Acheron (Dark-Hunter, Book 12)

Acheron (Dark-Hunter, Book 12)
by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Acheron (Dark-Hunter, Book 12)
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Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-05
ISBN: 0312362153
Number of pages: 736
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Book Reviews of Acheron (Dark-Hunter, Book 12)

Book Review: Good but not great
Summary: 3 Stars

To tell the truth, I have the advantage of liking Sherrilyn Kenyon's books but not necessarily loving them, for a rave review, it would have to be a little bit higher literature.

My biggest problem with this is that at times Ash wasn't very bright, and he's always been the go-to fixit guy in these novels. Sherrilyn states in the beginning that Ash was an abuse victim/survivor (as was she) and she wanted to help people understand what made him what he was. (as for me, I don't define myself either way, it informs who I am but doesn't define me)But after a while it was a little excessive, almost to the point that it was abusive to the reader (and poor Ash), but what I never understood was why, after a certain point, he didn't run away. Why he kept walking into situations that almost set him up to be horribly abused.
For all the abuse, though, the risk factor in the rest of the novel was pretty low - if you're an immortal god, it's a little hard to worry.

I agree about the lack of love/sex scenes. If you're reading about paranormal romance, you need the romance. Ash should have been rocking in bed, he was a sex slave for heaven's sake!

Oh, and I'm so tired of the mimsy little virgins...the scene in the sex shop was gratuitous, stupid and insulting. You can't go to the movies and not see what it's all about - was that just to shoehorn the paid fans character entries in? I cringed during the whole scene. At her age she should have at least had a clue....

After a while I can certainly understand how an author of a series like this might be too...familiar...with her characters, how the pressure to come up with a blockbuster story for the publisher might add to that, and how the desire to explain or inform people about abuse might make it easy to get caught up in it....but it all has to avoid being gratuitous.

So, I liked it, didn't love it. If you're a huge fan ratchet down your expectations and you probably will to.

Summary of Acheron (Dark-Hunter, Book 12)

The most anticipated story in the blockbuster Dark-Hunter series. The never-before-revealed story of the Dark-Hunter leader, Acheron.? He was made human in order to escape death, but in death he was reborn a god. . .

?Eleven thousand years ago a god was born. Cursed into the body of a human, Acheron spent a lifetime of shame. However, his human death unleashed an unspeakable horror that almost destroyed the earth. Then, brought back against his will, Acheron became the sole defender of mankind.

Only it was never that simple. For centuries, he has fought for our survival and hidden a past he'll do anything to keep concealed. Until a lone woman who refuses to be intimidated by him threatens his very existence.

Now his survival, and ours, hinges on hers and old enemies reawaken and unite to kill them both.

War has never been more deadly... or more fun.

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