Customer Reviews

Unbreakable (Shadow Destroyers Book One)

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I give it five stars.

Unbreakable by Sydney Somers is a fantastic action filled story, in the tradition of Buffy The Vampire Slayer that I found almost impossible to put down. The chemistry between the main characters as well as the secondary ones is outstanding.
When the story first starts Jordan and her partner / lover Gage are brutally attacked by a war demon and in the process the fatally injured Gage ends up dying in her arms.
Fast forward five years into the future, Jordan is still a cop by day but by night she's an a** kicking demon slayer with an attitude! So imagine her anger and hurt when she discovers that Gage didn't really die that night. Instead he's stayed away for the last five years in a misguided attempt to protect her from the shadow demons that she hunts and slays every night.

This book is definitely a keeper. If you love stories about demons, heroes, hot sex and a great love that won't be denied then you are sure to love Unbreakable.

I just couldn't finish this book, even though it was free on the Kindle. The heroine is supposed to be this kick-ass woman, and yet lets the hero physically bully her around without getting, or staying, mad. And even when mad, he can kick off her sex-drive so quickly and completely that it doesn't matter where she is, he can just "take" her. Forget that he's hurt her so badly and doesn't even give her much of a good reason.

Guess I've come to expect better of both leads because other writers let a strong woman be strong without having to create a barbarian to overpower her strength. They let the woman have a strong male partner instead of handler/master. This kind of relationship is just so old and not worthy of the this genre.

This is an excellent read. The book shifts from action to passion and keeps moving. I couldn't put it down. Well worth the time spent reading. I really look forward to reading more from this author.

I refrain from giving this a 1 star because it's a book I might not have bought at full price, and so I feel it an injustice to the author to be too judgmental. Putting a book as a freebie draws in those with no interest in the genre.

All that said, the demon tale is one I would choose to read from a favorite author, as I am a fan of horror and supernatural fiction, so I reserve the right to be a tad critical. The set up of the story (the pre-prologue, if you like) was great. It tells the history of the demons, how they came to be. It was well written, interesting & gave me hope that it would be a great book. As another reviewer stated though, the actual prologue was rather cliche-ridden with Gage and his "lethal charm" and Jordan resisting at every turn until she melted into his kisses. But I pushed on....

As we know from the pre-prologue, Shadow Demons roam the earth. They are evil, they feed on emotion. Jordan, our heroine, is a vigilante destroyer: cop by day, demon slayer by night, after she witnessed the brutal murder of her partner and lover at the sword of a Shadow Demon.

The storyline itself isn't bad, but it does lack development of the characters. Other than Jordan being stubborn and feisty, there's not much else that we learn about her. The twist in the tale isn't shocking - not because I expected it (I didn't at all) but because we didn't get to know enough about any of the other characters to really care, and so when the twist was revealed, it gave me more of a "oh" reaction than a "WOW! I never would have guessed" shocker.

My title calls this repetitive, and it does become so. The same fight scenes replay, but worse - the same sex scene is basically repeated over and over. I think even those readers who love a racy sex scene would be disappointed. By the 3rd replay, I skipped them altogether. Nothing new here.

I got this one free on kindle. It was very well written and I plan to buy more books in this series.

Good Sci-Fi writing, I found the characters compling. Don't think too deep, just enjoy it. I couldn't put it down. I will be looking for more of this author's works,

The only reason I read this book was because it came free on my kindle... hard to pass up free sometimes.

The book had potential. As far as fantasy and battles and stuff like that, it could have been great. There were WAY too many love scenes. I'm all for romance and drama... but only if its tastefully done. The author seemed to be trying to push a quota of love scenes or something. It broke up the intensity of any drama in the storyline. One moment they're battling creatures and the next they are all over each other and I kept thinking "wait a second, are the creatures dead then?"

So, if you read this book, take it in the sense that its more like a fantasy smut romance book than a real intense fantasy book. If you read it for what it is, than its great. But don't expect to get much more out of it.

when i bought the book i thought the premise of demon fighting sounded very interesting but i was not expecting it to be a soap opera which is what it was. it took me several weeks to battle my way through it as i kept reading other more interesting books. one thing to keep in mind is that expectations are important, and had i expected a soap opera, softporn, demon fighting book with lots of goofy sex scenes that could only happen in fantasy not reality i might have rated it another star higher.

Old premise, one dimensional characters, and lengthy boring sex scenes. I found nothing to like in this novel. I sped read through most of it because it took three pages to say they made out, but less than three sentences to describe the characters you were suppose to get interested in. For the most part just words on a page with little meaning. Boring...

Lots of action, lots of sex but not much else. The charcters lack depth. I had a hard time finishing the story. Sure glad it was free!