After reading The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, Book 1), I knew I wanted to continue reading Gena Showalter's Darkest Night Series.
The Darkest Kiss (Lords of the Underworld, Book 2) takes right off where The Darkest Night left off. In the Lords of the Underworld series, a group of immortal men live have been cursed to house demons for eternity. They opened Pandora's Box and now have to live with demons inside themselves. In The Darkest Kiss, Lucien, is the Keeper of Death.

As soon as Anya, goddess of Anarchy, finds the Lords of the Underworld, she falls in love with Lucien. She keeps herself hidden, and basically begins to stalk Lucien, following his every move. When she makes herself known to him, Lucien is weary of her. Hunters are always on the lookout for the immortals, wanting to kill them, especially the Lords of the Underworld. But once Lucien realizes Anya is not a hunter, he still wonders why she wants him. He is badly scarred and all the brothers consider him to be 'the ugly one'. But Anya won't give up that easy, she knows she wants Lucien and sets out to seduce him.

Lucien has been ordered by the gods to kill Anya, but he can't bring himself to do it. As the Lords of the Underworld travel distant locations in search of an ancient relic, Anya and Lucien pair up. Anya does everything she can to seduce him.

I enjoyed The Darkest Kiss (Lords of the Underworld, Book 2) . Lucien and Anya are great characters and the chemistry between the two is hot. I liked that Anya is a strong woman, she doesn't take 'no' for an answer and can take care of herself. Lucien is a great hero.

This is a fun series. I'll be reading book three. If you like paranormal romance, Alpha males and a fun and sexy plot, you may want to give this series a try. The love scenes were done really well.

The one thing I didn't like about this book was that towards the end, there was too much involved. The plot kept jumping from Anya and Lucien to a few of the other Lords. I felt like that made the book longer than it needed to be. But all in all, this was an enjoyable read ( )

This is the second of a series and the first book was clearly referred to, but despite not having read it, I could still follow along. Anya a not so minor goddess of Anarchy, has been following the Lords of the Underworld, and has developed a small case of sexual obsession for their leader, Lucien, who carried the demon Death. Lucien is as tortured a soul you could ask for, a man whose careless act (opening Pandora's box) unleashed demons who took host in his and his comrades bodies, and who then feel in love with a mortal woman, only to refuse to kill her when she fell ill, and hten watch her die painfullly. So he disfigured himself and hasn't had sex since (over a thousand years) Anya has her own issues to deal with and still they sparkle and attract each other. The sexual tension is good and the light hearted feel works. I'll read the next in the series. ( )

This is the perfect mix of love hate, the perfect battle of emotions. When a book can make me literally laugh out loud, then it's an automatic 5 stars! ( )

Summary:
She has tempted many men… but never found her equal.
Until now.
Though she has lived for centuries, Anya, goddess of anarchy, has never known pleasure. Until Lucien, the incarnation of death—a warrior eternally doomed to take souls to the hereafter. He draws her like no other. And Anya will risk anything to have him.
But when the merciless Lord of the Underworld is ordered by the gods to claim Anya herself, their uncontrollable attraction becomes an anguished pursuit. Now they must defeat the unconquerable forces that control them, before their thirst for one another demands a sacrifice of love beyond imagining.…

I love both of the main characters in this book. Anya is strong and independent, Lucian is controlled and methodical, and they both totally mess with each others heads. The book was steamy enough, and the plot line had sufficient twists. This book was more about the plot as a whole than the last book, which was good, but some of it seemed too rushed. For example, when Anya went from "Your ok" to "I love you"...I felt a bit rushed for that emotional leap. Lucian was a goner from the beginning though. I am curious as to what is going to happen with Paris, and the hunter getting killed, tricky, tricky. Overall not to bad, but not as good as the first still...two more to go though, hopefully one of them will trump Maddox and Ashlyn.

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Readers only get a glimpse of Anya in The Darkest Night and I wasn't sure what to think of her, but in The Darkest Kiss, she's fun to follow. She's Anarchy. There's some sort of chaos wherever she goes.

Anya thinks Lucien is hot despite how other women see him and what he thinks of himself. I love the verbal plays between Lucien and Anya; they misunderstand, then understand, and they lie to each other in hopes of shielding themselves, then to protect the other from a certain fate. They tug at each other's emotions while slowly revealing each others secrets and intentions. The chemistry between them is unique and incredible.

The kissing scenes are sexy. There is a whole lot of passion, wanting and surrender despite the ticking clock. After intense kissing, we know what happens next. I'm dying to read what happens in The Darkest Pleasure, the next installment to the Lords of the Underworld. ( )