I’ve just finished Devil May Cry!!! It took me forever because I’m in the middle of Wrimo. (As may be obvious by some of my entries.) But I got through it, happily even.
Oh what to say about this one?
In many ways it was very, very good. In others, not so much.
The over all story is great. We meet Sin learn about his past with Artemis and why he’s such the anti-social bitchy dude. He’s certainly doesn’t come across like the fuzzy wuzzy type. But we all know many of our Dark-Hunters are misunderstood, assumptions are made about them regardless of reality, and if by chance those assumptions are remotely true, there is a gods-damned good reason for it.
We find much the same here.
It’s hard to tell you too much about what happens in this book, though. Some of it is obvious like Kat’s heritage for instance. You knew, kind of. It was never said out right, but come on!!!!!! There were truck sized hints and a little part of you has been saying, yeah I think she’s…
Well, you’re right and for those of you who were too caught up in the sights of sounds of all the delectables, Kenyon spells it out for you, point blank.
And we are so totally revving up for Acheron! Devil May Cry is a great lead in to it. Unfortunately, if you’re going to read things in exact sequence, we have two Dream-Hunter novels to go before we slip back onto the Dark-Hunter track. If you skip the Skoti crowd though, you can march to the bookshelf or your closest shop and pick up Acheron.
Oh, you might want some kind of plot description. Okay, here goes:
The end of the world is coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You’re not really surprised and maybe even thinking you’d like some tea and biscuits with that, I agree, but get it iced because this book is rockin’.
Sin our Dark-Hunter du’jours is on the table. He’s hot. His angry. He’s an outsider. He wants Artie dead and I mean Artie in the Artemis sense. Artie is thinkin’ it’s going down this time because Sin has been causing trouble and has obtained a device to help him do it. So Artemis sends her fave koris member Kat to stomp Sin out since Ash will not do it.
Ash always has good reasons for not tossing folks into the tomb. Is Kat able to figure out why?
Oh boogers, you gotta know and I think it’s okay to tell you that yes she does. Too bad knowing that doesn’t make it easy. The crapper is truly on overload this time and we need more than a Home Despot Golden Plunger to save the day.
We need and army and now!!!!!
Too bad that’s too tall an order for the time frame.
Wow is that enough info? No, not really but this book is so jammed pack full of goodies that I’m having a hard time plating them for you. Let me say this.
READ THE DAMN BOOK!!!!!!!!
It’s fun. It’s sexy. It’s intelligent. You meet some really great characters like Daimon casino managers and sarcastic immortal humans . Simi’s in this one too, BBQ sauce and all. But there’s more than just Diamonique sparkling here.
You get some hardcore goods on Ash. We all want it and we get to see it. Truly we are ramping up for the big guy’s own story. All that said why is this book not as good as some of the others? It’s truly hard to eff this one up and really, Kenyon didn’t. But…
There’s too much fantastical and a lot of info to suck down in 358 pages. There are moments of depth that just don’t go deep enough and this installment lacked the tear ripping it should have had. For all intents and purposes, I should have been balling at least once.
I didn’t, but maybe you will. Maybe you’ll connect with that something that is Sin and you’ll find yourself longing for his redemption. Me? I had no doubt about it. I had way too much confidence in him, romance formulas aside.
But the worst part of the book is the ending. Normally, the end of a Kenyon book sucks just because the ride is over. This one wasn’t as great because she revved the energy so fucking high that when we got to the conclusion, it drooped. Basically, we got teased too long and the wad was shot before we could blink.
I’m okay with that though because she drove it in hard enough that the rest of it is fine and well worth the read. You’ll get your tingle and you’ll still be hungry for more.
What’s up next?
Once Upon a Midnight Clear followed by the Dream Chaser. These are two Dream-Hunter novels and in truth many don’t like these as much as the Dark-Hunter series. I’ve been thinking of hopping the line and going straight for Acheron, but you know I think he can wait for me to get my grubby little hands on him. I’m going to draw it out, get some Skoti time in and wait for the Fate God. Besides, I don’t let others form my opinions for me. You shouldn’t either. Read ‘em then tell me if you thought they sucked. I’ll certainly be telling you what I think.
Until then read hard and remember just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
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