Somehow I have never read the Dark-Hunter series. I know! I’m almost embarrassed to admit it here, but have decided you should know I’ll be taking the Dark-Hunter journey for the first time with out December group read. Yes, I’ll finally be cracking open the copy of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Fantasy Lover that has sat on my to-read shelf for years. (I’m not the only one who buys books when they have hundreds to be read, right?)
I know many of you will be re-reading this first in the series for the group read, but I want to encourage the other first-timers to give it a go with me. From what I hear, we’re in for a hell of a ride and plenty of romance. It’s winter. We need extra romance, right?
Sound off in the comments below: Will you be reading or re-reading Fantasy Lover with the VBC crew in December? Expect discussion questions up at the VBC Goodreads boards soon.
Fantasy Lover (Dark-Hunter #1)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Published: 2002 (St. Martin’s)
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Dear Reader,
Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn’t. And being cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior’s day.
As a love-slave, I know everything about women. How to touch them, how to savor them, and most of all, how to pleasure them. But when I was summoned to fulfill Grace Alexander’s sexual fantasies, I found the first woman in history who saw me as a man with a tormented past. She alone bothered to take me out of the bedroom and onto the world. She taught me to love again.
But I was not born to love. I was cursed to walk eternity alone. As a general, I had long ago accepted my sentence. Yet now I have found Grace–the one thing my wounded heart cannot survive without. Sure, love can heal all wounds, but can it break a two-thousand-year-old curse?
Julian of Macedon
I’m so glad you guys decided to read this one. I’ve had this book in my to be read pile for months.
the dark hunter series is in my top 5. “acheron” (book 15)is the cream of the crop. good reading to you all! 🙂
Do be aware that Fantasy Lover is unlike ANY of the other Dark-Hunter books so much that many lists do not include it as book #1. It is a very good novel but the main thing you get from it (other than a good story) is some characters you will see again 🙂