review (kiss of a demon king)

 (read: 12/Nov/11)

      Kiss of a Demon King

A scorching tale of a ruthless demon king twisted with dark ambition and torn by a love he cannot deny

 

    Prod dets

Immortal After Dark series, book 6

Pub: 2009, Simon & Schuster

Author: Kresley Cole

Cat: Paranormal Romance

Format: paperback (mid); 417 pp w/ 50 chapters

Whose: Rydstorm & Sabine

Age Range: Adult

                Synopsis

For centuries Rydstrom, fallen king of the Rage Demons, has fought to seize his crown, never relenting, until he is tricked into the lair of a exquisite enchantress. If she can tempt him to her bed, everything he’s worked for will be lost.

     

Sabine, the Sorceress of Illusions, has long accepted her fate: to seduce a demon king. But once she kisses the brutal warrior, she releases seducing him will be far from the punishment she’s feared.

     

Yet just when they begin to fall for each other, one will be forced to make the ultimate sacrifice. Will Sabine give up the only life she knows to save her demon lover? Or will the proud king lay down his crown and arms to keep his sorceress...?

[Should read someone else review on this one ‘cause mine isn’t all that great]

      my Thoughts (review)

First thought: (round page 170) she just went back to being what she was—weird, like there wasn’t any growth at all, even though she was getting there. It was bad, even if it’s not seeming to be so, but it’s like the book, or more so her, just started up again.

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So, this is the book that got him his kingdom back—oh, sorry that might have been a bit of a spoiler but really, that’s what this book is about and so much more...

More so, it’s about a prophecy about a sorceress and a demon, which isn’t all that great news, even more so for the fact that she’s a bit touchy when it comes to things like emotions towards others and you know, telling the truth, not stealing—basically what all the female characters are like.

And I’m going to stop here. Mostly because I haven’t gotten to a point where ‘this book was great’ honestly it’s not in my vocab when thinking on it, but then I think it’s because I never cared all that much for either character in previous books, and more so for them within the first few minutes. The only time I truly enjoyed it, or felt any real emotion was near the end and that was when it was about him and his brother.

Still, it wasn’t bad, a nice look at a different sort of world and all that still for some reason it came from the fact that there was more annoying shit in this book than anything else and so nothing was overlaid. Nothing that made the bad seemed less, well, bad.

You want to know what they were? (probly not—but I’m going to tell you anyway) one it’s the thing about the height (but I have this one threw the series it’s just that this one annoyed me and because of that I felt as if that was more pushed into my head more than anything else—but seriously it’s annoying.

Second and this is one for this book only, and something that I spoke about above. She was doing well, and then out of nowhere she just...well, went back to being what she was at the beginning, it was almost like the story started all over again. It was annoying, because she’s not the most pleasant of female characters I’ve ever read about.

And third, which isn’t anything that bad, but something I hate the most in books, come on its nearly as bad as them name dropping or putting real people in as characters (this I find always happens to me when I read historical crap). Anyway, this isn’t the point. She dropped the Lords of the Underworld in her book, and yeah I know that both authors are friends or some shit, but please.... was it really needed.

So I’m sorry that this has become something more unpleasant than I thought it would be, and really I should delete it all and play nice, but I can’t, with anything, it’s a only type crap with me and this book wasn’t all that great, it was writing with the greatness of Cole but the story and more so the characters just rubbed me the wrong way for no real reason I can see.

    Series

A hunger like no other, no rest for the wicked, wicked deeds on a winter’s night, dark needs at night’s edge, dark desire after dark, [this book], pleasure of a dark prince, demon from the dark, dreams of a dark warrior, Lothaire,

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