UGH!

Okay this book and possibly the series - is just meh. I can't decide if it's the characters, the accents, the narrator, or the entire story that just nudges me wrong. Somehow I always end up annoyed while listening to them. It took me a couple of days to finish this book because of any of those reasons mentioned above.

Night Embrace is the second installment of the Dark-Hunter series. I still think the way these guys become a dark hunter is interesting.. but that's pretty much it. The girls in this series just end up annoying me somehow. Also, her name was sunshine.. and that just irked me every time it was mentioned,

Other than her, there's Talon and he was just okay. I honestly didn't really care about their relationship of what would happen to them. I did like that she could possibly be his dead wife reincarnated.. but after a while, I kind of just gave up on them.

Overall, I wanted this over and once it was.. I rejoiced with some wine. No idea when I will dive into the next book.. but I'll be hoping that it's a lot better than the first two!

ODIO A ARTEMISA CON TODO MI CORAZÓN



A pesar de que Talon me gustó no me enamoró su personaje de hecho no sentí la química y el amor como con las anteriores parejas le faltó un poco más de romance a pesar de que se suponía que eran almas gemelas , además que le dieron muchas vueltas al asunto sobre el “problema” todo giraba en ello y se me hizo repetitivo pero todo se compensa con la acción por aquí si tuvimos mucha acción nuevos personajes que me parecen de lo más interesantes sin tomar en cuenta a Acheron, él se cocina aparte.

El de cómo se resolvieron las cosas no me dejó totalmente satisfecha ay no sé tal vez este libro no lo disfrute tanto como los anteriores, tal vez por el pequeñito slump de un día que pasé.

Pd: Siento que la historia de Zarek me partirá el corazón ya quiero leer su historia
Pd2: También quiero leer la de Vane otro personaje que me gustó mucho
Pd3: También quiero el de Valerius, creo que los personajes secundarios opacaron a los protagonistas

I've read Night pleasures by this author a long time ago and while I just gave it 3 stars I haven't really been able to stop thinking about it. I decided to pick this book up today and it was intensley entertaining and a fun romance. Surprised that I enjoyed it so much and I will have to see if I can find the other books or reread the other one I got

I wasn't crazy about this DH book like the other ones because, gasp, I think there is too much sex in this book. The sex scenes get to the point where you're skimming because you want to get back to the story. I realize that fundamentally, Sunshine and Talon are very sexual beings. No issue there. Some people are. But after a while I didn't really need to read more scenes with them being sexual. I just got old and distracting from the plot and Kenyon's phenomenal storytelling.

Talon's backstory was very interesting, and I wanted to read more about that than him and Sunshine shagging. He's half-pagan and half-Christian with a Celtic heritage. He lost his whole village, partly through some of his actions. His past is very tragic and sets the tone for his future. Now he's a Dark Hunter who kills Daemons and shags as many beautiful women as he can to while away his time. Okay. Some readers probably find that sexy. I really didn't. His backstory worked tremendously well, but I didn't love present aspects of Talon's character. As for Sunshine, I just didn't find her that interesting. She came off as kind of a sleazy, hippieish, biker groupie chick. I'm not saying that's bad, but she didn't really intrigue me. She was nice and sweet, but just not a heroine that I got involved with as a reader. But I do have to say, they were very much kindred souls, and I am very glad they found their happy ending together.

The best aspects of this book were the secondary characters and the intricate world that Sherrilyn Kenyon has created with her Dark Hunter books. I can never get enough of it. She's a marvelous writer, and does a great job at taking ancient history and the myths and building a modern storyline around this foundation. The standout character in this book for me is Zarek. He got my attention from the get-go. Probably because I really like the dark, conflicted, antiheroes. The guys who exist on the fringes because they have been rejected by society. I wanted to learn more about this bad boy who lives in the shadows and is more or less disliked by most of the Dark Hunters. As a matter of fact, I eagerly finished this book so I could move onto Zarek's story. All in all, not a bad book at all, but my least favorite in the Dark Hunter series.

La parte romántica no me ha convencido, pero tiene muchas tramas secundarias que hacen que la historia me guste mucho también así que aunque no le puedo dar 4.5/5 como a los otros se queda en 4/5

Este libro me ha parecido espectacular, aunque la historia de amor no me ha parecido lo mejor del libro, le pondría un tres a la historia de amor, me parecía que había más química con Ninia y era más romántica su historia que son Sunshine, además este libro es uno de los más eróticos de la autora con la escusa de que son almas gemelas desde que se conocen no paran de tener sexo y una cosa que me ha chocado muchísimo es que sabemos que los cazadores oscuros no transmiten enfermedades de trasmisión sexual, ni pueden dejar embarazada a nadie sin embargo la protagonista eso en principio no lo sabe y de lo tira mil veces desde que lo acaba de conocer si ningun tipo de precaución !!!eso no es creible!!! Quitando eso que me ha chocado mucho ya que me lleva a pensar que la protagonista es una irresponsable y además el tampoco le aclara nada lo cual no entiendo, por lo demás todo bien pero lo demás este libro es un despiporre aparecen muchos personajes secundarios nuevos te los presenta y la verdad a veces han tenido más protagonismo que los protagonistas pero me han intrigado mucho conocer a Zarek, Vane, Valerio que son los que más salen, conocer al gemelo malo de aqueron, más dioses nuevos de la mitología celta, este libro como suele ser habitual en Kenyon es Desternillante definitivamente me encanta esta autora se me hace súper ágil de leer combina a la perfección erotismo con humor y también drama y lo mezcla todo de una manera que no se te hace cuesta arriba pese a lo traumatizados que están los personajes, cómo ya se más o menos el orden de los libro y sé quién tiene historia propia tengo enormes ganas de leer el siguiente el de Zarek y el de Vane en el que aquí ya sale quien será su protagonista femenina( y Neus de sin libros no soy nada lo recomienda muchísimo como uno de sus maromos) (así que yo coincido mucho con ella y se que me va a gustar) y el final ha sido impresionante, pero me hubiera gustado un epílogo donde dijeran que van a ser padres no se me pareció muy escueto su epílogo pero bueno al final se le da mucha importancia a Zarek, Valerio y Stig que creo le quitan protagonismo a la pareja pero por mí bien nos dejan intrigados con sus historias y se me olvidaba aqueron también tiene mucho protagonismo de los secundarios el que más aunque su libro es el número 15 o por ahí así que falta mucho para conocer si historia en definitiva para mi un libro de 5 pero no por la pareja principal, si no por la cantidad de información nueva y los secundarios y lo bien que me lo he pasado leyéndolo. Super recomendable

Man, oh man, did I try. I really, really did. I swear. But I'm just not ever going to finish this book.

So here's what I don't like about these books. It took me awhile to put my finger on it, but here's the bottom line. Come close so I can whisper it in your ear. Ready?

n  Sherrilyn Kenyon is a big dork.n

That's right, I said it. She's trying to write (presumbly edgy) books about big, bad warriors in leather but she can't get the dialogue right because she's a big dork! No one has used the term "not" since 1991. (You know as in "Yeah, that'll happen - not!" Nope, not since 1991, and even then only 8 year old kids said it. This is only the most readily available example of lame dialogue - it certainly is not the only one. Kenyon is a dork which makes all of the characters in her books dorks. I like sharp dialogue, sue me.

The other big problem is that she has no sense of subtlety when it comes to the attraction between the hero and heroine. She likes to beat the reader over the head with it. Okay, I get it already! They're hot for each other. How about some story? Please?!

This particular book has some other weaknesses - namely that the plot is so deeply hidden behind all the sex and attraction and introduction of a myriad of new characters whose only purpose is to give her another hero for the next book that I simply got exhausted and gave up. I'm sure Talon found some way to get around his curse and they lived happily ever after. I just don't care how anymore. I'm done.

The only good thing about this book is what was good about the two that came before it, and presumably what will be good about the subsequent ones, and that is Talon's story.
The whole series is built around the premise of warriors who are only warriors because they suffered a great betrayal, and so far they all have really compelling betrayal stories. I liked reading about Talon's past.

And okay, both Talon and Sunshine are pretty likeable, but they're just not compelling in the way I need them to be.

So that's it. No more Dark Hunters for me. Sorry, guys.

This is the best way I can describe how I felt reading this book. I didn't read the previous books in the series, so I'm definitely at fault for feeling a little behind and lost but holy guacamole. I liked the book but trying to grasp all the characters, their identities, and all their agendas made me sweat from exhaustion.

How I imagine the author writing this. Seriously, we've got gods from EVERY mythology, paranormal beings, and bears, oh my! You know someone out there has cataloged all these characters, their connections, and biography; bless their heart.

If there was a visual of me reading this. Look, this book has been out a while and others have written amazing reviews for it, I'm not going to even attempt one. This is just all about my narcissistic need to put my feelings out there. Even with the massive amount of characters and story lines (the writing gets a little loose at times), I felt the need to hang on for the ride. There is a certain charm to characters and writing (the hero of this book, Talon, is also too hot to trot with his Celtic tattoos and general hero-ness) that kept me locked in. Our leads have the whole soulmate thing going on, so no gradual falling in love but kind of instant, they also got ignored more than I liked in favor of the overall story arcs.

I'll definitely be continuing with the series (so, there's like a dragon inside Acheron?!) and I guess just hope as more heroes/heroines get their individual stories, the books won't be as jammed packed and things will make more sense.
Or maybe I'm in for more of,

Either way, sign me up!
If you've read the series, discuss your feels and let me know if things improve/fall apart.

Thanks to Lover of Romance for the rec!

I knew if I hung in there I would start to like this series! This book was a lot of fun.

There is Talon, an ancient Celtic warrior chieftain who is now a Dark Hunter, and Sunshine, a hippy-chick artist who would forget her head if it wasn't attached. I loved Sunny! She is hilarious.

When they meet, Sunny saves Talon after he is run over by a float. Yes, a float. It makes sense when you read it. ;) So, she takes him back to her insanely pink loft and undresses him to wash his clothes while he sleeps. Of course, she washed his leather pants, and threw them in the dryer. And, then she left his wallet at the laundromat and it was stolen. And, to top it all off, she dropped his car keys and they fell down a drain. So, he wakes up with no pants, money, or the ability to drive his car...not to mention the fact that there is sunlight coming into the windows to fry him.

n  Talon looked uneasily at the woman and the faint sunlight in the room. He wondered which of them was the most lethal to him.n

This starts their adorable courtship. Yes, I said adorable. Sue me!

I love how Talon finds Sunny charming despite her air-headed ways. And, Sunny herself is hilarious and yet strong in spite of her quirks. She is just what he needs.

Aside from their story, we get a lot of glimpses into some of the other Dark Hunters and I can't wait to read their stories. Ash - what the hell is his deal? And, Zarek - can't wait for him to get a HEA! Oh, and even Nick, the squire. He is so sarcastic and funny. Love that guy!

On to the next book!

4.5 stars

A lot going on in this book. We met so many new people and world building, I think a lot of time was spent on future books. I still love Kieran. Talon was a great guy, but the love was a little too insta for me. I get they were souls makes, but two days with more fucking than talking doesn't breed love for me. The other problem was the narrator. She has such a wide range of voices and tones, I'm not sure why she used the same irritating voice for the female lead as the last book. For someone binge reading, it took some adjusting to say this isn't Amanda but Sunshine. I'm giving the next book a try because I like a broken guy. I pray the female lead isn't a whiny southern bell in tone.

[image error]OMG I missed my favorite characters, they were introduce in this book:D..from Vane, Val, Zarek, Wren, and Nick(oh my poor Nicky, I missed his old self, always teasing Ash, and always got a humor handy when there's a problem brewing in the story now in the new books he's all bad and untamable and hates everyone including Ash:) and oh found Dev in the story with the rest of the Peltier family where they owned the awesome Sanctuary, a famous Biker bar where "weres" like them can socialize with humans. its so amazing to read a series in a Non-chronological order, you'll just noticed something was missing until you went back to the first published books;]

[image error]the Hero is Talon/Speirr,a Dark Hunter. When he saved a woman from the Daimons in the street, he fell insta lust with her.
Sunshine is an Artist. When the man saved him from the Daimons, there was this Mardi Gras float that hit the man so he took him to her house...after a few days they have known each other there were dreams that hunt Sunshine in the past, a past where Talon was his husband in another life although Talon has the same features he was before, Sunshine was not. Talon had this feeling that his wife's soul was reincarnated into Sunshine's body. Happy to know that he found his wife again and the fact that Sunshine is completely different with his wife. He was falling inlove with Sunshine but two things was stopping him: 1. He was cursed by the Celtic god Camulus that when he falls inlove w/ a woman, she will die. 2. he's undead and has no soul and he is under the service of the goddess Artemis to fight the Daimons.

[image error]The romance was good, Sunshine was one quirky heroine and always forgot what she needed, and I'm glad she's not only sweet but also a tough girl who fights what she wants in life a perfect counterpart with the hero.Talon was amazing such a tortured man, and I love that Ash trust him to be cool and calm in order to fight his battles..I love that he live in the bayou, his pet alligator Beth was cute, huh? lol:D him and Sunshine were perfect match, sexy and lovable, but honestly the actions in the story were better than the romance in my opinion:)

[image error]There's so many things happened in this book that I wish I read it sooner..
Ash and the crew were amazing, there were funny moments that made me laugh and some of them were from Nick:D I missed his witty side so much:_(, there's a lot of actions going on here and Artemis arghh I really hate her in this book although I forgave her already,the series always quoted it that:Sorry do not fix anything and I don't like how she treated Ash even sexually:( I really want her to have a little bit of respect to Ash but she won't do it because of her pride:( in the book Acheron, everything change,where everything was too late to fix the love left broken:/.
[image error]this was the book were one brother had just known the past of their brother. Val for one, realizing that Zarek was his brother after all the centuries that his family treated Zarek as a whipping slave boy.(I still love Valerius better than Zarek regardless of the past:P)
and also Styxx even though he hates Ash for eleven thousand years..he finally realized what had happened in the past when goddess Mnimi gave him the punishment as a gift revisiting the past in Ash's eyes, which only made me cry all over again *sobs*[image error]

Talon de los Morrigantes se conforma con su vida de cazador oscuro y con sus relaciones de una sola noche, sin ataduras puesto que su enemigo nunca le permitiría ser feliz. Una noche Sunshine Runningwolf le salva de ser atropellado por una carroza, esta mujer bastante rarita parece amoldarse a lo que busca pero ahora Talon siente una conexión con ella y desearía más de una noche pero eso los pondría en peligro a los dos.
El segundo volumen de la serie me ha parecido muy completo, ha tenido de todo un poco, la relación de Talon y Sunshine, varias tramas de otros cazadores oscuros como Valerio, Zarek, Vane, el imprescindible de Ash y el incomparable escudero Nick y toda la parafernalia fantástica de conflictos entre cazadores y daimons.
La historia ha estado bien planteada, el personaje de Talon es interesante, tiene bastante tirón y magnetismo, su vida también, desde el principio nos oleremos algo que luego nos hará pondrá tiernos y románticos al máximo. Sunshine como pareja me ha parecido un rayo de sol como ella misma, al principio de conocerla os sacará unas risas con su particular forma de ser, así que la pareja siendo tan distinta él serio y ella algo disparatada se compenetran muy bien.
La trama de los cazadores oscuros en este volumen te atrapa todavía más, no solo con la historia principal sino con la del resto de personajes que te atrapa y te invita a leer el resto de los libros que corresponde a cada uno, así que me deja con ganas de saber más de Vane, Bride, Valerio y Wulf porque del resto (Zarek, Ash) he hecho algo de trampa y he leído sus novelas.
De momento esta novela se lleva las cinco estrellas y la serie va a mejor con cada libro que avanza y me tiene enganchada ya con las siguientes.