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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
medium-paced
First up I’m not going to argue which PNR author was “first” or who is better. Which one had THE idea first and who branched off of it—or stole it. No. I will say that if you’ve finally cracked and joined all of the hub-a-bulu about it there’s certain authors who’s names just keep popping up. J.R. Ward, Kresley Cole, Nalini Singh, Karen Marie Moning, Richelle Mead, Jeaniene Frost, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and Gena Showalter are some of the names at the top of the list. So far I’ve tried all of them with pretty decent success rates. Except for Gena Showalter.
One day I picked up DN off of the shelf in the book store and was ready to purchase it. There was an obscenely long line and I decided to start reading it. Twenty pages in I was unimpressed. (Let’s just say I put the book back and bought a better one.) So when a Ebook copy landed in my lap, the first twenty or so pages where just as unimpressive.
The main character is a the damsel in distress, who has a rare gift that makes here a freak to anyone—except her soon to be mate. Besides her cute penchant for romance novels, herself doubt, insecurities, and total lack of a personality make for a boring time. The “soon to be mate” in question also happens to be a cookie cutter guy. He’s a immortal guardian who’s bonded to the Demon of Violence. That means a lot of mean words, thoughts, grrs, and basically alpha attitude. (Basically he could have popped out of any stereo typical romance.)
What did keep me going was the tease of Showalter’s humor that kept popping up, and the wickedly awesome mythology. The idea of men being the ones to open Pandora’s box amuses me beyond belief! Especially since it was as something as silly as making a point to the gods that they should be the ones protecting it. Learning about each warrior and the demon inside them soon became a heady addiction for me.
At the first of the book the Greek gods are in control and within a matter of page turns the Titans have escaped and the new upper management is already making the Lords lives miserable. Those miserable lives actually interested me more than the main couples. Reyes, possessing the Demon of Pain, meets his lady love when they kidnap her and her entire family. The Titans want Arion, Demon of Wrath, to kill them all. If he refuses he will go insane with the need to kill them. This makes for a pretty interesting triangle, the lady love, the man who loves her, and the best friend of the man who loves her want to kill her. So much better than a love triangle!
It’s a fascinating world on one of my favorite mythologies! Taking the old legend of Pandora’s box and giving it a new life. Sure the main focus of this book left a lot to be desired, but everybody needs to find their footing. The couple had enough of a “personality” that at times I found them very cute, and of course cheered them on. The mythology, other Lords of the Underworld, and promising twists of the future books are sure to make up for it.
Sexual Content: Bad language, dirty talk, and sex scenes. One of the Lords is promiscuity so you know things are really gonna get dirty.
2/5- Average/disappointing, library check-out
Originally posted at Book Whispers.
One day I picked up DN off of the shelf in the book store and was ready to purchase it. There was an obscenely long line and I decided to start reading it. Twenty pages in I was unimpressed. (Let’s just say I put the book back and bought a better one.) So when a Ebook copy landed in my lap, the first twenty or so pages where just as unimpressive.
The main character is a the damsel in distress, who has a rare gift that makes here a freak to anyone—except her soon to be mate. Besides her cute penchant for romance novels, herself doubt, insecurities, and total lack of a personality make for a boring time. The “soon to be mate” in question also happens to be a cookie cutter guy. He’s a immortal guardian who’s bonded to the Demon of Violence. That means a lot of mean words, thoughts, grrs, and basically alpha attitude. (Basically he could have popped out of any stereo typical romance.)
What did keep me going was the tease of Showalter’s humor that kept popping up, and the wickedly awesome mythology. The idea of men being the ones to open Pandora’s box amuses me beyond belief! Especially since it was as something as silly as making a point to the gods that they should be the ones protecting it. Learning about each warrior and the demon inside them soon became a heady addiction for me.
At the first of the book the Greek gods are in control and within a matter of page turns the Titans have escaped and the new upper management is already making the Lords lives miserable. Those miserable lives actually interested me more than the main couples. Reyes, possessing the Demon of Pain, meets his lady love when they kidnap her and her entire family. The Titans want Arion, Demon of Wrath, to kill them all. If he refuses he will go insane with the need to kill them. This makes for a pretty interesting triangle, the lady love, the man who loves her, and the best friend of the man who loves her want to kill her. So much better than a love triangle!
It’s a fascinating world on one of my favorite mythologies! Taking the old legend of Pandora’s box and giving it a new life. Sure the main focus of this book left a lot to be desired, but everybody needs to find their footing. The couple had enough of a “personality” that at times I found them very cute, and of course cheered them on. The mythology, other Lords of the Underworld, and promising twists of the future books are sure to make up for it.
Sexual Content: Bad language, dirty talk, and sex scenes. One of the Lords is promiscuity so you know things are really gonna get dirty.
2/5- Average/disappointing, library check-out
Originally posted at Book Whispers.
This is the hot introduction to one of the hottest series I've read, and what got me hooked on Gena. The Lords are an uber sexy bunch of mythologically cursed dudes that provided fodder for tons of fun, violence, and sex. The premise of this series is what keeps me coming back for more. This novel in particular is a great intro to the series and just makes you want to keep learning more and more about the Lords and their curse. Violence himself has quite the cross to bear, and his unique leading lady is a refreshing breath of air. Definitely pick this and all of Gena's stuff up!!!
Review to come, but I did read this one super fast & liked the premise of it.
There was way more sex scenes in this book than I was expecting but I think I actually enjoyed it. It was a huge case of lust at first site but that wasn't really a bad thing in this book. I loved the mixture of Greek mythology and romance but especially the mixture of the men and their demons. I thought it was a great idea and it made for a different kind of story. I can't wait to learn more about them in the next books!
I don’t know why it took me so long to succumb to The Lords of The Underworld (LOTU) series, but it did. I love the Demonica series, The Black Dagger Brotherhood and the Midnight Breed series and Gena Showalter’s series has a similar structure and always attracted me in some level.
A while back i got the prequel, Darkest Fire, I liked it, but wasn’t that impressed. I started The Darkest Night back then too, but it didn’t really grab me so I gave it a break.
I got an ARC for one of the Series’ 2010 release, so i decided to read the rest of the books before digging into it. I just can’t read the 5th or 6th books of a series without reading the rest, does anyone else has that problem? LOL
Well, I am happy to say that this time around, The Darkest Night caught me good! I have been in a LOTU obsession these past couple days and I just can’t stop reading it. I’m on the third book right now and loving it =)
The LOTU series follows the PNR pattern of following a group of supernatural being and each book gives us the HEA (Happily Ever After) of each one of them.
The Lords of the Underworld were Immortal Greek Warriors that worked for the Gods of old, until one day Zeus left an important Box to be guarded by Pandora and the other Warriors felt cheated. They opened the box, releasing a horde of Demons onto the world and killed Pandora. As a punishment for their act, Zeus bonded each of them to a Demon and left them to fend for themselves for all eternity, banishing them from Mount Olympus.
Maddox is bonded to the demon of Violence and since he was the one to kill Pandora, he is cursed to die as she did every night and spend the whole night being tortured in hell and wake up the next day to start all over again.
Ashlyn has always been different, being able to hear whatever has been said at any given time, wherever she goes and has been raised in an institute and unknowingly been used for her ability by a group that has been hunting The Lords since ancient Greece, called Hunters.
I loved both Maddox and Ashlyn, they are such strong characters with such difficult pasts and different kinds of curses. Maddox is Violence, but Ashlyn calms him; whenever Ashlyn is close to Maddox the voices are quiet and he is her silence in midst torment.
"I love you, too. So much. I'm a violent man with violent emotions, but I do not want you ever to fear that I'll become violent with you. I can't hurt you. It would be worse than cutting out my own heart."
They are perfect for each other in every way and their love goes above and beyond any obstacles. The sacrifices they are willing to make for each other are humbling and were really beautiful to read about. They are also sexy as hell, with great chemistry and got me fanning myself whenever they got together!
The Lords of the Underworld is a very dark series where the line between Heroes and Villains has never been thinner, the LOTU are strong, cursed, damned and victims of the natures of the demons that inhabit them, but they are also honorable and fight their demons’ natures all the time.
I really enjoyed that duality and I am really looking forward to reading the stories of each lord. This is definitely a greats series to read if you are a PNR fan =)
A while back i got the prequel, Darkest Fire, I liked it, but wasn’t that impressed. I started The Darkest Night back then too, but it didn’t really grab me so I gave it a break.
I got an ARC for one of the Series’ 2010 release, so i decided to read the rest of the books before digging into it. I just can’t read the 5th or 6th books of a series without reading the rest, does anyone else has that problem? LOL
Well, I am happy to say that this time around, The Darkest Night caught me good! I have been in a LOTU obsession these past couple days and I just can’t stop reading it. I’m on the third book right now and loving it =)
The LOTU series follows the PNR pattern of following a group of supernatural being and each book gives us the HEA (Happily Ever After) of each one of them.
The Lords of the Underworld were Immortal Greek Warriors that worked for the Gods of old, until one day Zeus left an important Box to be guarded by Pandora and the other Warriors felt cheated. They opened the box, releasing a horde of Demons onto the world and killed Pandora. As a punishment for their act, Zeus bonded each of them to a Demon and left them to fend for themselves for all eternity, banishing them from Mount Olympus.
Maddox is bonded to the demon of Violence and since he was the one to kill Pandora, he is cursed to die as she did every night and spend the whole night being tortured in hell and wake up the next day to start all over again.
Ashlyn has always been different, being able to hear whatever has been said at any given time, wherever she goes and has been raised in an institute and unknowingly been used for her ability by a group that has been hunting The Lords since ancient Greece, called Hunters.
I loved both Maddox and Ashlyn, they are such strong characters with such difficult pasts and different kinds of curses. Maddox is Violence, but Ashlyn calms him; whenever Ashlyn is close to Maddox the voices are quiet and he is her silence in midst torment.
"I love you, too. So much. I'm a violent man with violent emotions, but I do not want you ever to fear that I'll become violent with you. I can't hurt you. It would be worse than cutting out my own heart."
They are perfect for each other in every way and their love goes above and beyond any obstacles. The sacrifices they are willing to make for each other are humbling and were really beautiful to read about. They are also sexy as hell, with great chemistry and got me fanning myself whenever they got together!
The Lords of the Underworld is a very dark series where the line between Heroes and Villains has never been thinner, the LOTU are strong, cursed, damned and victims of the natures of the demons that inhabit them, but they are also honorable and fight their demons’ natures all the time.
I really enjoyed that duality and I am really looking forward to reading the stories of each lord. This is definitely a greats series to read if you are a PNR fan =)
Struggling to finish this, I'm almost there and I can't wait! I hate to leave a book unfinished. Came recommended by friends who loved it and usually have the same taste in books as me, however this book is dreadful! I'm going to be diplomatic and say I just don't like her style of writing so I won't be reading the rest of the series!
This book reminded me a lot of the Black Dagger Brotherhood books by[a:J.R. Ward|20248|J.R. Ward|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1355342653p2/20248.jpg].
I can't handle the lack of romantic plot line development in this book. It's the "love-at-first-sight" trope, but the male is possessed by demonic violence and the woman is experiencing Stockholm Syndrome. DNF.
Maddox and his brothers are Immortals from ancient Greece, each of them carrying their own burden to pay for opening the Pandora box eons ago. Our dark hero is also cursed, an extra gift from the Gods for his misconduct. Shuffling through a meaningless life, they hate but accept their Fate, until something disrupts their fragile equilibrium. The Gods are threatened, Hunters are invading the Lords’ refuge and a woman sets passions ablaze. Are those changes for better or for worst?
The entire lore in this novel was a breath of fresh air in a literature full of vampires, werewolves and angels. Immortals sharing their bodies with demons, constantly fighting for control is rather interesting and opens up to so many possibilities. And Gods and Titans fighting for supreme power over the earth? Definitely unheard of. The first novel felt like an introduction to the entire Lore and I’m sure there is much more to discover in the following books, but it grabbed my attention that’s for sure.
The characters have a lot of potential, each Lord have their own curse, linked to their demon, personality, and strengths. One of the thing that bothered me a bit though, is that the two main characters fell for each other way too easily and even though the passion was described and worked perfectly at some points (see shower scene), it sometimes felt fake and superficial. I just felt like something was off, compared to lets say, the instant passion main characters have in the Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole. It didn’t stop me from enjoying my read, but I’m hoping the passion will feel more sincere in the following books.
Even though there is almost 400 pages to this book, the plot flew by at the speed of light. Every development felt natural and I appreciated how surprises unfolded. Showalter takes you on a ride and you don’t see anything coming, and just like a rollercoaster ride, it’s over too quickly.
The end surprised me in some way. I was expecting the “save the day” moment, but not in the form it took place (if that makes any sense?). The end is opened and leaves lots of room for speculation, so I’m glad I have the second book at hands reach, to cut short on the torture. Overall I loved the Lore, characters have a lot of potential and I am looking forward to reading the rest of the series!
The entire lore in this novel was a breath of fresh air in a literature full of vampires, werewolves and angels. Immortals sharing their bodies with demons, constantly fighting for control is rather interesting and opens up to so many possibilities. And Gods and Titans fighting for supreme power over the earth? Definitely unheard of. The first novel felt like an introduction to the entire Lore and I’m sure there is much more to discover in the following books, but it grabbed my attention that’s for sure.
The characters have a lot of potential, each Lord have their own curse, linked to their demon, personality, and strengths. One of the thing that bothered me a bit though, is that the two main characters fell for each other way too easily and even though the passion was described and worked perfectly at some points (see shower scene), it sometimes felt fake and superficial. I just felt like something was off, compared to lets say, the instant passion main characters have in the Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole. It didn’t stop me from enjoying my read, but I’m hoping the passion will feel more sincere in the following books.
Even though there is almost 400 pages to this book, the plot flew by at the speed of light. Every development felt natural and I appreciated how surprises unfolded. Showalter takes you on a ride and you don’t see anything coming, and just like a rollercoaster ride, it’s over too quickly.
The end surprised me in some way. I was expecting the “save the day” moment, but not in the form it took place (if that makes any sense?). The end is opened and leaves lots of room for speculation, so I’m glad I have the second book at hands reach, to cut short on the torture. Overall I loved the Lore, characters have a lot of potential and I am looking forward to reading the rest of the series!