Sorry that I haven't blogged in a month, I have been super busy
but I haven't forgot about anyone who reads my blog! I will do a
reminder though about how I do my 'reviews'. Since Styxx is
recently released and people will be looking for reviews on this
book, I will say that I am a different kind of book reviewer. I give
a summary, then I go into what I liked and disliked about the book. I
do put spoiler alerts around things that I consider a spoiler.
Then I do my usual ending to a review. So I hope you enjoy the review
and thank you for reading! This is the twenty-third book in the
Dark-Hunter series, depending on what books you count apart of
the series and what ones you don't.
We read all about Acheron, now it is time for us to know Styxx's
story. Things are not what they seem especially when someone is in a
biased state. People can hide things, people can change. Just like
Styxx, Bethany needs to right some wrongs. But Styxx in the end has
to choose between the woman that he loves and his brother. Things
never dull down for anyone in this book, and just when it seems
things do calm down, it is just the opposite.
Styxx has been a long awaited book for anyone who loves the
Dark-Hunter series. Some want to know if he really is as bad
as everyone has made him out to be. All I can say is that part of me
know that Kenyon wouldn't make him that bad, but another part of me
was wondering if she would make Styxx that way. I am glad though that
Kenyon did make Styxx good. I loved that we were able to see just how
much Styxx didn't have it easy. Basically the whole book is placed
back before present time. I loved that we are shown Styxx's softer
side and how he can, unlike what other people in the series, show his
feelings and feel something. I love how when I was reading Styxx
I couldn't put down the book, over 800 pages, and I just couldn't
stop till I finished. Another thing I like is that with this book
being so big I would be able to read it over and over and find
something new every time that I read it. I also love how so
many people in the book grow. There are so many secrets that are
hinted toward and spilled I will not do any spoilers for that!
I refuse to do any spoilers for the secrets. I am happy that this
book wasn't like Kenyon's other books, in the run-of-the-mill
category for me.
To keep on the secrets deal one big secret is hinted toward but
not given up and it drove me up the wall. Another thing that I didn't
like was that the book was set mainly in the past and once the speed
up came along everything that needed to happen almost happened in a
rush at the end. I do understand that Kenyon wanted to show more
about Styxx in the past, but I wanted to know what happened more in
the skipping ahead of dates (chapters for the
book).*SEMI-SPOILER-ALERT* The main thing that I did not like (but
completely know that it was necessary) was the brutality in which
Styxx suffered. It was horrible and had me cringing and just glad
that Kenyon didn't go into great detail when it happened.
*SEMI-SPOILER-ALERT-ENDED* Other then those three things I didn't
really have anything other to not be happy about with the book.
After reading this monster of a book (and I mean that in a good
way) I really felt that emptiness that hardcore readers get when they
finish a book. I laughed, I cringed, and at some points I just wanted
to put the book down because of the brutality. Though in the end I
was very happy with the book and I would not hesitate to reread it. I
do own this book, I got it from Premier Collectables. I do recommend
this book to whomever can handle a book that is not all cute bunnies
and puppies. Kenyon is one of my favorite authors, and I can't wait
to read more from her.
Rating: 5 out of 5.
Page Count: 836 pages (hardcover)
Price: I paid $41.03 for hardcover, leather bound signed, and
shipped on the ground from Premier Collectables.
Thanks for reading!
~Jade
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Friday, March 7, 2014
Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon
This is the twenty-second book in the Dark-Hunter series,
depending on how you look at it and what books you count to be in
what series. I know I jumped from the nineteenth book to this one,
that is because I have already read those books, before I started
this blog. I have read basically all of Kenyon's books.
Kateri doesn't believe in anything supernatural. She has been haunted with all sorts of dreams and images, and of a man that she doesn't even know. But sometimes, you have to see to believe. Ren is trying to keep a prophecy from coming true. Along the way he has to fight an evil to keep from possessing him. Not that easy when he has to keep Kateri alive to help with the prophecy, and wonder if she will end up killing him in the end as well.
Time Untime for me was more on the sweet side, for me. Other Kenyon books are more on the action side with splashes of cute, sweetness throughout the book. Ren was a character that needed that extra kindness and sweetness because of his horrible past. *SPOILER-ALERT* I was expecting Grizzly's hold on Ren at the end to go a little farther, and that Kateri would have had to of come up with some strategic way to get Ren out of Grizzly's hold.*SPOILER-ENDED* It didn't happen that way and it would have made it more of the same. So I am happy that that didn't happen. If I were to compare this book to Zarek's book (Dance With The Devil) I would have to say that it is almost the same. Zarek and Ren both have a slightly worse background, Astrid and Kateri have to show them that not everyone is out to harm them. But everything else is different, which I am glad. Overall my favorite character is Ren, I found him adorable and I have not a clue why. I couldn't put this book down, I had to keep reading it, I had to know what was coming up next and what was going to happen, so that is a plus.
Even with one thing not happening, that I mention in the spoiler, this book was a little predictable. But not as much as I thought it was going to be. That could be just me though, and someone else picks up Time Untime and they think it is completely predictable. There are parts that are predictable, and there are parts that I thought one thing was going to happen and it didn't. Besides being slightly predictable, I didn't have any problem with reading Time Untime.
Just like last time, I recommend this series and Kenyon as a author as a whole, to a slightly more mature audience. Just because of the sex dialog that pops up. I own this book, it is a resident on one of my two bookshelves. I only had one thing that I didn't really like, and it wasn't even that big of a problem. Ren and Kateri reminded me of Zarek and Astrid, which I found cool. This is a shorter conclusion, because I would just be repeating everything from the last book I did a review on for Kenyon.
Rating: 5 out of 5.
Page Count: 374 pages (paperback)
Price: $7.99 (I got it for $5.99 at Wal-Mart)
Thanks for reading!
~Jade
*Just something I remembered. I don't normally find spelling mistakes in books, but this one caught my eye. It is the last page of chapter ten. It is the word "sauce" in the book it is spelled "sance". I love spelling mistakes, not to rip on the author or the publishers, or anyone (because sometime I, myself have a horrendous time of spelling). I think they make books pretty cool, even if it is in every single book, I love them. Now if it is a pretty bad mistake, that's when I will be a little like "what no one noticed this". That has yet to happen to me. Back to this spelling error, I caught it, giggled, pointed it out to my mom, and went on. It was that quick, and that cool. :D
Kateri doesn't believe in anything supernatural. She has been haunted with all sorts of dreams and images, and of a man that she doesn't even know. But sometimes, you have to see to believe. Ren is trying to keep a prophecy from coming true. Along the way he has to fight an evil to keep from possessing him. Not that easy when he has to keep Kateri alive to help with the prophecy, and wonder if she will end up killing him in the end as well.
Time Untime for me was more on the sweet side, for me. Other Kenyon books are more on the action side with splashes of cute, sweetness throughout the book. Ren was a character that needed that extra kindness and sweetness because of his horrible past. *SPOILER-ALERT* I was expecting Grizzly's hold on Ren at the end to go a little farther, and that Kateri would have had to of come up with some strategic way to get Ren out of Grizzly's hold.*SPOILER-ENDED* It didn't happen that way and it would have made it more of the same. So I am happy that that didn't happen. If I were to compare this book to Zarek's book (Dance With The Devil) I would have to say that it is almost the same. Zarek and Ren both have a slightly worse background, Astrid and Kateri have to show them that not everyone is out to harm them. But everything else is different, which I am glad. Overall my favorite character is Ren, I found him adorable and I have not a clue why. I couldn't put this book down, I had to keep reading it, I had to know what was coming up next and what was going to happen, so that is a plus.
Even with one thing not happening, that I mention in the spoiler, this book was a little predictable. But not as much as I thought it was going to be. That could be just me though, and someone else picks up Time Untime and they think it is completely predictable. There are parts that are predictable, and there are parts that I thought one thing was going to happen and it didn't. Besides being slightly predictable, I didn't have any problem with reading Time Untime.
Just like last time, I recommend this series and Kenyon as a author as a whole, to a slightly more mature audience. Just because of the sex dialog that pops up. I own this book, it is a resident on one of my two bookshelves. I only had one thing that I didn't really like, and it wasn't even that big of a problem. Ren and Kateri reminded me of Zarek and Astrid, which I found cool. This is a shorter conclusion, because I would just be repeating everything from the last book I did a review on for Kenyon.
Rating: 5 out of 5.
Page Count: 374 pages (paperback)
Price: $7.99 (I got it for $5.99 at Wal-Mart)
Thanks for reading!
~Jade
*Just something I remembered. I don't normally find spelling mistakes in books, but this one caught my eye. It is the last page of chapter ten. It is the word "sauce" in the book it is spelled "sance". I love spelling mistakes, not to rip on the author or the publishers, or anyone (because sometime I, myself have a horrendous time of spelling). I think they make books pretty cool, even if it is in every single book, I love them. Now if it is a pretty bad mistake, that's when I will be a little like "what no one noticed this". That has yet to happen to me. Back to this spelling error, I caught it, giggled, pointed it out to my mom, and went on. It was that quick, and that cool. :D
No Mercy by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Depending on how you look at it and what books you count to be in
what series and what you define as a series, this is the nineteenth
book in the Dark-Hunter series. I have done another review for
one of Kenyon's books. I plan on doing more, I know Styxx will
be one of them as well. I am a huge Kenyon fan but if you have read
my review for one of her books, I try as hard as I can not to be
biased. There are things that I find wrong, and that I do not like,
even with being a huge Kenyon fan. I will warn again that I will
probably drop spoilers if you have not read all the books previous to
this. If it is an actually spoiler about the book I do put the
warnings around it as usual.
Enemies have found a source of power that is new, that allows them to do things that they weren't able to do before. Dev Peltier thought he saw it all, being the bouncer for the door, now he knows better. Teamed up with Amazon Samia, they have to break some rules and hope the consequences won't come back to bite them too hard for it.
Samia (Sam) is my kind of woman, she is hard and not willing to back down. True to her Amazonian history, Sam know how to kick ass. I love all of special abilities that she is able to do since becoming a Dark-Hunter (DH). Dev is one of my favorite quadruplets, he is sarcastic and doesn't take anyone's crap. His love for his family runs deep, and Sam is his perfect counterpart, besides the fact that Sam is a DH and Dev is a shapeshifter. I loved how things went a little different in this book then in some of Kenyon's other books. They have to go on this semi-big adventure and that really kept the book interesting and kept me from thinking, for the most part, that this would be just like all of her other books. I just love Samia's character all around, she's very strong for everything that has happened to her, much like all the other DH's. *SPOILER-ALERT* Obviously Sam and Dev get mated together because of the Fate's being spiteful. Just like Fang and Aimee. Not so predictably Sam decides to stay a DH, but thanks to Savitar all four can have babies. And of course Dev is completely quite when it comes to Sam having psychometry.*SPOILER-ENDED* I love Savitar, in this book, the little appearance that he makes. He shows his more sensitive side and it really made me happy. Small things make me happy in books, this can go the other way too, though.
I did say how the adventure that Dev and Sam (with some friends) have to take keeps the book a little off the run of the mill track. But it doesn't keep it off of that track completely. There are very predictable parts in the book, I mentioned a couple in the spoiler but once some start reading the book they should be able to tell what the predictable parts are. Besides the whole adventure part, there really isn't a huge ending. The book pretty much ends calmly. Which isn't a bad thing, don't get me wrong, but after all the hype created around Sam and her psychometry, I was expecting just a little more. This doesn't mean that the ending was a complete failure, because it wasn't. I enjoyed the ending.
This is a series that I began in about ninth grade, and have continued to read now as I enter my second year in college. Though there are things that I am not too happy with with the books, I overall enjoy reading Kenyon's books. I recommend them to everyone looking for a larger series, but with this recommendation I have a warning, it's for a more mature audience. There are sex details, but nothing super crazy compared to some of the other things I have read. The only other thing is you have to read the books in order if you don't want to give anything away. That being said, I will continue to read Kenyon's books and I will reread them over and over again. I do own this book, and quite a number of her other books. I want to own all of Kenyon's books eventually.
Rating: 4.7 out of 5.
Page Count: 343 pages (hardcover)
Price: $24.99 (but I got it for around $5-6 at Wal-Mart)
Thanks for reading!
~Jade
Enemies have found a source of power that is new, that allows them to do things that they weren't able to do before. Dev Peltier thought he saw it all, being the bouncer for the door, now he knows better. Teamed up with Amazon Samia, they have to break some rules and hope the consequences won't come back to bite them too hard for it.
Samia (Sam) is my kind of woman, she is hard and not willing to back down. True to her Amazonian history, Sam know how to kick ass. I love all of special abilities that she is able to do since becoming a Dark-Hunter (DH). Dev is one of my favorite quadruplets, he is sarcastic and doesn't take anyone's crap. His love for his family runs deep, and Sam is his perfect counterpart, besides the fact that Sam is a DH and Dev is a shapeshifter. I loved how things went a little different in this book then in some of Kenyon's other books. They have to go on this semi-big adventure and that really kept the book interesting and kept me from thinking, for the most part, that this would be just like all of her other books. I just love Samia's character all around, she's very strong for everything that has happened to her, much like all the other DH's. *SPOILER-ALERT* Obviously Sam and Dev get mated together because of the Fate's being spiteful. Just like Fang and Aimee. Not so predictably Sam decides to stay a DH, but thanks to Savitar all four can have babies. And of course Dev is completely quite when it comes to Sam having psychometry.*SPOILER-ENDED* I love Savitar, in this book, the little appearance that he makes. He shows his more sensitive side and it really made me happy. Small things make me happy in books, this can go the other way too, though.
I did say how the adventure that Dev and Sam (with some friends) have to take keeps the book a little off the run of the mill track. But it doesn't keep it off of that track completely. There are very predictable parts in the book, I mentioned a couple in the spoiler but once some start reading the book they should be able to tell what the predictable parts are. Besides the whole adventure part, there really isn't a huge ending. The book pretty much ends calmly. Which isn't a bad thing, don't get me wrong, but after all the hype created around Sam and her psychometry, I was expecting just a little more. This doesn't mean that the ending was a complete failure, because it wasn't. I enjoyed the ending.
This is a series that I began in about ninth grade, and have continued to read now as I enter my second year in college. Though there are things that I am not too happy with with the books, I overall enjoy reading Kenyon's books. I recommend them to everyone looking for a larger series, but with this recommendation I have a warning, it's for a more mature audience. There are sex details, but nothing super crazy compared to some of the other things I have read. The only other thing is you have to read the books in order if you don't want to give anything away. That being said, I will continue to read Kenyon's books and I will reread them over and over again. I do own this book, and quite a number of her other books. I want to own all of Kenyon's books eventually.
Rating: 4.7 out of 5.
Page Count: 343 pages (hardcover)
Price: $24.99 (but I got it for around $5-6 at Wal-Mart)
Thanks for reading!
~Jade
Sins of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Large Print edition)
First off I am going to say that I am a big Kenyon fan, and if you
are not I am perfectly okay with that. Secondly if you are also a fan
of Kenyon and are just beginning the Dark-Hunter (DH) series,
you may want to think about reading this post. Sins of the
Night is the eighth book in the series if you go by the
reading order in the front of one of the other DH books.
In this DH book we get to meet Alexion and Danger. Alexion we have heard about off and on in a few other books. Kenyon suggests in the Author's Foreword that you go to the back of the book and read the short story The Beginning. This short story gives you a little insight as to how Alexion came to be with Acheron. In Sins of the Night Alexion is called in to judge some rebelling DH's, and along the way he gets to meet Danger.
What I didn't like about the book is that, this book follows the same exact flow as the rest of the books with just slight variations. DH meets soul mate, soul mate is either completely okay with what is going on-or is not okay with what is going on, DH saves soul mate, DH/soul mate gets heart broken watching the other one die-or something to that extent, the DH sometimes get his or her soul back, then the happily ever after. I do like for my books to have a happy ending, but how they get there is what I pulls me in. I do understand that when an author finds a style that works for them that they use it. I just want a little more difference from one book to another. Nonetheless I don't think I will get tired of reading Kenyon....well maybe not for a long time.
As usual I love Simi and all her antics in the book, but this time we got double the Simi deal because *SPOILER-ALERT* Xirena (Simi's long lost sister) shows up and is not very much older then Simi herself. *SPOILER-ENDED* I laughed a few times from the demon antics. Something that I thought was a little unusual was that you didn't really get to know a whole lot about Danger's past with her being a DH, but you did get to know the basics. I did like the ending of Sins of the Night though *SPOILER-ALERT* you kind of get to see Acheron getting his not-so-blood-related-family going and it is a nice thing to read, if you haven't already read Acheron's book. *SPOILER-ENDED*
In the end I did like Sins of the Night, but I did not like the same story plot with different characters. I would love to one day add this book to my growing Sherrilyn Kenyon collection. This was a quick read, with the help of it being a large print addition (it's the only copy that my library has). I do recommend this series and also The League series that Kenyon writes. I am not really sure what else to put in this review without giving everything away (which I try not to do), so if you have questions ask away.
Rating: 3.8 of 5.
Page Count: 390 pages (large print)
Price: ???
Thanks for reading!
~Jade
In this DH book we get to meet Alexion and Danger. Alexion we have heard about off and on in a few other books. Kenyon suggests in the Author's Foreword that you go to the back of the book and read the short story The Beginning. This short story gives you a little insight as to how Alexion came to be with Acheron. In Sins of the Night Alexion is called in to judge some rebelling DH's, and along the way he gets to meet Danger.
What I didn't like about the book is that, this book follows the same exact flow as the rest of the books with just slight variations. DH meets soul mate, soul mate is either completely okay with what is going on-or is not okay with what is going on, DH saves soul mate, DH/soul mate gets heart broken watching the other one die-or something to that extent, the DH sometimes get his or her soul back, then the happily ever after. I do like for my books to have a happy ending, but how they get there is what I pulls me in. I do understand that when an author finds a style that works for them that they use it. I just want a little more difference from one book to another. Nonetheless I don't think I will get tired of reading Kenyon....well maybe not for a long time.
As usual I love Simi and all her antics in the book, but this time we got double the Simi deal because *SPOILER-ALERT* Xirena (Simi's long lost sister) shows up and is not very much older then Simi herself. *SPOILER-ENDED* I laughed a few times from the demon antics. Something that I thought was a little unusual was that you didn't really get to know a whole lot about Danger's past with her being a DH, but you did get to know the basics. I did like the ending of Sins of the Night though *SPOILER-ALERT* you kind of get to see Acheron getting his not-so-blood-related-family going and it is a nice thing to read, if you haven't already read Acheron's book. *SPOILER-ENDED*
In the end I did like Sins of the Night, but I did not like the same story plot with different characters. I would love to one day add this book to my growing Sherrilyn Kenyon collection. This was a quick read, with the help of it being a large print addition (it's the only copy that my library has). I do recommend this series and also The League series that Kenyon writes. I am not really sure what else to put in this review without giving everything away (which I try not to do), so if you have questions ask away.
Rating: 3.8 of 5.
Page Count: 390 pages (large print)
Price: ???
Thanks for reading!
~Jade
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