Dream Warrior (Dream-Hunter Novels) (Mass Market Paperback)

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PRAISE FOR SHERRILYN KENYON

"Kenyon is the reigning queen of the vampire novel."--Barbara Vey, Publishers Weekly

“An engaging read.”—Entertainment Weekly on Devil May Cry

“Kenyon’s writing is brisk, ironic, sexy, and relentlessly imaginative. These are not your mother’s vampire novels.”—The Boston Globe on Dark Side of the Moon

 

Product Description

The son of Warcraft and Hate, Cratus spent eternity battling for the ancient gods who birthed him. He was death to any who crossed him. Until the day he laid down his arms and walked into self-imposed exile. Now an ancient enemy has been unleashed and our dreams are his chosen battlefield. The only hope we have is the one god who swears he will never fight again.

As a Dream-Hunter, Delphine has spent eternity protecting mankind from the predators who prey on our unconscious state. But now that her allies have been turned, she knows in order to survive, the Dream-Hunters need a new leader. Someone who can train them to fight their new enemies. Cratus is her only hope. But she is a bitter reminder of why he chose to lay down his arms.

Time is running out and if she can't win him to her cause, mankind will be slaughtered and the world we know will soon cease to exist.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks (February 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312938837
• ISBN-13: 978-0312938833
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #11,379 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This is item 18 in The Dark-Hunter Series.

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26 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Wait...where is the romance?, February 4, 2009

By	Nadine S (Washington DC,) - See all my reviews

First off I want to say that I didn't hate the book completely. Otherwise, I would have only given it a single star. The only thing that really saved it were a few characters from previous DH books like Ash and Zarek. However, having said that...here are my issues with this book.

1) It seems extremely hard to believe that Cratus, who has been tortured again and again for such a long time, can suddenly forget everything he has gone through and fall in love with Delphine so quickly. I know this is a fictional novel but this is stretching it a bit.

2) Secondly, I still don't understand why some of these characters were not introduced in the past. It would have been much easier than just putting them all in this book and making it seem like they were meant to be there all along. If they are as powerful as they are said to be, then why haven't we heard of them before.

3) I know this book is meant to start phase 2 of the series but, as another reviewer has already said, some of these new characters look like cookie cutter versions of past Dark Hunters and villains we already know. The only difference is that they have new "greater" and more "impressive" powers.

I honestly think with all the new characters that were added to this book and with everything else going on there was little romance to be found. Cratus and Delphine were only alone for a hand full of scenes and the rest of the book they were trying to kill things or not be killed. How does that constitute as a relationship?

Yes, this is supposed to be a turning point in the series but at this point I couldn't care less about what new character has daddy issues or not. Frankly, I could not keep them apart even if I wanted to.

If SK had made this into a longer book with well defined charaters I would have been happy to buy it even if it cost more and I had to wait longer for it. In the future, I'm going to be borrowing from friends or from the library because I think these books aren't going to get any better any time soon.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A steaming pile of fetid....compost!, April 23, 2009

By	Michelle Braatz "Busy Mom-of-Many" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I haven't picked up A Sherrilyn Kenyon book in a while, but I am familiar with this series...and I remember now why I quit reading them! This book is an extreme example of what was going wrong with the series: too many characters, to many myth systems being combined, all romance a forgone conclusion, and bad-a@@ men being turned into puddles of emoting pudding by their spunky true love. There are so many new characters in "Dream Warrior" that at one point I was tempted to get out a piece of paper and map them all out to figure out who was doing what to whom, and for how many cookies... The main character gets past 2000 years of abuse and cruelty toward him in the blink of an eye; the powers each character have just get more and more over-the-top; the killing never stops, and the romance hardly starts....

35 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It was better than the last one, but that isn't saying much., February 3, 2009

By	J. Kollasch (Vadnais Heights, MN) - See all my reviews

Well I promised myself I wouldn't buy another crappy book from Sherrylyn Kenyon, but I guess absence has made the heart go stupid because I forgot about that promise and bought another one.

Cratus, the son of Warcraft and Hate (not the same as War in the last novel) has been damned to live the rest of his life in pain and discomfort for betraying an order from Zeus. As Zeus banishes Cratus he is betrayed by all of the Gods that once feared and respected him. Once favored by Zeus for his blind loyalty he is doomed to live a lonely existence, suffering for the rest of his immortal life and wanting revenge against all those that have wronged him. He decides to ally with the enemy of the Greek Pantheon, Noir and his sister Azura, hoping that he'll get to kill Zeus in the process.

Delphine is an Oneroi Dream-Hunter who is asked by Zeus to find Cratus and convince him to help fight Noir and Azura because he is one of the few gods left that can derive power from the Source (I would tell you what the Source is, but I still have no idea). Told to seduce Cratus by his sister Nike Delphine is kidnapped by the Greek's enemy and given to Cratus as a slave. As he falls for her he realizes that the betrayals of his past need not haunt him anymore. There's also some plot involving Noir and Azura, but there are so many characters involved that it would take me days to describe it.

While technically not a Dark-Hunter novel (this one is a Dream-Hunter) it still includes a lot of the same characters and if you want to know what is happening in the world of the Dark-Hunters this one does advance the plot in them both. If you enjoy her old Dark Hunter series you might be upset at how far downhill her latest novels have become, but as far as I can tell she's more into quantity of books rather than quality. I read it in one sitting, but more due to the fact that I just wanted to finish it.

Cratus was bitter and angered but he got over that in hours because he fell in love with Delphine-it just seemed like too smooth of a transition to me. Plus the amount of characters she includes in this novel I can't count on twenty fingers and each one is more powerful than the other but can't use their powers or it will unbalance something else. It seems that the world is going to be plagued by a new enemy besides the Daimons in the evil Noir and Azura. So now by my counts we have the Gallu Demons, the Daimons, and the Daimons; mankind doesn't stand a chance. Can anyone use their powers anymore? Who are all of these characters? What the heck is "The Source," is it like "The Force?" I'm completely lost in this series now and I've read all of the previous books. I'm going to need a map to navigate my way through the next one; sucker that I am I'll probably forget how terrible this one was and buy it right away too.