Evermore: A Novel of the Darkyn (Signet Eclipse) | Lynn Viehl

Evermore: A Novel of the Darkyn (Signet Eclipse) | Lynn Viehl | 3.5 Stars? 4 Stars? Viehl's books are interesting, but inspire such mixed emotions for me.

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	Evermore: A Novel of the Darkyn (Signet Eclipse) Lynn Viehl Signet, 2008 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 18 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The NEW YORK TIMES AND USA Today bestselling Darkyn series continues... Jayr is proud to be the only female ever permitted to serve as seneschal to a Darkyn lord. But in her centuries of service to Master Byrne, she has fallen in love with him. Now, Byrne plans to step down and hand over the Jardin to another Kyn lord-a move that threatens not only Jayr's position, but her very life...

Exciting

So far Viehl has proved entertaining and not predictable. Could read this book again. Will wait impatiently for the next!

3.5 Stars? 4 Stars? Viehl's books are interesting, but inspire such mixed emotions for me.

I am so mixed in my feelings about Evermore, and truly, I always hestitate before buying the Darkyn books, because while there are always interesting parts to the books, Viehl in keeping her books on the dark side of paranormal romance, always seems to include a bit of twisted characters indulging in gratuous torture or victimizing sex-- I guess because when the 'good' guys are preditors that control humans with no remorse, you've got to toss in something extreme to make the evil guys stand out.

While the torture was offsceen on this one, there was still enough of the evil guys (some human) this time indulging in thoughts of perpetrating sexual abuse or bad Darkyn compelling sex on someone in thrall, which I find disturbing. And in this book, this stuff really feels pasted in. I can tolerate a bit if it is necessary to develop some significant part of the story, but here these scenes could have been easily left out they didn't add to the plot at all. The bad guys in the first scene at the start of the book go away never to appear again and we would have disliked Nottingham even without his 'charming' introduction. While I really disliked those pieces of the book, much of the rest of the book was interesting. I liked Jahr and Byrne, both their well developed characters and their relationship, even though the language in their love scenes was a bit odd -- guess it was supposed to reflect Byrne's still medieval thinking. Also in Evermore, as always, I liked the parts with Alex, I like her character's fortrightness, insight and unwillingness to let all these moldy old guys force her into a mold not fitting a modern women and I like how her participation ties the books together. And I also liked Robin of Locksley and all the secrets.

Overall my reactions to the book were a patchwork of positive and negative much like the book was a mix of a bunch of different story threads, leaving me not knowing how many stars to give Evermore -- since for me, parts were one or two stars and other parts four or five. So I guess that averages out to 3.5 or 4 stars depending on how I weight the various sections. But, having said all that, if you are a fan of the series you will probably like Evermore because it really does have the flavor of the rest of the books in the series, and I need to learn not to buy these Darkyn books because my reaction is really always pretty much the same and the 'eeww' residual lingers.

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Still loving her style

Viehl writes awesomely, and her plots are still full of twists and surprises that holds you in awe. I use to love all her books, but this one I didn't like that much as the previous ones, but I still love it (the others got five stars, this one four), because I didn't got to relate to Byrne that much and it took me a little time to grow attached to his suzerain, who ended being an appreciated character. I didn't like Robin a lot either. I usually love all the characters created by her, they are strong types and very interesting, well designed ones, but I suppose all of them couldn't be likeable by everyone...

I still loved the book and it got better and better, and as usually happens with this author I ended up loving her book and getting surprised at the end. Now I'm awaiting the next one, about Valentin Jaus, who I utterly love.

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First and still thinking if it should be the last.

Yes this is my first book of Lynn Viehl but I also bought "If Angels Burn". I'm not sure if I want to read that book anymore. Here is why before I go into what I think about "Evermore". I just do not like Alex because I think she is annoying. She just rubs me the wrong way with her look on the world, especially the Darkyn world in which she is now a part of. Sure I can understand that it takes time to adjust to a world that you were not born into but seriously I think she is so narrow minded when it comes to things that she not know much about. Plain and simple, I just don't like Alex.

Anyways, although I adore Jayr and Bryne I give this book 3 stars because there's just not enough of them. There are too much of the other stuff going on that you began to question whether this book is suppose to be about them or is it just a continuation of another book with a brief introduction of other couples (such in this case would be Jayr and Bryne). This book definitely can not be read as a stand alone because it does get confusing. There are no explanations of what and who the Darkyns are or the status rank of Bryne and Michael. So unless you read the earlier books first, you definitely can be lost.

And yes, how did Knottingham know about the birthmark? It was not explained. I can understand how Locksley would know since he seen it when she was a child but what about Knottingham? Locksley is a very interesting guy, hopefully we'll get a book about him then this book will definitely not be the last.

Well whatever. All and all this was an ok book. It had great potential. If only she given us more of Jayr and Bryne.

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