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Summary: It all started with this book...
Review: ...And now I read almost everything by Sherrilyn Kenyon. She's an amazing writter and I love this book. I love romances, but time travel and stories of this nature usually don't intrest me, but I'm addicted. I've read and reread this so many times, and yet I've yet to get tired of it. From this story, she goes into her Dark-Hunter series which I'm currently reading. I love her style and her humor, which is so important to me. Well written, entertaining, I can't put her books down.
A must read!
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Summary: Good Book
Review: Julian and Grace are wonderful characters and the way cupid appears in the books is really funny. I am enjoy the Dark Hunter series which is a spin off. I really haven't read to many Greek Gods and Vampire romances but Sherrilyn captured my attention. I love her as Kinley MacGregor too.
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Summary: Sweet, humorous, and very sexy...
Review: In Fantasy Lover, Kenyon begins to build a fascinating world in which the Greek gods and heroes, etc. still live and interact with humans. Her characterizations of them and their receptivity to the modern world are quite interesting.Kenyon's elevation of sex over romance makes sense in this book since the hero is a love slave. The heroine's ability to see the man behind the body provides a window into his tormented soul. Still, Grace as a frigid sex therapist is an odd sort of twist. In any event, the book is definitely worth the read, even if some events scream their arrival chapters ahead of time. If you're looking for something steamy with a dose of pathos and a dollop of humor, try this one by Kenyon.
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Summary: Go ahead - suspend your disbelief
Review: I'll skip the synopsis and get straight to the point - this book is super-fun! Julian, though caught in a tragic situation, is a humorous hottie, Grace is a buttoned-down sex therapist with steel-cable nerves and a droll sense of humor, and the secondary characters (some set-ups for her following books) are a blast. My only quibble with the book are the dopey lines the women use in place of cursing ("holy green guacamole" - ugh!) - somehow, if a gorgeous demigod jumped naked out of a book at me, a "holy (cow)!" would probably burst forth! :-D Anyway, this book is a funny, tragicomic read, with snappy dialog and really sympathetic characters. It also functions as a prequel to Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series (I'd read this one first, if you haven't read any of the Dark-Hunters yet). I bet you'll enjoy it!
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Summary: Wonderful Story
Review: Okay I admit I am a Sherrilyn Kenyon fanatic. Once I discovered her "Dark Hunter" series I lost it! This is actually the first book before the Dark Hunter Series. It's a very beautiful and oh so sexy contemporary love story. Grace Alexander is not what you would call sexy by a long shot. She's a little chunky, and knows she is no beauty. Her best friend Selena gives Grace a book for her birthday. Selena informs Grace that this book contains a "love slave" who will become her every fantasy for a month if she calls him from the book. As a joke Grace calls forth the love slave, and meets Julian of Macedon.
Julian is a warrior who has been trapped as a love slave in a book for over 2,000 years by a bitter enemy. Grace sees past Julian's perfect body, and sees a person in torment. She is determined to help him solve the curse and find a way out of the book. She just hopes she can keep her heart as she spends each day with him. This is a great story. I would highly recommend!
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Summary: Like a chocolate souffle
Review: This book was sweet, light and insubstansial. The story was fluff but fun. I prefer the depths and pathos of Christine Feehan but this story with its sly dialogue and zippy narrative felt as if Joss Whedon had written on a lark.
A Macedonian Demi-god gets stuck in a book, only escaping for the period of a full when called by a woman.
One tiny quibble - macedonia is in Turkey - the cause of a very nasty war and intellectual skirmish between Turkey and Greece. But then Turkish demi-God just doesn't sound as good.
The characterizations of the Gods themselves reeked of xena's influence. I can almost see the late Kevin Smith as the rarely mentioned and never seen Ares.
Worth the time to read, but not something sticks to your ribs and soul.
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Summary: Holy Green Guacamole
Review: 'Fantasy Lover' is a funny romance, if a bit corny with the little lines that Kenyon uses in place of cussing. Grace Alexander, a twenty-nine-year-old sex therapist, is cajoled into performing a tiny ritual on her birthday to summon a love-slave from a very old Greek book. Surprisingly, it actually works. In fact, I'm sure that little Gracie was VERY surprised, seeing as how she busted out screeming when the love-slave, a.k.a. Julian, popped up naked in her living room. Later asking her for pizza, of all things. As it turns out, Grace has nerves of steel and is able to resist the temptation of this incredibly sexual man--sometimes. She gets to know Julian, and among some other really horrible things about his life, she finds out that Julian is the bastard son of Aphrodite, and that his brother cast him into the book over two thousand years ago. ...He has a very disfunctional family. Anyway, to continue, if Julian can't hold off the urge to have sex with Grace until the very last night for some twelve hours (I believe it is) then he'll be sucked back into the book and Grace will have lost the love of her life. -Embyr Bradson (10/19/03)
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Summary: A FABULOUS MUST READ
Review: I PASSED THIS BOOK IN THE STORE I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES,BUT ONE DAY SOMETHING MADE ME PICK IT UP.
AND FROM THAT DAY I WAS HOOKED ON THE BOOK AND WANTED TO READ MORE,I WAS SORRY TO SEE THE STORY END.
MISS KENYON BROUGHT A HOST OF EMOTIONS TO THE STORY. I CRIED CAN YOU BELIEVE IT.
I BROUGHT INTO ANOTHER WORLD OF MYTHS AND MONSTERS AND I LOVED IT.
THE HERO IN THE STORY WAS A TROUBLED SOUL AND ALL YOU WANTED TO DO WAS HELP HIM,I LOVED HIS HEROINE BUT I WOULD HAVE JUMPED HIS BONES THE FIRST TIME I SAW HIM.
IF YOU BUY THIS BOOK YOU WONT BE DISSAPOINTED.
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Summary: Sexy and emotionally satisfying
Review: Demigod Julian of Macedon has been cursed, tormented in a halfway life that makes him a love slave for one woman after another, each for a month. When her friend talks her into summoning a lover, Grace Alexander finally goes along--but the last thing she needs is a man who will love her and abandon her--as did the man who took her virginity years before. Things would be simple if only she didn't find Julian so attractive--and so noble. Julian can't understand a woman who feeds him, talks to him, lets him out of her bedroom, and won't even have sex with him. But not having sex is simply not an option. As the month they have together goes by, he'll grow more and more insane. But his brother Eros/Cupid tells him that the curse can only be broken if he waits--and he cannot wait. Even if she can free him from his curse, Grace knows that she can never have Julian for her own. However things turn out for him, for her, the only possible outcome is loss and loneliness. Author Sherrilyn Kenyon writes a sexy and compelling paranormal story. Julian is an attractive tortured hero (although a bit anachronistic as a pre-Christian whose favorite curse is a corruption of Jesus). Cupid's appearance as a biker is charming. FANTASY LOVER takes the fantasy of a male love slave and gives it an emotional depth. It's a great read.
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Summary: Cover promises what Book delivers
Review: It is a fabulous fantasy that Ms. Kenyon brings to life literally within the pages of her book, Fantasy Lover. She puts a new twist to those old Greek gods and how they enteract with us humans. A work-a-holic, no-success-with-relationships, woman bows to her somewhat loony psychic friend's pressure when presented with a very erotically sexy picture in an ancient book. Is the old text for real? No. No way could HE be real flesh and blood, even if she did call out his name three times at midnight on a full moon while holding to the book to her heart! But that's exactly what happens. And, for the next four weeks, the odd couple is nearly inseparable... as he can't help but tempt her beyond endurance while she tries to hold him (and his hormones) at bay in an effort to rescue him from a curse and capture true love forever! John De Salvo on the cover is superb, even if the picture is small. (A larger copy is on Ms. Kenyon's Web site!) But, the fantasy that Ms. Kenyon weaves is the dessert.
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