Dark-Hunter:
an immortal warrior who has traded his soul to Artemis for one moment of
vengeance on his enemies. In return, they swear to spend eternity protecting
mankind from the daimons and vampires that prey on them.
Prod dets
Seize
the Night
Series: Dark-Hunter, book 6
Pub: 2004, Piatkus (imprint of Little, brown
Book Group)
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (small); 325 pp w/ 19
chapters
Whose: Valerius & Tabitha
Age Range: adult
Synopsis
Valerius
isn’t a popular Dark-hunter – he’s a Roman, which means that the largely Greek
Hunters have a major grudge against him and his civilization for superseding
them. To make things worse, he’s very conscious of his aristocratic background
and breeding. So it serves him right when he runs into Tabitha Devereaux. She’s
sassy, sexy, and completely unwilling to take him seriously. (Not to mention
Tabitha is also the sister-in-law of Kyrian, a former Dark-Hunter and Vals’
mortal enemy.)
What
Tabitha does take seriously is hunting and killing vampires, and soon she and
Val have to grapple with the deadliest of all daimons – on who’s managed to
come back from the dead, and one who holds a serious grudge against both of
them. To win against evil, Val will have to loosen up, learn to trust, and put
everything on the line to protect a man he hates and a woman who drives him
nuts.
Thoughts
This
is another one of those stories that makes you really see why you
shouldn’t judge someone by the façade they show the world.
It’s
also a book so filled with not only the storyline of the two lovers but the
storyline from past books and books to come. This is a break point in the
series. And one of the reasons I recon you should read it that way you get the
full information. But it’s not....necessary.
The
two main characters are perfect for each other. A man who has never seemed to
be able to help anyone no matter how hard he tried and a woman whose so full of
energy people generally can’t keep up. But the compassion and I think Tabitha’s
gifts help open Val up to possibilities he’d forgotten in the world. Things he’s
never truly been able to hold.
This
story is every bit as full on as Dance with the Devil and though not as
scarring for the ones involved, though they are there too.
Though
I don’t remember crying as much as I did with that one the first time I read
this. but it defiantly makes your heart melt and you can’t help but fall for
both characters and the compassion that ties them together.
I
would like to go on and on about the book, honestly I would but I’m not reading
these for the first time and I’m a little afraid that I will give shit away for
books to come. I’m afraid that I know too much information and I can’t read
this book without remembering it.
But
it’s a great beginning and a sad end that has anger—misplaced or rightly so—,
guilt and love that will carry on for all of forever.
Though
there’s a sweet chill to the tone it’s very much a fast pace story of a proper
man falling in love with a scrabber (though she’s not really that, at all. just
compared to him).
And
one again, if you haven’t picked up one of these books you should. Just check
it out, and if you don’t fall in love, then at least you’ll know. but I can’t
see that happening, not if paranormal romance with a great action cast and
power that’s linked threw the lines but not used as an instant fix (99% of the
time), then you can’t really go wrong. Kenyon is a great writer and though her
character take paragraph to paragraph turns threw the story, you never get lost
or have to double read to see who was actually talking, each individual threw
the books have their own tone that’s translated without you having to think it
threw.
And
that’s truly something few people can manage.
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, 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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