Rating: 
Summary: Actually 3.5 stars
Review: I'm a huge fan of Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series and enjoyed this book a lot. Talon is a sexy supporting character introduced in "Night Pleasures" and is fleshed out in this story as a likable, flawed hero with a great sense of humor. The problem with this book was the heroine, Sunshine, a dopey flake with a propensity for lots o' sex. I get the impression that Ms. Kenyon was so busy introducing secondary characters being set up for their own books that character development of Sunshine got left in the dust. (BTW, the secondaries in this book rocked - Zarek's story in "Dance with the Devil" is hot, hot, HOT.) I didn't really ever get the sense that Sunshine actually loved Talon until she said it - the rest of the time she was just paranoid about Nynia and focused on getting in Talon's pants (not that I can blame her). Still, the book is fun, and is a great transition into "Dance with the Devil," a five-star book up there with "Fantasy Lover" and "Night Pleasures." Enjoy!
Rating: 
Summary: mythologically flawed
Review: I was referred to Kenyon because of my love for Laurell K. Hamilton. I was VERY disappointed. I understand that this is fiction, but I feel that if you are going to write about something, you should at least have a vague knowledge of what you are writing. Her portrayal of Artemis as a horny goddess who basically just wants to screw Acheron is disgustingly wrong. If she had researched at all, she would have chosen a different goddess, considering that Artemis is the VIRGIN goddess of the hunt who kills any man who sees her naked.I'll admit the plot was somewhat decent, however the dialogue was often cheesy and badly written. Due to her inability to portray mythological figures as they are and her bad dialogue, I felt the need to give this a low rating. I'll stick with LKH, thank you very much.
Rating: 
Summary: Disappointing after the first two
Review: Having loved Fantasy Lover and Night Pleasures, I was very keen to read Kenyon's third book in this series. I came to it with high hopes... but was disappointed. The Dark-Hunters are the same: they're still great characters and I love Acheron just as much here as in Night Pleasures. Talon... didn't do it for me. Nor did Sunshine, as it happens. She was just too flaky for my liking. What made the book worth finishing were the sub-plots: mainly Acheron, including his relationship with Artemis and Styxx, but also Zarek and Valerian. Now those stories I will read! But Talon. He's cursed that any woman he falls in love with will die, so he has indulged in one-night stands for fifteen hundred years. And he doesn't even seem to put up a fight with Sunshine? Fifteen hundred years of controlling his feelings, and he goes completely out of control after one night? He tells her that he loves her while still telling himself and everyone else that he doesn't? That just doesn't convince me. What really made me dislike Talon and Sunshine's story, though, was the reincarnation plot. Sure, I know I'm reading a fantasy/supernatural novel, but I have my threshold, and reincarnation goes way, way beyond it. As soon as I realised that was where Kenyon was going, she lost me in terms of her lead characters. A further niggle related to her use of ancient language. Talon's a Celt, true. His sister Ceara (should be Ciara?) speaks to him in what is clearly Gaelic - okay, the languages are related, so that's not too much of a problem. But Kenyon gets the fadas (accents) backwards, and the use of the language is stilted. Ceara wouldn't call Talon 'my bráthair'! She'd call him simply 'bráthair' or 'mo bráthair' - it just doesn't make sense to use Gaelic for half of the phrase. Anyway, one so-so story out of the way; Zarek's is next, and since I found him much more interesting than Talon, that one should be better. wmr-uk
Rating: 
Summary: I have to admit
Review: I have to admit, the story was nice and smooth. YOu know, its about talon, a dark-hunter, and i think her name is sunshine.. then thay have a quick fling....many flings... then talon leaves but she doesnt even bother asking for his number or anything. Talon is obviously hurt that she doesnt think about him when the next few days, hes dying to see her again..ok ya just read it ok?
Rating: 
Summary: Repetitious and yet.....
Review: something about it is compelling. For me, however, it's not the main characters. I thought this romance was okay. There's not a lot to distinguish it from her other books in this world, even though it adds some to that world. Things that bugged me:
Just how many well-over-six-feet, gorgeous, buff, primarily blond men can there be in one city?
All the bad guys are gorgeous, too? And the gods?
Kenyon seems to confuse sex with romance. Where are the other components of a good relationship? Kenyon rarely allows them to surface; sex is preeminent. Romance in this book comes down to Pez.
How convenient that the "savior" is who it is and shows up when he/she does. Good things:
Acheron -- I'm dying for a book for him
Zarek -- Do read this one before his book, Dance with the Devil. There's so much insight into his character here and preparation for his story.
Kenyon can definitely write heroes full of angst and pain
Sunshine is a decent heroine
the Pez collection Unfortunately, the lead couple was only so-so for me. I wasn't really into the book until Acheron and Zarek grabbed me. The last two chapters before the epilogue and some earlier parts with these two are worth reading the book. They hint at the deeper things Kenyon is capable of writing. Too bad this book gets there only with secondary characters.
Rating:
Summary: So much promise and yet....
Review: Slogging painfully through trite dialogue and a convoluted story line with only brief bursts of interest is how I would describe reading Night Embrace. This was a book that had all the ingredients it needed to be a winner and yet somehow missed the mark. It has your unconventional heroine, your dark hero and the makings of a really good story. Sadly the characters are rather flat, repetitive and inconsistent. They are surrounded by a host of secondary characters that do not enrich the plot in any way. They are totally unnecessary but sadly most them are more interesting than the main characters. The ending is just too tidy to be believed. I spent the entire book wishing I could read the other characters stories and wondering when this one would fulfill the promise that it had showed earlier. This book should have been 200 pages shorter, all the rest is filler. If you have nothing to do and you have read all the other books in your collection, go for this one. However if you want to read a really good book, with great characters, good dialogue, steamy love scenes and a slamming story line, pick up any one of the books in Christine Feehan's Carpathian Dark series. Now those are books that you will read over and over again!
Rating:
Summary: Leather and Harleys rocking your romance!!
Review: Sherrilyn Kenyon is repeatedly demonstrating her wonderful talents to the delight of fans and new readers alike. The humorous tones meshed with emotion and action is nothing less than wonderful in the Dark Hunter series. I started this book in much the same way I use to take on a program of Buffy. It wasn't my first preference, but I was entertained enough to get through it. However, this book grabbed me and pulled me into the story. It contains a sufficient mixture of vampires and werewolves showing up at just the right moments to keep the story interesting the tale moving. Grant it, the image of Harley riding heroes that have women coming on to them in groves was a bit much, but acceptable. All in all, if you are a paranormal romance fan, you may find this book a tad farfetched, but it will still entertain you.
Rating:
Summary: Great Series and Great Author
Review: Sherrilyn Kenyon's book have great attitude with spicy dialogue and kickin' heroes/heroines. I'm always searching for the next one which is quite a compliment since I've sworn off more authors than I can count. Christine Feehan would do well to try to imitate the quality of Kenyon's books and put some starch in her heroine's backbones. Kenyon's heroines are non-cookie-cutter women, not perfect-- but darned good-- and her heroes are lucky to come across them. Brava for Kenyon and write faster!!
Rating:
Summary: Leather, leather, and more leather...
Review: What's up with all the black leather and guys with an allergy to wearing underwear? ;-) I continue reading these Dark Hunter books, all the while wondering what it is I like, when there are so many things about them that annoy me no end. The heroines are interesting, the heroes are strong yet sweet, the villains are scary enough... I guess I'm disappointed at the glorification of physical perfection -- why does every guy have to be excessively tall and even more excessively handsome? Okay, so it's a romance novel, and one reason we read them, supposedly, is an 'escape' from normal life. Maybe what's bugging me is that I have a feeling that Sherrilyn Kenyon is capable of writing something deeper -- with the same cast of characters, more or less -- and just isn't, for some reason. I did like that the heroine didn't want to be as passive as she was in a previous life. The author did a good job of proving to us that Talon loves her for who she is now, and I appreciated that. Another problem I have with this novel is the hero's name. I didn't buy it for a long time just because the name 'Talon' really bugged me. I'm a long-time Dungeons and Dragons player, and amongst serious RPG'ers, characters with names like 'Talon' and 'Blade' and so forth are widely -- and usually with good reason -- ridiculed.
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Summary: This book ruined me for anything but Dark-Hunter novels
Review: When I began reading this book, I thought I was going to hate it. In places it reads like bad fan fiction from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and there is even a serious reference to something called the "Dark-Hunter handbook." Still, I managed to get so wrapped up in this story that by the end I wasn't even offended by the fact that all of New Orleans seemed to be populated by gods, vampires, werewolves, and even were-bears. With so many glaring deficiencies, maybe I should have given the book less stars, but I was really impressed by the fact that when I finished it, I didn't want to read anything but another Dark-Hunter novel. This is the kind of book that requires a lot of suspension of disbelief; it's an unapologetic fantasy about gorgeous supernatural heroes with the faces and leather-clad bodies of gods (literally). They ride Harleys, they wear black, they have tatoos and the occasional piercing, they wear sunglasses at night, and they are irresistable to women everywhere. And somehow, the author's vision was so brazen that I gave up getting annoyed and just let it suck me in. Now I don't want to read anything else. I hope she writes fast. I think what allows this book to get away with so much silliness and still be convincing is the excellent characterization. Talon, the hero here (a secondary character from Night Pleasures) is just as well-drawn and convincing as Julian was in Fantasy Lover. He is the same kind of tormented, lonely man. Sunshine, an absent-minded artist, is his soulmate and the one woman who can change him and save him from eternal loneliness. It should be corny, but somehow it wasn't. A nice extra touch in this book was the inclusion of the stories of Dark-Hunters Acheron and Zarek, which kept the interest up even after Talon and Sunshine's story had reached its highpoint. You don't have to be a fan of paranormal romance to like this book. The love story is real enough that even the constant popping in and out of gods and werewolves isn't enough to make it completely unbelievable.
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