Night Embrace (Dark-Hunter, Book 3) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | What we all wished for Sherrilyn Kenyon...

Night Embrace (Dark-Hunter, Book 3) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | I really wanted to like this book!

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	Night Embrace (Dark-Hunter, Book 3) Sherrilyn Kenyon St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2006 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 100 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

What we all wished for Sherrilyn Kenyon gave us!

Night Enbrace is a fun and sexy read. Everything a girl dreams of are all in this book. Your wildest fantasty comes to life in black and white from the talented brain of Sherrilyn Kenyon. I really insist that you buy/read this book. You'll never want to put in down. Thank you, Sherrilyn Kenyon for a picture of the man of my dreams. (smiles)

I really wanted to like this book!

Okay, I must not be the target audience for the Dark-Hunter series. I rate it 3, maybe 3.5 stars tops. I should have stopped when the hero describes the heroine as smelling like patchouli and turpentine - I did not relate to artist, Sunshine at all!

The premise of this paranomal series is good and I really liked Fantasy Lover, but some of the "hip" dialogue and repetitive adjectives in this book get a little old after awhile. Similar to Night Pleasures, this is an average story strung together by several Hot sex scenes - I do have to give the author credit for doing those well! I liked Talon, adore Acheron, and like Zarek. I know Zarek will be featured in another book and eventually Ash will have his own story, so I will probably continue reading the series to see how things play out.

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I like the side characters best

This is the 3rd book (if you include Fantasy Lover)in the Dark-Hunter series. I personally think Fantasy Lover was the best as the story line was entertaining and heart wrenching at the same time. The second book, Night Pleasures, was unique and suspenseful. By the third book, Night Embrace, the whole bad boy with the heart of gold and a horrible past that he needs to get over to accept love is a bit tiring. What annoys me most about this book is that most of it is wasted on the two leads repeating "it won't work, I can't have him/her". Well, have you tried!? Sheesh, no wonder it won't work, no relationship will work if the two people in it refuse to figure out what needs to be done to keep it going. Instead of figuring out what they can do to be together, they automatically condemn their future and try every way to justify the relationship will fail.

I personally like the side character's interactions best (and that's a really sad thing to say about a book). I thought the humor between Julian, Kyrian, Vane, Fang, Acheron, etc was witty and entertaining. The heart break and drama between Talon and Sunshine is so rediculous that I kept skipping to the ending. I personally have a hard time believing someone who lasted thousands of years and had his heart so guarded all that time will get so emotionally involved with a perfect stranger. The author spent so much time writing about how horrid his tragic past is and how it scarred him for life that I question why he bother keep going back? I know they're soulmates but how can they tell, obviously conversation was not a big part of their relationship. The basis of their relationship is grunting and dirty talks while doing the deed. Heck he didn't even tell her he was a Dark Hunter, she found out from her friend! So I can only base from my reading that these two had a purely physical relationship and nothing else. So how can their heart "break" and "pain ripped through" them if they don't even really know the other person. Obviously from their past they've had one night stands and they had no problems moving on.

Honestly, this was a luke warm version of Kyrian and Amanda and I expected better from Sherrylin Kenyon. I understand her fanscination with bad boy Greek men, but must they all have long blond (on the occasion black) hair, are seriously wealthy, and over 6 ft (how many middle ages men are that tall?) physical perfections of manhood while the women are plain jane with a touch of girl next door? For once, please have at least half the men be normal and realistic. Oh and must every one of them have that god awful sneer and express their temper through animalistic growls or hissing? You'd think after a few thousand years they would learn to better articulate themselves than grunting?

Is it me or does the author really hate Romans? I know she wrote a Dark Hunter book on Valerius who was a Roman general but seems like everyone else is pretty much Greek. The things said in the books about Romans a very biased and made the good guy an exception instead. Come on, the whole entire Roman race can't be THAT bad. Um are we just a tad biased?

I know we didn't read these books because we wanted reality, but does it have to be this rediculous? At least make it believable. Still, it's served its entertainment value. Just not something I rush back to pick up again though. Personally I am a bit embarassed to buy the books because the cover usually have some scantilly clad beefcake and it gets quite a few looks during check out.

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