Thursday, June 24, 2010

The Darkest Passion

Gena Showalter writes novels like other people have snacks; frequently and effortlessly. Her latest in the Lords of the Underworld series is The Darkest Passion. It's brain candy. It is, but I love it.

Normally, this wouldn't be my cup of tea, but it's the epic alteration of mythology to morph into a contemporary fairytale that gets me in this series. Passion might be one of my favorites, but the one that really pulled me in, was Pleasure. Each of the lords are immortal warriors who once served the gods. Each has been giving a demon to carry, the ones they let out of Pandora's box. Each is being shown heavenly mercy, in the form of the perfect woman.

Yeah, well,  I said it was a fairytale. The latest lord to find his match is Aeron. As we suspected, Olivia is an angel fallen from Heaven, but the twist is a bit harsh. She falls because she won't kill the keeper of Wrath. For fans of the series, there are some very interesting turns in this one, but I'm no spoiler. Honestly, the whole series is a keeper.

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