally, more than grotty).
This book starts out with
them lock together by God chains, because the bad guy thinks Amanda to be her
twin sister Tabitha. Then they are let out, they run, hide (from the sun) and
get free all to have Kyrian have to make sure Amanda stays safe (this is the
typical story of the series, so if I didn’t get the full right I’m sure down
the line it will come). He just can’t help himself.
Now the most of this book is
about Amanda realising that she doesn’t want to settle for safe and normal
(surprise), where Kyrian has so many more problem and so the book swings more
towards him and working them out.
The best part of this is the
fact that we really get into the sarcastic twist to her characters and the
bitchy male roles—really most of all the male in these books have a very bitchy
attitude to the world (though being that they were man, it’s probably them
being a bastard, right?)
It’s about forgetting your
past for something much more enjoyable—life, love!
This time: I just love this book.
Really, it’s great; a book that goes from standard and into what the series is
all about—Dark-Hunters.
You get to meet some of the
characters that become big threw the series, as well as Julian, because him and
Kyrian have a history. It also has a bit into the them, into that relationship
and a reconnecting.
Along with batty siblings
and a power inside that she’s always tried to hide; this book is great, though
I’m on two hands about Amanda. Really, she’s not my most favourite of female
rolls.
Really, she’s a little to
one sided for my liking, but that’s totally a character thing and I wouldn’t
particularly like her as a person where I only have to hear the hypocritical
things that come out of their mouths rather than hearing where they came from.
Though Amanda isn’t that
bad, really she isn’t, just swings towards that way and it’s annoying because
as a female she annoys me.
But enough about this, and I
do believe that a lot of my thoughts on this one actually come from a book
that’s coming up in the series rather than the one I have in my hands. Only you
can’t get rid of what you already know, and so you always see more.
I love the series, it’s
great, inventive, and fresh at every turn and deep, none of the characters had peaceful
lives. They were brought into the world of a Dark-Hunter by an act of betrayal.
A deep one, a brotherly one that makes them scream out for a vengeance so
strong it rings in the ears of the gods.
It’s that, the pain and
suffering that brought them into this world that makes these books, this
series, so great. The fact that every book is about them coming to terms and
finally moving on from there past to live.
That’s what makes this
series so good, that pain, that past. And this is only the tip iceberg of what’s
to come.
It’s a series so worth it’s the
money and time to read. It’s great!
Series
Fantasy Lover, [tb], 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, fear of the
darkness, Upon the Midnight Clear, Devil May Cry, Dream Chaser, Acheron, One
Silent Night, Dream Warrior, Bad Moon Rising, No Mercy, Redemption, The
Guardian, Time Untime,
Related stories: The Beginning, Phantom
Lover, Dark-Hunter Christmas, Winter Born, Second Chance, Love at First Bite, A
Hard Day’s Night-Searcher, the Dark-Hunter companion, Blood Lite, shadow of the
Moon, Dragonswan, in Other Worlds, Until Death We Do Part
☼☼☼
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