Obsessed with the latest Sherrilyn Kenyon book...

[dangermousie]

My life has been taken over by Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Styxx, which is book number eight bazillion in her Dark Hunters series, is 836 pages long (you could use it as a murder weapon!) and is the first DH book I have read since Acheron, which came out in 2008, was also a gazillion pages long, and had enough angst and suffering to trigger mass depression

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[world_of_blade]

I have left the Dark Hunters alone as well. Truthfully I was not impressed with Acheron, but I might have just had way too much riding on the book. Anyway, I too saw that Styxx was out- but was to worried to give it a try.. but I might just have to after reading this.

[dangermousie]

This is a much better book than Acheron, I think. I mean, I love Ash as a character, but due to the constraints of the narrative she couldn't really do much about his past and so the unrelenting abuse got a bit much, not because of the level of abuse but because the critical part of hurt/comfort is to have some comfort for the hurt! With Styxx, because we don't know anywhere nearly as much about his life, she was free to do a narrative she wanted, I think, and I tend to think of Styxx as sort of Acheron with all the parts I didn't like fixed. I mean, there is plenty of patented Kenyon torture, but this time the h/c has breaks (and he gets to hit back, both in personal and military ways) and, more importantly, the 'comfort' component is there - Styxx has a mentor who loves him, Bethany is awesome as an OTP, and he gets interludes with her that periodically get to fix his damage

[world_of_blade]

I did like Born of Silence, so I guess I should give Styxx a try. I also totally agree with you about Tory. She made me roll my eyes a lot.

[dangermousie]

Honestly, I am still sad my favorite Kenyon character got such a boring OTP. I wanted someone more involved and cooler...Tory was pretty blah.

[kitkat_cat]

Ahhhh, Sherrilyn Kenyon. Ash's book was really tough on me, all the angst and torture was very difficult to read. I've bought Styxx and I'm sitting on it still. Gone to re-read Elizabth Hunter's Elemental series to try to work myself up to Styxx.

[dangermousie]

I liked Styxx's book a lot more than Ash's. Also, maybe I've just gotten desensitized in the last 5 years, but I found it a lot easier to get through, torture-wise (I mean, I know people are saying his background is as bad as Ash's and I agree, but for some reason, I found it an easier reading).