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Kiss of the Night (Dark-Hunter, Book 5)
written by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Studio : St. Martin's Paperbacks
by St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release Date : 2004-04-06
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Released : 2004-04-19
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780312992415
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 90 reviews)
List Price : $7.99
Our Price : $3.98
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Product Description |
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Wulf is an ancient Viking warrior with a useful but extremely aggravating power-amnesia. No one who meets him in person can remember him 5 minutes later. It makes it easy to have one-night stands, but hard to have a meaningful relationship, and without true love he can never regain his soul. When he finally meets Cassandra, the one woman who can remember him, she turns out to be the princess of the cursed race he's sworn to hunt-and forbidden to him. The two of them must face ancient curses, prophecies, and the direct meddling of the Greek gods to find true happiness at last. |
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Impossible to put down |
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Once again, Sherilynn Kenyon grabs your interest from page 1 and holds on to it all the way to the final page and then you just want more! Each new Dark Hunter captures your heart and you know that you've made a friend for eternity. I'll re-read this many times. |
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Amusing Guilty Pleasure |
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Amusing Guilty Pleasure, a bit repetitive, previous one in the series held my attention (more well written than this one). Still, I would recommend this book. |
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Another Disappointment |
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At this point I am undecided about this whole series. Once I get over the poor writing style, the overused cliches and simpleton dialogue, I can usually get through her books. Usually her ideas are phenomenal, but the execution tends to be mediocre. It is so frustrating-think of what a good writer could do with these story lines! This book is no different. The idea is awesome-a Dark Hunter falls in love and impregnates a half Appollite who is destined to die. But once again, the execution of this idea sucks! And it doesn't even make sense half the time. For example, Wulf is squeamish about drinking Cassandra's blood and initially refuses. Even though it would save her life! And Cassandra accepts this. Come on, give me a break. Plus the "out" that Ash gives them in the end is way too convenient. I will try a couple more books in the series because I did like Night Pleasures and Dance with the Devil, but if they are anything like this I'm done. |
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Does not disappoint. |
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I enjoyed this book. Wulf is a DH and Cassandra is an Apollite. The Apollites were created by Apollo and also cursed by him to die on their 27th b-day. You get to learn more about the Apollites and why some choose to turn into Daimons (which are Apollites who refuse to die at 27). I think this book gives readers more understanding about the otherside and makes the whole series even better. The calvary is called out with Julian, Kryian, Talon and Zarek all making appearances in this book. We are introduced to a new character, Urian, who by the end of the book I was loving and so wishing he might get his own book. Otherwise, he will mostly likely be making more appearances in books proceeding this one. |
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Made me queesy rather than hot |
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I had read "Fantasy Lover" and "Night Pleasures" and loved both of them so much that I decided to try "Kiss of the Night" this time. While all of Kenyon's books are a bit absurd dealing with devastatingly handsome, yet troubled men who amazingly can't find anyone to love them except rather plain average women.... they were still hot smoldering romances with a fun plot thrown in for good measure. When I read the premise behind "kiss of the night" I thought that it would be a bit more of them same perhaps. Not so. Kenyon really got caught up in her world with this one and while I found some of the new information about Apollites and Daimons interesting, I also found the romance in the book suffering because of it. There were just too many lenghty gaps between Wulf and Cassandra's meetings that were filled with tedious information. I am also not into vampires per se. I enjoyed Buffy the Vampire Slayer but am not someone that finds bloodsucking erotic or sexy. I find it disgusting and was disappointed that there was so much of it in this book. While "Night Pleasures" had been about Daimons and Dark Hunters it never had descriptive scenes of bloodsucking. When the main characters finally resort to it in this book, I thought that I was going to be sick. Rather than a fun, humourous story filled with smartmouthed characters and moments that touch you. This book took itself way too seriously for my taste and quenched any heat or romance that I had received from previous books. This is not going to be a keeper for me. |
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