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jazzrizz's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
chelsiemarie1218's review against another edition
5.0
Physical - such a beautiful story and much better than the other born book. Great love story with a super strong leading male. Cage fighting/military pilot.
romancejunkie1025's review against another edition
5.0
as always an amazing story, but i didn't really start to love it until i realized it was not in the same timeline as others in the series and was in fact set in the same time period as Born of Night so we got to see some interesting activities again from different perspectives which was AWESOME... cannot wait for the next book which will be Fain's story and i imagine will be highly emotionally charged. Kenyon as always KICKS ASS!
bookloverchelle's review against another edition
4.0
Another great, though long, read in The League series from Sherrilyn Kenyon. The timeline did change a little from the previous books so I did have some confusion when I first started but otherwise I felt that the main characters and secondary characters added to the overall storyline. Talyn has spent his life on the outskirts, never really excepted and always treated poorly even though he excels at everything he tries. Craving a soft touch Talyn purchases Felicia's contract, promising her wealth and freedom as long as she makes herself available to him. And what begins as a business transaction soon develops in to something so much more. But love between them is forbidden so they are forced to hide their growing love of face punishment. I really love the world Ms. Kenyon has created in this series and was very excited to see so many repeat characters. Can't wait to see where we go from this timeline jump!
jazzrizz's review against another edition
5.0
Talyn's history will break your heart. He has so much to deal with from the "sins" of his parents. What the eton Anatole cousins put him through because of their hatred for his parents is horrible.
Felicia has had her own issues with her parents, which puts her in Talyn's sights as a companion. The struggles and obstacles they have to go through is gut-wrenching. The amount of close calls Talyn has is nailbitting.
This was a wonderful book to set up for Fain's story.
Felicia has had her own issues with her parents, which puts her in Talyn's sights as a companion. The struggles and obstacles they have to go through is gut-wrenching. The amount of close calls Talyn has is nailbitting.
This was a wonderful book to set up for Fain's story.
jazzrizz's review against another edition
5.0
First off, it took me a bit to realize this was a first gen book. I totally get why SK took us back in time to set up [b: Born of Betrayal|23848002|Born of Betrayal (The League Nemesis Rising #8)|Sherrilyn Kenyon|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1426664309l/23848002._SX50_.jpg|41132851]. It was awesome to glimpse what was happening during Nyk's storyline play out during Talyn's story. We get much more of Jayne's background in this, along with appearances from Nero and Ryn.
Events from this book are going to be explosive in Fain's book ... and I can hardly wait to see it unfold.
While I wasn't sure I was going to like Felicia ... she definitely stepped up to become the female Tayln needed. I love the tiny, feisty heroines SK writes. They have to be pretty awesome to stand up to their very alpha males :)
Bring on Fain's book!!
Events from this book are going to be explosive in Fain's book ... and I can hardly wait to see it unfold.
While I wasn't sure I was going to like Felicia ... she definitely stepped up to become the female Tayln needed. I love the tiny, feisty heroines SK writes. They have to be pretty awesome to stand up to their very alpha males :)
Bring on Fain's book!!
toastymaloney's review against another edition
4.0
It didn't disappoint. I was surprised by the timing, though. I liked it.
dragon_lion64's review against another edition
5.0
Born of Defiance
Everyone knows that Sherrilyn Kenyon is my FAVORITE author of all time and I read everything she writes. I’m a huge fan but probably not as gung-ho as some of her other fans. Her Facebook page always has people dressing up as her characters (mainly Simi from the Dark Hunter series) and even getting tattoos…Now that is some sincere idol worship. I’m too fat to dress up as Simi and too poor to get a tattoo but I have drawn a few of the characters before. Maybe I’ll share them one day when I find them in my overstuffed garage.
This book is the 7th book in ‘The League’ series. Well, it is the 8th according to Goodreads but the 7th according to Amazon and the 9th according to Sherrilyn Kenyon's website. Since there are two timelines in the League Series which Sherrilyn describes and Gen 1 and Gen 2, the reading order could vary.
There is some complicated things going on in this book. It’s been just under a year since I’ve read the previous book in the series so I had to remember who some of the characters were and try to figure out when this book happened in the timeline of the story. Sherrilyn has built up a complex world here with many planets, humanoid species and governments. To govern it all, The League was formed when a tyrant tried to rule the solar system. The League became full of corruption though and became a tyrant in itself. It has trained assassins who work with various governments across the planets who go out and kill anyone who opposes them. Because of the corruption, a new alliance was formed to fight against the injustices of The League called the Sentella made up of various species and classes of people, most hide their identities and keep up their own lives outside of the Sentella.
The last book in this series was about Dancer Hauk, an Andarian. It went into the culture, society and politics of the Andarian race which is pretty messed up, mostly because of their corrupt royal family and their twisted rules and beliefs.
This book is about Talyn Batur. Talyn was born a bastard whose father is an outcast and like most societies, bastards get treated poorly but his father was from one of the greatest bloodlines of his people and if just one of his paternal family members would have stepped forward and claimed him, he would have high up in society. His mother is of a great bloodline, the Winged Blood Clan Batur, but that doesn’t help him much. Talyn has suffered the ridicule and rules of his people all of his life. He had to attend school with another race of people who hated Andarians. He entered the military but because of his low birth, the only way he could advance was to agree to fight in the public arena. He is the champion of that sport now but it doesn’t do him much good now that he has a new commanding officer who hates him. His C.O., Chrisen Anatole, is the great nephew of the queen and enjoys messing with Talyn and making his life hell.
It is illegal for Talyn to ever marry or have children. Most whore houses won’t even allow Talyn to enter because of his low status. Every relationship in Andaria requires a contract whether it be a couple living together or a marriage so when Talyn sees an ad with a beautiful woman on it for a companion agency, he contacts the agency for a contract with her.
Felicia is also a bastard but her father claimed her and she was born while her mother and father were in a legal contract. Her father is an advisor to the queen and has a high standing in society. He was married but contracted with Felicia’s mother as a legal companion. Felicia wants to be a physician and has decided to follow in her mother’s footsteps to become a companion in order to pay for her schooling and since there isn’t many other options open for a person of her caste.
She jumps at the chance to contract with Talyn because her agency is trying to force her to accept another contract with a male who, when interviewing her, treated her awful and refused most of her requests that she was asking for in her contract. Most males seeking a companion are either older married men or men with cruel steaks who can’t get anyone else. Talyn accepted all of her requests and was super nice, not to mention hot.
Talyn and Felicia have an immediate attraction and start to fall for one another but his C.O. starts making trouble for them. His C.O. already hates him. What Talyn doesn’t know is why. Chrisen knows who Talyn’s father is and knows that by right, if anyone from the great family of the War Hauks had claimed him, Talyn would be higher up on the food chain of society than he is and he is threatened by that. He messes with Talyn’s check-in times which makes Talyn late. Whenever he is late, he gets beaten and it goes on his record. He’s making Talyn look like a disciplinary nightmare. Talyn learns that Chrisen is abusing the females at the base. When Talyn sticks up for them, the females, who up until that moment had always sneered and looked down on him, all salute him and one of them even backs him up on a battle against an enemy but it pisses Chrisen off so bad that he shoots Talyn’s ship out of the air. Talyn ends up in the hospital. Everyone knows what happened but no one can do anything about it.
Now, Chrisen is trying to buy out Felicia’s contract with her agency. If he gets ahold of Felicia he will surely kill her or maim her. Chrisen also has had Talyn arrested and deported him to a planet that is practically uninhabitable. Some of the animals and humanoid species who live there are deformed from all the chemical warfare. Chrisen, his brother and the crown prince had Talyn’s legs broken and dropped him off on the planet to die.
I finished this book in a day because I just couldn’t put it down. It sounds so cliché to say, “I couldn’t put it down.” But it the truth.
The next book is about Fain, Talyn’s father, who we have seen in other books but don’t know a lot about him except that he is an outcast from Andarian society. He has always fought for the good guys and he just didn’t seem like the kind of man who would leave his son but that is what he did according to this book. Sherrilyn Kenyon is a master of making tortured heroes and making someone seem bad from another character’s viewpoint and then when their story is written, they are actually a hero….just look at Acheron and Styxx in the Dark Hunter series.
Anyway, I’m super excited for the next book, Born of Betrayal, which comes out in November.
Everyone knows that Sherrilyn Kenyon is my FAVORITE author of all time and I read everything she writes. I’m a huge fan but probably not as gung-ho as some of her other fans. Her Facebook page always has people dressing up as her characters (mainly Simi from the Dark Hunter series) and even getting tattoos…Now that is some sincere idol worship. I’m too fat to dress up as Simi and too poor to get a tattoo but I have drawn a few of the characters before. Maybe I’ll share them one day when I find them in my overstuffed garage.
This book is the 7th book in ‘The League’ series. Well, it is the 8th according to Goodreads but the 7th according to Amazon and the 9th according to Sherrilyn Kenyon's website. Since there are two timelines in the League Series which Sherrilyn describes and Gen 1 and Gen 2, the reading order could vary.
There is some complicated things going on in this book. It’s been just under a year since I’ve read the previous book in the series so I had to remember who some of the characters were and try to figure out when this book happened in the timeline of the story. Sherrilyn has built up a complex world here with many planets, humanoid species and governments. To govern it all, The League was formed when a tyrant tried to rule the solar system. The League became full of corruption though and became a tyrant in itself. It has trained assassins who work with various governments across the planets who go out and kill anyone who opposes them. Because of the corruption, a new alliance was formed to fight against the injustices of The League called the Sentella made up of various species and classes of people, most hide their identities and keep up their own lives outside of the Sentella.
The last book in this series was about Dancer Hauk, an Andarian. It went into the culture, society and politics of the Andarian race which is pretty messed up, mostly because of their corrupt royal family and their twisted rules and beliefs.
This book is about Talyn Batur. Talyn was born a bastard whose father is an outcast and like most societies, bastards get treated poorly but his father was from one of the greatest bloodlines of his people and if just one of his paternal family members would have stepped forward and claimed him, he would have high up in society. His mother is of a great bloodline, the Winged Blood Clan Batur, but that doesn’t help him much. Talyn has suffered the ridicule and rules of his people all of his life. He had to attend school with another race of people who hated Andarians. He entered the military but because of his low birth, the only way he could advance was to agree to fight in the public arena. He is the champion of that sport now but it doesn’t do him much good now that he has a new commanding officer who hates him. His C.O., Chrisen Anatole, is the great nephew of the queen and enjoys messing with Talyn and making his life hell.
It is illegal for Talyn to ever marry or have children. Most whore houses won’t even allow Talyn to enter because of his low status. Every relationship in Andaria requires a contract whether it be a couple living together or a marriage so when Talyn sees an ad with a beautiful woman on it for a companion agency, he contacts the agency for a contract with her.
Felicia is also a bastard but her father claimed her and she was born while her mother and father were in a legal contract. Her father is an advisor to the queen and has a high standing in society. He was married but contracted with Felicia’s mother as a legal companion. Felicia wants to be a physician and has decided to follow in her mother’s footsteps to become a companion in order to pay for her schooling and since there isn’t many other options open for a person of her caste.
She jumps at the chance to contract with Talyn because her agency is trying to force her to accept another contract with a male who, when interviewing her, treated her awful and refused most of her requests that she was asking for in her contract. Most males seeking a companion are either older married men or men with cruel steaks who can’t get anyone else. Talyn accepted all of her requests and was super nice, not to mention hot.
Talyn and Felicia have an immediate attraction and start to fall for one another but his C.O. starts making trouble for them. His C.O. already hates him. What Talyn doesn’t know is why. Chrisen knows who Talyn’s father is and knows that by right, if anyone from the great family of the War Hauks had claimed him, Talyn would be higher up on the food chain of society than he is and he is threatened by that. He messes with Talyn’s check-in times which makes Talyn late. Whenever he is late, he gets beaten and it goes on his record. He’s making Talyn look like a disciplinary nightmare. Talyn learns that Chrisen is abusing the females at the base. When Talyn sticks up for them, the females, who up until that moment had always sneered and looked down on him, all salute him and one of them even backs him up on a battle against an enemy but it pisses Chrisen off so bad that he shoots Talyn’s ship out of the air. Talyn ends up in the hospital. Everyone knows what happened but no one can do anything about it.
Now, Chrisen is trying to buy out Felicia’s contract with her agency. If he gets ahold of Felicia he will surely kill her or maim her. Chrisen also has had Talyn arrested and deported him to a planet that is practically uninhabitable. Some of the animals and humanoid species who live there are deformed from all the chemical warfare. Chrisen, his brother and the crown prince had Talyn’s legs broken and dropped him off on the planet to die.
I finished this book in a day because I just couldn’t put it down. It sounds so cliché to say, “I couldn’t put it down.” But it the truth.
The next book is about Fain, Talyn’s father, who we have seen in other books but don’t know a lot about him except that he is an outcast from Andarian society. He has always fought for the good guys and he just didn’t seem like the kind of man who would leave his son but that is what he did according to this book. Sherrilyn Kenyon is a master of making tortured heroes and making someone seem bad from another character’s viewpoint and then when their story is written, they are actually a hero….just look at Acheron and Styxx in the Dark Hunter series.
Anyway, I’m super excited for the next book, Born of Betrayal, which comes out in November.
whitney0498's review against another edition
5.0
I have been provided with a review copy of Born of Defiance from the publisher St. Martin’s Press for an impartial review. This book just made me want to cry with everything that was going on throughout it. I absolutely fell in love with Talyn Batur and Felicia and getting to see their journey through this tough world was truly amazing. Born of Defiance is the ninth book in The League: Nemesis rising series and it is very interesting that instead of picking up around the same time that the eighth book in The League series Born of Fury ended it goes back in time to where the series started and takes place at the same time as Born of Night. It was really interesting to see because there were certain details that would take you back to Born of Night and things would just become so much clearer. I’m absolutely loving this series and I can’t wait to read the next one.