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The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Gena Showalter
Publisher: HQN Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  81 reviews
Sales Rank: 959
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0373772467
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780373772469
ASIN: 0373772467
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Product Description
All her life, Ashlyn Darrow has been tormented by voices from the past. To end the nightmare, she has come to Budapest seeking help from men rumored to have supernatural abilities, not knowing she'll be swept into the arms of Maddox, their most dangerous member—a man trapped in a hell of his own.Neither can resist the instant hunger that calms their torments…and ignites an irresistible passion. But every heated touch and burning kiss will edge them closer to destruction—and a soul-shattering test of love….
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 Been Done Before in a Better Way! September 6, 2008
The premise of this book is fantastic--warriors for the Greek gods betray their masters and open Pandora's box to release the demons inside because they are angry that they were not chosen to protect it. As punishment, they become the living boxes, one for each demon that was released. We go from there to a bunch of fraternity boys living in a monstrous fortress in the hills above Budapest, each one getting on with a demon inside. There are five of them and each one's story will eventually be published, in all its painful detail, as this book set the pattern for the two that followed. Oh, wait! The sudden arrival of five more immortal warriors with internal demons in the middle of the book (who show up because they miss their buddies!) means there will be at least ten books.
This book focuses on Maddox, who in inhabited by the demon of Violence. He spends his days doing boy stuff (working out, watching porn, reading romance novels (???!!!!???), and his evenings being murdered by his friends & then spending the night being tortured in hell. OK, whatever. He meets this totally wimpy, dipstick who hears voices because of her paranormal abilities and takes her home for some unearthly reason. They spend the next couple of days getting to know each other, at which point they decide they're totally in love and have lots of hot, overly descriptive sex. The wimpy dipstick (from hereforth known as Wimpstick) has a wonderful time alternating between hot sex, throwing up, getting locked in a room with some other female captives, and ends the tension with trying to discover a way to free Maddox from his curse of dying every night. Wimpstick is helped in her attempts by a silly, immature and sexually adventurous supernatural female named Anya (yeah, I assumed Siri had jumped series and left Acheron, but I was wrong).
The writing in this book is just so dull! The story drags on for a long, long time until anything happens. The demon-inhabited immortal warriors spend lots of time bonding & fighting bad guys (at least there are no drum circles). Wimpstick is absolutely unbelievable as a mate for Maddox and I could discern no reason that the two of them were suddenly attracted (we also learn she couldn't read until a year before they met, which adds absolutely NOTHING to the story line other than when they share giggles over the fact that they both read romance novels. The ending is pat and very predictable. I cannot recommend this book to anyone and for some reason, continued on & read the next two in the series, hoping they would get better. They didn't.
Can't wait to read the rest of the series! September 3, 2008
I won't rehash the plot - as it's already been done.
I liked this book a lot. The chemistry between Ashlyn and Maddox was there right from the beginning. He was dark, tortured and super sexy. She had a bit of a dark past herself and they were a good match. Their story, while complete, could have had a little bit more to it. It seemed like most of this book was setting the stage for subsequent installments of the series.
My only problem with this book was trying to keep all the Lords straight. I had to go back a few times to see who was who - and when the second set come to town, forget it!
I look forward to reading the next 2 books.
I just couldn't get into it... August 31, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book could have been good if I didn't read the Black Dagger Brotherhood by JR Ward first. The two series are turning out to be very very similar, and to me JR Ward did something that Gena Showalter cannot and that is make her readers fall in love with her characters.
I just could not sympathise with Maddox or Ashlyn. They annoyed me. And I couldn't follow their romance, it just seemed to happen without any real explanation and I didn't believe the chemistry between them.
Yes, I will read the next in the series to see how things develop. But I wasn't impressed with this novel.
So much better than Black Dagger Brotherhood August 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When others were comparing this series to J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood, I was a little scared because those books were cheesetastic and terrible. I decided to give this first one a try and liked it enough to read the other two in the series. Sure, a little cheesey, but in a good way. I'd recommended them for a fun/sexy read.
 Beach Reading - Yes, Page Turner - No! August 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read quite a few paranormal romance series and needed a new author. This series kept popping up as a recommended series based on my previous purchases at Amazon. The covers were cool and so I went to the author's home page to check her out - and liked what she had to say about writing the books. So I ordered all three books.
If you like to read paranormal romance that borders on a little "unrealistic" or say a little less urban fantasy and more pure paranormal fantasy -- then this series may be for you. I myself waited several months before finally buying this series because I knew that I probably wasn't going to go for the whole premise of a group of warriors having to live with demons inside of themselves because they opened pandora's box. And I didn't.
I never really felt invested in the romance between the two characters in The Darkest Night because I just had a hard time swallowing how the whole plot played out. Or maybe there just wasn't enough development of the characters and their romance -- because of the tons of other characters in the book. I'm not sure.
Now while I did finish this book and found some parts enjoyable - the reason why I wouldn't recommend the overall purchase of it as part of a series is because I simply could not get past chapter one in the second book in the series - The Darkest Kiss.
Bottom line is that if you are a JR Ward fan or of other author's with a similar urban fantasy/romance style. Then you may not go for this series.
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