One Silent Night

Oh how the plot tickens, and how we learn about our enemies weakness... Very exciting! And I love the fighting scenes :) ( )

Rating: 2.5 starsIt's a novella, really. I liked reading about other pantheons, and about the "other side" (read: the daimons). Not crazy about their treatment of the character Jared, but I liked what he symbolizes and I like the mythology invented by Sherrilyn Kenyon. ( )

An interesting enough romance from the bad guy/girl POV. My favorite thing about the story were the Nick parts. Not up to par with some of her original/beginning books but still okay. Probably a must read in view of the overarching story and mythology. ( )

This book was a bit different than I expected, but I did enjoy it. I liked learning more about Stryker, but it seemed a bit forced in places. As much as I like the happy endings, it seems like they're getting a little forced as well. There has to be some sort of conclusion to this series, but it seems like it's going the direction that they're just going to destroy the world. I will keep reading. Hopefully, there will be something that's not far fetched to end the series. ( )

Each entry in the Dark-Hunter series told of a hunter (were, dark, dream) finding true love and redemption. So, I was thrown for a loop when one of the series mainstay villains found his true love - Stryker. When he releases the primal entity known as War to kill Nick and Ash, he discovers she is still alive and that he still loves her.

More than anything, the purpose of this story seemed to be to introduce a new arc in the overall mythology (rather than a romance), including a new "pantheon" and also to make Nick into a more pivotal player. Nick's not really human; he's the last of the Malachai - uberpowerful immortals created to fight other uberpowerful immortals, the Sephirii, of whom the last is Jared. The groups were soldiers for higher-lever gods who want to rule the world. Blah, blah, blah. Honestly, I think the mythology is getting unnecessarily convoluted, and I'm just not a fan of Nick. Making him half of an innately evil demon race to somehow explain his unreasoning hatred and desire to kill Ash seems like a cop-out. And, it's gotten to the point where the series is no longer about the Dark-Hunters, it's about the ever increasing number of gods. And the "romance" was not romantic, it was strange, to say the least. Stryker wants to kill mankind, and at the end of this story he still does. Only now he has his true love to help him in his war. And for her part, she's a bloodthirsty woman who cruelly tortures Jared when she's not lusting after Stryker. It's difficult to identify with and root for the loving couple who wants to destroy the world.

The mythology has the potential to be interesting, but I'm afraid it's going to take over the series. Overall, this was a weak entry that was already fighting an uphill battle as the book that followed "Acheron," and got lost in the technobabble. It kept me interested and turning the pages, but didn't leave me satisfied. I still recommend the series, but really hope the next book brings the magic back. ( )