BUT HERE WE GO!! Oh my heavens i'm so excited to share this book! Today i'm gonna tell you about "The Darkest Kiss" by Gena Showalter from her Lords of the Underworld Series.
The Darkest Kiss is by far my favorite in the bundle... it's all about self sacrifice and the beauty that'swithin. It's about deeper things than just judging someone from the outside... which the main guy Lucien does ALOT.
A little history on the series to make it easy to understand. The books are about the Lords, who were created in the heavens as Zues's personal army. They protected him for thousands of years until a bunch of demons escaped hell, were placed in Pandora's box, and the box given to Pandora for safe keeping. Being a woman, the Lords were offended and decided they would steal and release the demons only to recapture them and show Zeus that THEY were the right choice as guardians, not her. But they failed. The demons wreaked havoc on Earth and the box was lost forever.... so the Gods punished the Lords by placing a demon within each to be housed and contained by the Lord. The demon's keeper, if you will. They were then banished from the heavens to Earth where they live in Buda. ....
So book two here, The Darkest Kiss, is about Lucien who was the Captain of the Guard and is the most level headed of the bunch. He is the one who "fixes" everything and makes sure everyone is safe and happy .... But Lucien hosts "Death" and has to escort souls everyday to either heaven or hell... its an emotionally taxing business and he had learned to shut down ALL emotion. At some point in his long life he fell in love, and she died... to make sure he never went through the heartbreak again he ruined his face and body so no other woman would fall for his beautiful face and force him to take their soul when the time came for death to visit. His face is heavily scarred and he is a brute of a man so it's terrifying to most. It had been thousands of years since he had felt the touch of a female.....
Then in walks Anya.. who just happens to be a goddess - the goddess of Anarchy. She is the epitome of sex walking. I'm talking skanked out bimbo style with a face that only the Gods could have created. But Anya is cursed... and is being hunted by the new God King Cronus. (bom bom bom!).
Anya is immediately drawn to Lucien and wants him badly... but he isn't giving her a chance. Naturally he is suspicious because, well, he's ugly. But Anya thinks otherwise and her play at him is just funny! Then when they finally kiss, and sizzle sizzle sizzle is this kiss, cronus appears and orders Lucien to kill her. That's when things get good!
Lucien has to fight is attraction to Anya, her strength andcourage and sense of humor -- or fight the God King who will kill all he loves (the other lords). The majority of the book is Lucien trying to kill Anya but not being able to bring himself to do it because she's just so quick to fight him back and he just doesn't see what she could have done to deserve Cronus's wrath. The only logical explanation he can think of is that this body with legs for miles has either spurned him, cheated on him, or slept with someone she shouldn't have..... little does Lucient know that Anya's curse would never have allowed for such a thing and the judging and hurt comes in.
Oh it's just so good! To see all the play by plays. And the action! Holy cow there's alot of actionto be read -- fight here, fight there, battle here, battle there.... then you get into the good part (wink wink) and it's just an amazing book. Best part is that you just FALL IN LOVE with these Lords and want them to finally be happy. Once you understand the havoc they go through day in and day out to sate and cope with their demons everything in you just HOPES for the best for each of them. Its just amazing! Definately worth a read.
1 comment:
This totally sounds like a new, different series to try out. I love reading your explanation of it too! ;)
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