A review by toystory242
Night Embrace, by Sherrilyn Kenyon
3.0
So I finally finished this audiobook! It took me a long time, but I'm happy I persevered. I really liked this story, and I really enjoyed Sunshine and Talon. All of Sherrilyn's characters are so funny and (almost all) are very likable. My favorite character in this book, ironically, was Zarek, even though he wasn't even the main player. But I am SOOO excited for his book. Like #blessed let's go.
Now I do have some problems with this that I'm going to address below, with some spoilers:
First of all, there were, for me, way too much *ahem* ROMANCE in this book. There was so much of Talon and Sunshine on top of each other that I was getting so tired of listening to it and wished I was reading the book so I could skim it. The possessive language in this book was also just as bad as Night Pleasure--I thought it was better with Fantasy Lover (gotta love these titles am I right), but here I found myself wincing a bit. There was an especially awful scene when Talon and Sunshine have sex after Sunshine has been drugged to lust after anyone close to her, and Talon is even like "lol we should wait until this wears off probs" and then he's like "FUCKIT" and I was like "haFUCKU" This surprised me greatly, because all the books by Sherrilyn that I have read so far have giant, HEALTHY morals (besides the language bit...ugh). In Fantasy Lover, the whole thing with Grace is that she doesn't want to be used--she wants a healthy relationship with someone who respects her. So WTF was that??? It was a mar in a book that I otherwise probably would have liked more than the other two in the series so far, and it made me rate it lower than those other two.
*sighs* I'm still looking forward to Zarek's book though. I love that dude
Now I do have some problems with this that I'm going to address below, with some spoilers:
First of all, there were, for me, way too much *ahem* ROMANCE in this book. There was so much of Talon and Sunshine on top of each other that I was getting so tired of listening to it and wished I was reading the book so I could skim it. The possessive language in this book was also just as bad as Night Pleasure--I thought it was better with Fantasy Lover (gotta love these titles am I right), but here I found myself wincing a bit. There was an especially awful scene when Talon and Sunshine have sex after Sunshine has been drugged to lust after anyone close to her, and Talon is even like "lol we should wait until this wears off probs" and then he's like "FUCKIT" and I was like "haFUCKU" This surprised me greatly, because all the books by Sherrilyn that I have read so far have giant, HEALTHY morals (besides the language bit...ugh). In Fantasy Lover, the whole thing with Grace is that she doesn't want to be used--she wants a healthy relationship with someone who respects her. So WTF was that??? It was a mar in a book that I otherwise probably would have liked more than the other two in the series so far, and it made me rate it lower than those other two.
*sighs* I'm still looking forward to Zarek's book though. I love that dude