The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, Bk 1)
Author:
Genres: Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Author:
Genres: Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Bookfanatic reviewed on
Helpful Score: 1
Read this in one night.
A very entertaining book and the start of a good paranormal romance series if that's your cup of tea. There aren't any vampires or shifters here. This book is about immortal warriors of the Greek gods. Each one has a personal demon to deal with. I mean that literally. As punishment for a prank gone wrong eons ago, each male is cursed with the spirit of a demon - Violence, Wrath, Disease, Death, Pain, and Promiscuity. Each male lives in uneasy harmony with his demon.
What I liked: The heroine isn't your usual too stupid to live, weepy woman who is instantly ready to jump into bed with the hero. In several situations, she reacts as a normal level-headed woman would do when confronted by such oddities. She's attractive, but not necessarily gorgeous as a model.
Showalter is able to tell the history of these immortals in a way that doesn't bog down the story. Far too often, the first book in a series spends a lot of time telling the back story. This book sets up nicely the next book to follow. I especially liked the heroine to come in the next books - Danika. She's very spunky and straightforward. I'm looking forward to reading her relationship with the immortal Reyes.
What could have been better: The romantic relationship takes a while to get going. It comes in after about a hundred pages. This book has some graphic love scenes, but it's not as graphic as some other books and it's pretty vanilla. Some people prefer not to have highly detailed love scenes so if you're not into that, you can just skip the book or just skip those sections. There aren't very many of those sections in the book which is a pity.
A very entertaining book and the start of a good paranormal romance series if that's your cup of tea. There aren't any vampires or shifters here. This book is about immortal warriors of the Greek gods. Each one has a personal demon to deal with. I mean that literally. As punishment for a prank gone wrong eons ago, each male is cursed with the spirit of a demon - Violence, Wrath, Disease, Death, Pain, and Promiscuity. Each male lives in uneasy harmony with his demon.
What I liked: The heroine isn't your usual too stupid to live, weepy woman who is instantly ready to jump into bed with the hero. In several situations, she reacts as a normal level-headed woman would do when confronted by such oddities. She's attractive, but not necessarily gorgeous as a model.
Showalter is able to tell the history of these immortals in a way that doesn't bog down the story. Far too often, the first book in a series spends a lot of time telling the back story. This book sets up nicely the next book to follow. I especially liked the heroine to come in the next books - Danika. She's very spunky and straightforward. I'm looking forward to reading her relationship with the immortal Reyes.
What could have been better: The romantic relationship takes a while to get going. It comes in after about a hundred pages. This book has some graphic love scenes, but it's not as graphic as some other books and it's pretty vanilla. Some people prefer not to have highly detailed love scenes so if you're not into that, you can just skip the book or just skip those sections. There aren't very many of those sections in the book which is a pity.
