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burningorion) wrote2016-02-22 02:26 am
burningorion) wrote2016-02-22 02:26 am
For Nini
Even though I'm disappointed in her right now, I still really love Sherrilyn Kenyon books. there's plenty of drama in them. Usually they're adult books (because of sexyteims) about the hero and heroine having to fight off some kind of evil as they fall for each other and struggle with how "wrong" they are for each other.
basically as long as you avoid Acheron and Styxx (they're major spoilers for what happens later in the series, despite them all being pretty much stand alone books that take place in the same universe) you're good. Well, that and those books are seriously fucked up in all the wrong ways that need content warnings on them. like rape, torture and sorta pedophilia.
the rest are good, though. I'd advise probably Dream-Hunter or Night Play over the rest. Definitely Retribution too.
Dream-Hunter is about this god of dreams that falls for a mortal woman and puts himself in her life so he can interact with her in the real world, rather than in her dreams. This guy can't feel his own feeling and that's how he fell for her, because in dreams he could feel things.
Night Play is about this wolf guy run out of his pack (along with his brother Fang) by assholes and left in the bayou of New Orleans for dead. Vain finds this woman he can't help but lust after and struggles against because how does he break it to her that shit's going Down in his life? On top of other things, might I add.
(Night Play is responsible for getting me into her stuff)
Retribution is about this guy turned into an immortal back in the old west named Jess Brady, who's being hunted by this woman that's initially not really nice because she thinks he killed her parents as a child. Then shit goes down and they have to work together against the big bad that literally wants to destroy the world and is specifically after Abby. All in the middle of them actually falling for each other. The characters in Retribution are way more entertaining than the content, though, even if it's pretty fascinating stuff. (Basically the Native American equivalent of the Apocalypse) Like Sasha basically stole the show just by being his spunky, jaded self. Or Zerek (Jess's bff) makes a cameo and he's no peach either. But mostly for Jess, who can go toe to toe in the verbal ass whipping department because he just has a good sense of humor.
Oh, and Z's book is "Dance with the Devil" and that's a pretty good book as well. Basically he's lead a shit life and was literally exiled to a remote part of Alaska and the plot is about one of the Olympian judge goddesses has to judge him for his crimes. She saves him from a storm, where she keeps him safe and cozy to get to know him and pretty much within the week they fall for each other. But they have to get over the fact that Zerek is really damaged goods and standoffish about it, and Astrid's been burnt before. She also takes her job seriously. Then something happens and all hell breaks loose and that's when it gets really interesting. A little warning about this one, though, is that Zerek was introduced in the previous book to his own and a little of his backstory is in there - it's not really that important, though. Basically Dionysus broke him out of his exile to help kill someone's girlfriend in New Orleans and he refused to when the going got tough, because she was nice to him. It's a rare thing in his life. And that's why Astrid is judging him instead of being outright killed.
And then there's Cassandra Clare. For as much as people talk shit about her, I will swear up, down, and sideways that her Infernal Devices books are beautiful pieces of work. It's a three book series about this woman named Tessa finding out she belongs to this shadow world. But basically after her aunt dies, her brother sends for her to live in London with him and it starts where she's getting off the boat. Problem is, the people he "sends" to get her are these two wicked woman that kidnapped her for a while and within the first couple chapters she's saved by Will Herondale and brought to the Institute to live with others who belong to this world. The entire series is about a person called the Magister trying to kidnap Tessa for his own reasons and her falling for two boys that are polar opposites of each other. Plus all the crazy crap the Magister puts them through, like clockwork creatures and a wild goose chase to figure out what the Magister wants with her. Then there's some world building stuff and some character exploration besides the main trio. Like with Charlotte, who's a woman head of the Institute in Victorian London, or Jessamine who wants nothing to do with any of it and the lengths she goes to in order to prove that. Or what's REALLY going on with Will. Plenty of drama, plenty of twists and turns - and Nini... this series made me cry. That's not an easy thing to do. I love it so much. SO MUCH. I've read these books a few times over the last couple years (about 3) and I rarely go back for a recreational reread.
One last thing to note is that all of these are paranormal types. They deal with vampires, demons, werewolves, etc. Kenyon twists things to suit her world in a pretty original way, but Clare uses the standard versions for hers.
basically as long as you avoid Acheron and Styxx (they're major spoilers for what happens later in the series, despite them all being pretty much stand alone books that take place in the same universe) you're good. Well, that and those books are seriously fucked up in all the wrong ways that need content warnings on them. like rape, torture and sorta pedophilia.
the rest are good, though. I'd advise probably Dream-Hunter or Night Play over the rest. Definitely Retribution too.
Dream-Hunter is about this god of dreams that falls for a mortal woman and puts himself in her life so he can interact with her in the real world, rather than in her dreams. This guy can't feel his own feeling and that's how he fell for her, because in dreams he could feel things.
Night Play is about this wolf guy run out of his pack (along with his brother Fang) by assholes and left in the bayou of New Orleans for dead. Vain finds this woman he can't help but lust after and struggles against because how does he break it to her that shit's going Down in his life? On top of other things, might I add.
(Night Play is responsible for getting me into her stuff)
Retribution is about this guy turned into an immortal back in the old west named Jess Brady, who's being hunted by this woman that's initially not really nice because she thinks he killed her parents as a child. Then shit goes down and they have to work together against the big bad that literally wants to destroy the world and is specifically after Abby. All in the middle of them actually falling for each other. The characters in Retribution are way more entertaining than the content, though, even if it's pretty fascinating stuff. (Basically the Native American equivalent of the Apocalypse) Like Sasha basically stole the show just by being his spunky, jaded self. Or Zerek (Jess's bff) makes a cameo and he's no peach either. But mostly for Jess, who can go toe to toe in the verbal ass whipping department because he just has a good sense of humor.
Oh, and Z's book is "Dance with the Devil" and that's a pretty good book as well. Basically he's lead a shit life and was literally exiled to a remote part of Alaska and the plot is about one of the Olympian judge goddesses has to judge him for his crimes. She saves him from a storm, where she keeps him safe and cozy to get to know him and pretty much within the week they fall for each other. But they have to get over the fact that Zerek is really damaged goods and standoffish about it, and Astrid's been burnt before. She also takes her job seriously. Then something happens and all hell breaks loose and that's when it gets really interesting. A little warning about this one, though, is that Zerek was introduced in the previous book to his own and a little of his backstory is in there - it's not really that important, though. Basically Dionysus broke him out of his exile to help kill someone's girlfriend in New Orleans and he refused to when the going got tough, because she was nice to him. It's a rare thing in his life. And that's why Astrid is judging him instead of being outright killed.
And then there's Cassandra Clare. For as much as people talk shit about her, I will swear up, down, and sideways that her Infernal Devices books are beautiful pieces of work. It's a three book series about this woman named Tessa finding out she belongs to this shadow world. But basically after her aunt dies, her brother sends for her to live in London with him and it starts where she's getting off the boat. Problem is, the people he "sends" to get her are these two wicked woman that kidnapped her for a while and within the first couple chapters she's saved by Will Herondale and brought to the Institute to live with others who belong to this world. The entire series is about a person called the Magister trying to kidnap Tessa for his own reasons and her falling for two boys that are polar opposites of each other. Plus all the crazy crap the Magister puts them through, like clockwork creatures and a wild goose chase to figure out what the Magister wants with her. Then there's some world building stuff and some character exploration besides the main trio. Like with Charlotte, who's a woman head of the Institute in Victorian London, or Jessamine who wants nothing to do with any of it and the lengths she goes to in order to prove that. Or what's REALLY going on with Will. Plenty of drama, plenty of twists and turns - and Nini... this series made me cry. That's not an easy thing to do. I love it so much. SO MUCH. I've read these books a few times over the last couple years (about 3) and I rarely go back for a recreational reread.
One last thing to note is that all of these are paranormal types. They deal with vampires, demons, werewolves, etc. Kenyon twists things to suit her world in a pretty original way, but Clare uses the standard versions for hers.