Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780312949389
ISBN: 0312949383
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2006-06-27
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release Date: 2006-06-27
Studio: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Customer Rating:
Summary: Definitely one of my favs
Comment: Well, this is my favorite of the series so far anyway. My aunt told me about this series on Friday and here it is on Tuesday and I've so far gotten to book 5 despite moving this weekend. Anyway, I think this may be one of my favorite romances. It was a serious page turner and the characters were actually good people without being Mary Sues. When Kenyon wrote the dream sequences of Zarek's past, I actually shed a tear (and not only because I need to replace my contacts), it was so wonderfully tragic and pitiful (this is only okay for me in a romance because the hero is so totally un-pathetic). I've read so many romances over the years and while I do enjoy them, this is the first one to actually touch me in a long time (okay that sounds weird). You know how it is, most romances read very similarly (nothing wrong with that), but this one seemed different to me. So seriously, give it a shot, you won't regret it.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: On the fence
Comment: I have mixed feelings about Zarek's book. I loved his biting sense of humor, but the overall cruelty he suffered throughout his human and immortal life was a little too much. As a warning before you read, I think Kenyon went overboard making Zarek's life as miserable as possible. It made the book depressing and I felt more frustrated at all the injustice that even his happy ending couldn't completely erase.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: My All Time Favorite Author
Comment: Sherilyn makes the men ..men and the women strong.. mixed in with humor and hot erotic scenes.. Great Read!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: 4.5 stars
Comment: This is the 4th book in the Dark-Hunter series.

Zarek is a Dark Hunter who's been mostly banished to Alaska because he destroyed a village he was supposed to protect--900 years ago--and rather than killing him outright, this is his "second chance." Between his human life as a hideously abused slave, and his centuries of isolation, he has a not-undeserved reputation for insanity. In Night Embrace, he showed up in New Orleans to help out, and got himself noticed, so he's expecting the assassins any day now.

When Thanatos, the killer of Dark Hunters shows up, Zarek can't help fighting, but he knows it's all over. Except that he ends up waking up in a warm, soft bed, and finds himself in the company of the beautiful, compassionate, and blind Astrid.

Astrid is the strictest of the Olympian judges, known for never having found a subject not guilty, and she's been tasked with judging Zarek. She's also scrupulously fair, and burned out on her job. Every time she's ready to pronounce Zarek guilty, he does something that makes her wait, and reevaluate.

Of course, they fall in love (look at the spine--it's a romance), and it's sweet and poignant--Zarek having never in all those centuries known affection, and Astrid being torn between her duty and emotions.

And in the process, a lot of things are cleared up, things which got to be pretty darn infuriating.

Zarek has got to be one of the most extremely tortured heroes I've read. His absolute devotion to duty in spite of all he's been put through is both admirable, and just a wee bit too much for me. His temper does... heh... temper it somewhat, but I still found it a little too good to be true that he never, in all those centuries, was even tempted to turn on those colleagues who'd long ago turned their backs on him. Still, it was only a half-star's worth of irritation.

I see why this series has such devoted followers. What I'm still struggling with understanding is that as much as I've loved all the books in this series that I've read, I don't feel invested in it.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Zerek's Book
Comment: Sherrilyn Kenyon is a wonderful writter... In this book she puts the unexpected back into Zerek's life and keeps you on the edge of your seat

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