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The Dream-Hunter by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dec. 1st, 2007 01:41 pmJust tried reading Sherrilyn Kenyon's The Dream-Hunter, apparently the first book in a spinoff series from the Dark Hunters books. My eyes were glazed over within the first 30 pages.
First off, the heroine has been estranged from her father for almost 10 years, hating him because he got her mother, brother and uncle killed, not to mention wrecked her entire childhood, searching for Atlantis. Considering that, for once, she seemed to be pretty justified in these opinions, i was all for it. But then she spent five minutes looking at Dad's notes and it was "OMG! Dad was right! I've been so wrong all these years and everything else is irrelevant and I must now devote my entire life to finding Atlantis as penance for being an unfilial daughter and I must make everyone who ever dismissed his claims to have found Atlantis realize how Wrong they were. Who cares that he got my entire family killed and ruined my childhood? I MUST PAY PENANCE AND RUIN MY OWN LIFE AS COMPENSATION SO I CAN PROVE HE WAS RIGHT LIKE ANY GOOD DAUGHTER!"
Oh, and then we jump 10 years later and a Dream Hunter is seducing her in her dreams. Not only is she doing the "I am a cold and reasonable woman of logic but oh he sets my body ablaze" thing modern romance heroines are so big on, but the Dream Hunters have always been portrayed as cold and...well...asexual, in the other books, so the whole thing just DOES NOT FIT.
I shall just stick to the Dark Hunters Proper books(and the Were Hunters, which are part of the regular series so far.)
Good thing I brought manga.
ETA: DANGIT! Flipped through it to see if it was important to the mytharc. Not only is it, apparently, but it also seems that Ash and Nick play an important part. I must now at least skim it for those parts. There will possibly be additional ETAs as I endure it(with xXxHoLic breaks to keep me sane.)
Now having finished the book, the short version is that the romance is crummy and the hero needs to have his spine ripped out and shoved through his torso a few dozen times. Obviously NOT the reaction I'm supposed to have to him, but oh well. I do, however, very much like Zebulon, the godkiller everyone else hates, and I ship him with Kat(who I've always rather liked...not passionately, as she's still a Mary Sue, but at least she's a cool and interesting one.) Sadly, as Kenyon is not J.R. Ward, I doubt it'll happen. The book also is actually a prequel to the series, taking place in 1996, and sets up various things for the series.
Pretty much, though, it's clearly Kenyon having to write a book because the publisher wants more Dark Hunters books. I think I read at her website that there are supposed to be 40 or so by the end.
First off, the heroine has been estranged from her father for almost 10 years, hating him because he got her mother, brother and uncle killed, not to mention wrecked her entire childhood, searching for Atlantis. Considering that, for once, she seemed to be pretty justified in these opinions, i was all for it. But then she spent five minutes looking at Dad's notes and it was "OMG! Dad was right! I've been so wrong all these years and everything else is irrelevant and I must now devote my entire life to finding Atlantis as penance for being an unfilial daughter and I must make everyone who ever dismissed his claims to have found Atlantis realize how Wrong they were. Who cares that he got my entire family killed and ruined my childhood? I MUST PAY PENANCE AND RUIN MY OWN LIFE AS COMPENSATION SO I CAN PROVE HE WAS RIGHT LIKE ANY GOOD DAUGHTER!"
Oh, and then we jump 10 years later and a Dream Hunter is seducing her in her dreams. Not only is she doing the "I am a cold and reasonable woman of logic but oh he sets my body ablaze" thing modern romance heroines are so big on, but the Dream Hunters have always been portrayed as cold and...well...asexual, in the other books, so the whole thing just DOES NOT FIT.
I shall just stick to the Dark Hunters Proper books(and the Were Hunters, which are part of the regular series so far.)
Good thing I brought manga.
ETA: DANGIT! Flipped through it to see if it was important to the mytharc. Not only is it, apparently, but it also seems that Ash and Nick play an important part. I must now at least skim it for those parts. There will possibly be additional ETAs as I endure it(with xXxHoLic breaks to keep me sane.)
Now having finished the book, the short version is that the romance is crummy and the hero needs to have his spine ripped out and shoved through his torso a few dozen times. Obviously NOT the reaction I'm supposed to have to him, but oh well. I do, however, very much like Zebulon, the godkiller everyone else hates, and I ship him with Kat(who I've always rather liked...not passionately, as she's still a Mary Sue, but at least she's a cool and interesting one.) Sadly, as Kenyon is not J.R. Ward, I doubt it'll happen. The book also is actually a prequel to the series, taking place in 1996, and sets up various things for the series.
Pretty much, though, it's clearly Kenyon having to write a book because the publisher wants more Dark Hunters books. I think I read at her website that there are supposed to be 40 or so by the end.