Saturday 23 June 2012

REVIEW, Dance with the Devil


One step into the Dark-Hunter® world and you’ll never turn back....

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Dance with the Devil
Series: Dark-Hunter series, book 3
Pub: 2003, Piatkus (imprint of Little, brown Book Group)
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon   
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (small); 343pp w/ 17 chapters
Whose: Zarek & Astrid
Age Range: adult

                Synopsis
Zarek in the most dangerous of all the Dark-Hunters. He endured a lifetime as a Roman slave and centuries as a Dark-Hunter in exile. Zarek trusts no one. Because of his steadfast refusal to follow any orders, he is kept in isolation in Alaska where his activity is seriously limited and closely monitored. There are many who fear he will one day unleash his powers against humans as well as vampires, and that nine hundred years of exile have made him too vicious to be redeemed.
    
The gods want Zarek dead but reluctantly agree to allow justice goddess Astrid to judge him first. Astrid has never judged a man innocent, yet there is something about Zarek that tugs at her heart. He views even the smallest act of kindness with shock and suspicion. But while Astrid struggles to maintain her impartiality in the face of her growing attraction to Zarek, and executioner has already been dispatched...

Memoirs of this Delusional Writer #2.8.3: Hiatus


Starting paragraph
If life’s a box of chocolates that would make 98% of them poisoned in one way or another, leaving only one you truly want. How the hell are you meant to pick when everything looks the fucking same!?!
Magically Dead, book 2, Soul Stealer series, starting line