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Loading... The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, Book 1) (edition 2008)by Gena Showalter
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This one is so unnecessarily slow. Everything is repeated again and again and again. Every two pages there are recaps from 3 pages before. I feel like this book is meant for people suffering from dementia. The basic template is bdb but there are even more MINEs going around as well as a lot of unnecessary melodrama. In essence, just take all the old pnr tropes and multiply them by 3. Sadly more doesn't equal better. Oh, and true love trumps everything. Yea, it gets THAT cringy. I believe the same plot and characters, just written less poorly with a few adjustments to the end could have easily been a high 3 star. Instead, it's a low 2 stars. Pitty. The heroine's backstory was interesting, and the book did a pretty good job setting up the themes for the series and the other characters. Showalter succeeded at making a demon-possessed immortal burdened with a drive for violence into an empathetic, likable character by the end. =D Both main characters made some questionable decisions, but on the whole, I liked them. And although I don't usually cry from books, and even when I do it's like two tears, this one got me. My little heart was touched. =) A little bit of mystery, a lot of action, death and darkness. A lot of love. A fairytale really. This book was the first one to make me cry after twilight saga and Harry Potter. It was truly a page-turner and I can't wait to read more books in the series. It will be my pleasure to reveal all the secrets those demons and Titans and myths hold. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesBelongs to Publisher SeriesIs contained inLords of the Underworld Bundle: The Darkest Fire | The Darkest Night | The Darkest Kiss | The Darkest Pleasure by Gena Showalter Lords of the Underworld Collection 1: The Darkest Night/The Darkest Kiss/The Darkest Pleasure by Gena Showalter Has the adaptation
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HTML: All her life, Ashlyn Darrow has been tormented by voices from the past. To end the nightmare, she has come to Budapest seeking help from men rumored to have supernatural abilities, not knowing she'll be swept into the arms of Maddox, their most dangerous member--a man trapped in a hell of his own. Neither can resist the instant hunger that calms their torments...and ignites an irresistible passion. But every heated touch and burning kiss will edge them closer to destruction--and a soul-shattering test of love.... .No library descriptions found. |
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This story takes place in wintery Budapest. Maddox is an immortal Greek warrior and he’s the keeper of Violence, which means he holds the demon of Violence inside his body. See, thousands of years ago, Maddox and his fellow warriors opened Pandora’s Box and released all sorts of evil. Now each warrior has to keep a demon (the evil from the box) inside his body since the Box went missing. Each warrior took on characteristics of the demon but they got that under control, for the most part.
Anyway, he meets Ashlyn in present day as she climbs the mountain that the Lords’ fortress is on. She’s psychic and she can’t stop the voices that plague her every day. She goes to Buda, to the Lords, to beg for their help. The connection between them is instant though they don’t understand it. None of the men have brought a woman into the fortress, not even Paris who keeps the demon of Promiscuity (love him!), and Maddox’s friends don’t know what to do about Ashlyn. She brings chaos to the men and it’s hilarious. They fall in love quickly but it’s believable. Maddox is so gentle with her, even though he’s obviously a violent man, and even the demon inside him falls in love with her.
We meet most of the other guys, learn bits and pieces of their history, and the next two books in the series are set up in this book. I don’t like the author’s use of passive voice and I think this story, along with the series, would be much stronger if she wrote in active. Since I like this story a lot, I won't take a star off for the passive writing.
This is a great starter to an awesome series.
5 Stars
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