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Fantasy Lover
Series: Dark-Hunter, 0
Pub: 2002, Piatkus
(imprint of Little, brown Book Group)
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Cat: paranormal
romance
Format: paperback (small);
307 pp w/ 19 chapters
Whose: Julian &
Grace
Age
Range:
adult
Synopsis
It might sound like
a man’s favourite fantasy – to live forever, destined to be the lover of
thousands of woman. But for Julian of Macedon, it’s a nightmare. Once he was a
proud Spartan general; now he’s a love-slave, his essence magically held
captive in a book, cursed to spend all eternity pleasing women. Then, one day,
Grace Alexander summons Julian to fulfil her passionate dreams – and sees
beyond the fantasy to the man himself.
Long years as a sex
therapist, listening to other people’s bedroom problems, have taken a lot of
the fun out of the physical side of love for Grace. But with or without sex,
the rules of the enchantment cannot be changed – Julian is hers for the month.
And, as their time tighter slips by, Julian and Grace find more to share than
sympathy and conversation and they begin to wonder if love might be within
their grasp. That leaves only one question. Is love enough to break a
2,000-year-old curse?
Thoughts
This first book in
the series is written like your normal first up romance, (really, I know this,
I’ve looked it up). it’s may be an old ruling, but it’s set the way ones meant
to be, high in tension and no real release until the end of the book.
That’s what happened
here.... we meet Grace, a sex psychologist who is a being embarrassed about
having a talk about her sex life—or lake there of—in a public place with her
best friend, who has a habit of doing this to her.
This is one of the
things that really gets me about the book, should it worry her so much? When
she sits in a office listening to odd and detailed encounters of others sex
life? When she’s meant to help them threw their sexual depravities, and obsessions?
Number two, and this
one is more in lines with that whole ‘virgin’ thing people tend to like there
heroine to be (for some reason, I don’t get), Grace has only had sex once, and
it didn’t turn out well at all.
But enough about her,
let’s move on.
Her like 30th
birthday rolls around and her besty has given her a book that contains a sex
slave, all she has to do is say his name in moon light and puff, he’s hers for
a months, to give her all the pleasure she could ever desire (there are
buts...but they don’t actually come up all that much, which is odd, isn’t it? I
think so, especially towards the end, and yet, it’s totally understandable).
So we have a ‘virgin’
totally sexually deprived female who wants love she doesn’t think she’s ever
going to get (more so she won’t let herself trust enough to get it, but that’s
physco babble that she really should know about herself, being that she would
have gone over this a little in her years of schooling to become what she
is....yeah, sorta tell, it’s the job description that’s getting at me)
Next comes hotter
than life demi god (which I love actually, at least there’s a solid reason
behind his seductive good looks that makes people just drool over him)
Get them together,
along with his need to fuck her—it’s the curse—and her need to not, I guess, be
hurt by a man she’d falling in love with, even when she tells herself not to.
Again, it’s the
perfect set up to your everyday romance.
Add, awesome side
characters, all gods, or woman who are a little nuts, in all the fun ways.
A God who wants
revenge for...actually, wait, it’s a little messed up but I think I should
leave this one out, you read, get the ideas for yourself.
There tears and
heartache, and beauty wrapped around love, lust and forever.
Oh, oh, and babies—another
of those, must for romances, woman are suckers for babies....
I know that it seems
as if I’m bitching, or...looking down at this book, I’m not, fuck I loved it,
and after reading it, all I wanted was more, it’s just that once I read up on
what should be writing in writing a good romance, that’s all I can see whenever
I read, or think about this book.
But it’s the writing
style, that mix of paragraph to paragraph of each character that’s never
confusing. And you have something that makes you want to forget it as soon as
it’s finished just so you can read it all over again without knowing the
ending, that’s who good the book is.
Really.....
One step into the Dark-Hunter world and you’ll never
turn back....
....ever!
Series
[tb], 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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