Customer Reviews

Born of Night

5 star:		(52)
4 star:		(24)
3 star:		(11)
2 star:		(10)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I was so thrilled to be able to get ahold of this book. I have enjoyed every book that Sherrily has written. I have been lucky enough to have met her in cyber-space and found that she is a wonderfully nice person with a great sense of humor. I hope to meet her in person some day. Until then I will have to read all of her books again and again.

Now this book is tied in with her book Paradise City. Both are sci-fi romances that pack a lot of action and heat. The hero of this book, Nemesis, is a dark, fearsome warrior who has a fierce reputation as a mercenary. He also has a secret. He has admired and dreamed about the heroine for years. Princess Kiara is a wonderful dancer who soon finds herself in very close quarters with Nemesis. He is protecting her from her father's enemies but at a high cost, his heart. The two are trying to fight their growing attraction for each other but failing. The passions soon ignite and the fireworks are fantastic.

I loved the supporting characters. They added humor and really tied the whole book together.

I hope that there maybe more in this series. Hint, Hint! If you can get this book and Paradise City as well.

I've read this hard to put down book twice. Full of suspense, adventure and romance it keeps the reader eager to find the outcome. The hero is belivable and his character is wonderfully constructed. The conflict of his watrring emotions and the situation itself makes for a great read. I look forward to more romances involving the remaining cast of characters in the story.

"They call him Nemesis. Once a renegade assassin, now a warrior-soldier sworn to protect the innocent from the ruthless mercenaries throughout the galaxies."

This implies quite the hero, and Nykyrian lives up to this promise of a troubled hero who thinks he needs to love from afar. He has always admired Kiara when she danced. Now his feelings lead him to accept the job to keep her alive. Kiara is intrigued, intimidated and confused by Nykyrian. She knows she can trust him with her life and to keep her safe, but can she trust him with her heart? She realizes that he does love her but cannot say it.

Kiara has a death contract on her because her father, Predident of the Gourish Consolate, Commander Tiarun Biardi, refused to be intimidated by Probekin threats. Against his better judgement, he hires Nykyrian but when it looks like Nykyrian has harmed his daughter, Commander Tiarum puts a contract on Nykyrian. Not the best move, since Kiara has married Nykyrian and danger to him is danger to her. Just being married to Nykyrian put her in danger, because he has many enemies. One who captures her and Nykyrian goes to save her knowing it will cost him his life...

This is a fast paced adventure with many emotional scenes that make the book hard to put down. The HEA ending is a must for my enjoyment of a book... and I did enjoy this one.

Usually books of this type focus on the heroine and the hero is not as defined. Not true with this book. Even the secondary characters were interesting. I very much enjoyed this and it's sequel "Fire and Ice". I keep hoping the author will write a third to bring closure.

This is the first installment in "The league Series."

Tis series is the the first the author wrote and the books are very hard to find, but worth the effort.

They are:

1. Born of the Night.

2. Born of Fire. (e-book)

3. Paradise City.

4. Fire and Ice. (reprint in "Man of my dreams.")

I really hope these will be reprinted, so we can all get a copy, because i like the ones i have, especially Born of the night. This author is good, and her books prove it.

I read Born of the Night the same day i got it, and did not put it down before it ended.

When I purchased this book from iPublish.com in 2001 I had never heard of Sherrilyn Kenyon. But after only taking 2 and a half hours to read Born of the Night, I don't see how I could have missed her. Her novels are alive with characters that we want to, no need to care about. I have looked for this book other places since I have purchased my own but I see that it is very expensive. If you look on Ebay, sometimes someone has one there for a very reasonable price. But I can see why many readers don't want to be rid of this book. If you can find a copy get it, you will not be disappointed.

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This book did not start off well for me. The author has a really bad habit of over describing everything. Every reference to something was like it was the first time. We had to hear the exact description all over again. Also, I really, really hate when an author has a character think something then immediately qualifies it. Like: he didn't have time to humor her, but he ached so badly inside with the need to comfort her. That was my own example, but crap like that happened constantly. Also, Nykyrian and Kiara did nothing but run around aching. Every time I turned a page Kiara was aching to kiss him again (while she hated him). It was ridiculous.

Let's talk about Kiara. I disliked her for the first 100 pages and absolutely hated her for the next 200. I'm serious, I have never before loathed a character I was reading about. If I could have reached through the book to take her out of my misery I would have. She was such a rhymes-with-witch. Nykyrian and his crew get hired to protect her from the multitude of assassins after her. How does she respond to this? She whines. Oh no, don't put better security on my home. I liked it how it was! Take your stupid blast shields and leave me here to die. She was like that about everything.

People constantly referred to her by her status, Princess. That's exactly what she was. A spoiled, snotty, self absorbed princess. When Syn finally saw her true attitude and blasted her for it I just wanted to give him a big smooch at how someone finally gave her the smack down and introduced her to reality. Unfortunately, she was too dumb and self absorbed to be moved by anything he said. They're animals because they're not upset when they kill the people who are trying to kill her. I mean seriously, what kind of idiot is this girl? These people want to rape and kill you! They've captured you more than once. But you're mad because Nykyrian killed them and saved you from them? She was so disgusted by him she threw up later. I have to stop talking about her, I'm getting mad all over again.

Nykyrian was a typical hero by this author. He's huge and a bad ass and has a tortured childhood. If you've read a book by her you'll recognize him. I didn't really mind that part, but I did mind his relationship with Kiara. The situation reminded me of a stray dog who has been beaten often. He's frightening and apt to attack first rather than let anyone get close. But still that dog longs for someone to pet him. So, he meets this human. The human is mean to him too. But one day the human decides to take pity on him and feed him and love him. This dog is eventually so grateful that he gives her all his love and devotion and totally ignores any time she's mean to him. That's exactly how their relationship was. To my eyes anyone would have done. He caved at the first hint of basic human kindness. It was sad, not sexy.

By the way, when Kiara's so called "turning" point came about she was watching private movies of his childhood. No explanation was ever given for why any of these things were ever recorded and how he got a hold of them. These were not regular movies. They were recordings of him being beaten at home, at school, and one of his first meeting with Syn out on the street where no one else was. So, where did these movies come from? It makes no sense and was rather weak. So, seeing these movies "changes" Kiara. He's pissed at her (rightfully so) for watching his movies, but two seconds later they're making out. Their sex life takes off from there.

After that point in the book it's like we're reading about a whole new character. She's still irritating, but now she's sickly sweet too. I seriously wouldn't have been surprised if she had grabbed his cheeks and rubbed noses with him while calling him snookums. Blech. So they continue their relationship until the big misunderstanding. The end comes pretty quickly after that with a pretty lame reveal about Nykyrian's past. Thank God that came along out of nowhere to help you have a future with Kiara.

The last 200ish pages were 3 stars for me, just average. I didn't hate it, but I didn't like it either. The first 300ish pages were a 1 star for me. Kiara made me loathe them. So I averaged it out to a 2 star.

For those that are fans of Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter novels, you will find quite a few familiar themes within this book. You have the troubled rogue male character with a soul in dire need of love and the lead female character in need of a quick rescue (not to mention a reference to vampires and a guy with creepy eyes that always wears sunglasses). The formula works for the DH novels - we all know that! It turns out that based on the information in the forward, these novels were created before the DH series and have been updated and republished.

So, if you are a DH fan and don't mind seeing the similarities, then buy the book. It's a heck of a lot better and cheaper than buying Bad Moon Rising. Take it with a grain of salt and just enjoy it as a fan of Kenyon.

If you have never read any of the Dark Hunter series or Kenyon and like paranormal romance, I would still recommend it. Keep in mind that it is more sci-fi (the setting is outer space) than romance but still turns out to be a good, quick read.

I think this book proves my theory that SK's books written in the past have much more depth and character interaction than her newer books do. This story seems like it should have been the book Acheron had. I was much longer than Acheron and had much more feeling and it stayed true to the character. I wish SK could reach back and write books like this again. I loved Kiara (even though she was annoyingly naive at times) and felt horrible for Nykyrian. This was a real romance book and if she could put that back into her Dark Hunter series I would be overjoyed.

I have to say that I LOVED it! This was the type of writing from Ms Kenyon that made me a fan in the beginning! Lately, most of her books have been fair to making me wonder why bother-I am glad I tried again! The characters have depth and I cared what happened to Kiara and NyKyrian. Also, there wasn't any of the phrases that her more recent novels are overrun with. I look forward with relish for her next League novel with Syn!!