Synopsis
In the war against vampires, mankind has only one hope: The Dark-Hunters. Ancient warriors who died of brutal betrayal, the Dark-Hunters have sworn themselves into the service of the goddess Artemis to protect us.
It's a pact with pretty good perks. Immortality, power, psychic abilities, wealth and a cool wardrobe. But it comes with a few drawbacks: fatal sun poisoning and a new, irreparable dental problem. But aside from the fangs and nocturnal lifestyle, it's not so bad.
Talon, an ancient Celtic warrior, has been cursed by the god Camulus for killing his son. Camulus cursed Talon, decreeing death for everyone he loved. Now a Dark-Hunter in modern-day New Orleans, Talon meets Sunshine, who is key to ending his curse once and for all. Not to mention helping him to save New Orleans from an ancient god bent on total destruction...
My thoughts:
I enjoyed reading Talon and Sunshine's story when I started the Dark Hunter series a few years ago and it is nice to go back and revisit them. Over the course of time some of the details have gotten fuzzy for me, but for the most part I remembered the events that took place. This book is only part one of their story, just as volumes one and two followed Kyrian and Amanda, volumes three and four are about Talon and Sunshine. Both Kyrian and Julian make an appearance, along with Acheron and Nick. Thinking ahead, if the manga series continues, I wonder how many books it will take to tell Acheron's story. His was the longest of all the books and the most involved. When I read the series his book is the one I started with so I knew all his secrets already when the characters in the books were still in the dark about him.
Getting back to the book, I enjoyed the illustrations and the telling through visuals. I don't always care for the way the characters faces look when they are surprised or embarrassed, but I am guessing that that is a characteristic of manga illustrations (since the Dark-Hunter books are the only manga books I've tried out to this point in time). I don't recall Ash having such long hair either, but it has been awhile.
Sunshine is one of the characters I always liked. I liked her forgetfulness and the way she lives in her own little world. In the novel Starla is introduced and then you find out that she is Sunshine's mother, but this book skipped over that. Perhaps it didn't seem important or it could be that Kenyon and her editors thought that most readers of the manga books would have already read the novels so they would know that already.
In this book Styxx makes an appearance but who he is is not mentioned. I can't recall if that was the case in the book either since I already knew who he was from having read the books our of order. I love how quick and easy these reads are and how time flies while I am reading them. I've started the fourth one, but now I need to look and see when the next one is supposed to come out.
Product Details
Pub. Date: September 2010
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Format: Paperback , 208pp
Series: Dark-Hunter Manga Series
ISBN-13: 9780312376888
ISBN: 031237688X
Biography
Sherrilyn Kenyon is a #1 New York Times bestselling author with more than sixteen million copies of her books in print, in over thirty countries. She is the author of the Dark-Hunter novels, which have an international cult following and always appear at the top of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today lists. Writing both as Sherrilyn Kenyon and Kinley MacGregor, she is also the author of several other series, including: The League, Brotherhood of the Sword, Lords of Avalon, The Dream-Hunters and the forthcoming Nevermore.
In the war against vampires, mankind has only one hope: The Dark-Hunters. Ancient warriors who died of brutal betrayal, the Dark-Hunters have sworn themselves into the service of the goddess Artemis to protect us.
It's a pact with pretty good perks. Immortality, power, psychic abilities, wealth and a cool wardrobe. But it comes with a few drawbacks: fatal sun poisoning and a new, irreparable dental problem. But aside from the fangs and nocturnal lifestyle, it's not so bad.
Talon, an ancient Celtic warrior, has been cursed by the god Camulus for killing his son. Camulus cursed Talon, decreeing death for everyone he loved. Now a Dark-Hunter in modern-day New Orleans, Talon meets Sunshine, who is key to ending his curse once and for all. Not to mention helping him to save New Orleans from an ancient god bent on total destruction...
My thoughts:
I enjoyed reading Talon and Sunshine's story when I started the Dark Hunter series a few years ago and it is nice to go back and revisit them. Over the course of time some of the details have gotten fuzzy for me, but for the most part I remembered the events that took place. This book is only part one of their story, just as volumes one and two followed Kyrian and Amanda, volumes three and four are about Talon and Sunshine. Both Kyrian and Julian make an appearance, along with Acheron and Nick. Thinking ahead, if the manga series continues, I wonder how many books it will take to tell Acheron's story. His was the longest of all the books and the most involved. When I read the series his book is the one I started with so I knew all his secrets already when the characters in the books were still in the dark about him.
Getting back to the book, I enjoyed the illustrations and the telling through visuals. I don't always care for the way the characters faces look when they are surprised or embarrassed, but I am guessing that that is a characteristic of manga illustrations (since the Dark-Hunter books are the only manga books I've tried out to this point in time). I don't recall Ash having such long hair either, but it has been awhile.
Sunshine is one of the characters I always liked. I liked her forgetfulness and the way she lives in her own little world. In the novel Starla is introduced and then you find out that she is Sunshine's mother, but this book skipped over that. Perhaps it didn't seem important or it could be that Kenyon and her editors thought that most readers of the manga books would have already read the novels so they would know that already.
In this book Styxx makes an appearance but who he is is not mentioned. I can't recall if that was the case in the book either since I already knew who he was from having read the books our of order. I love how quick and easy these reads are and how time flies while I am reading them. I've started the fourth one, but now I need to look and see when the next one is supposed to come out.
Product Details
Pub. Date: September 2010
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Format: Paperback , 208pp
Series: Dark-Hunter Manga Series
ISBN-13: 9780312376888
ISBN: 031237688X
Biography
Sherrilyn Kenyon is a #1 New York Times bestselling author with more than sixteen million copies of her books in print, in over thirty countries. She is the author of the Dark-Hunter novels, which have an international cult following and always appear at the top of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today lists. Writing both as Sherrilyn Kenyon and Kinley MacGregor, she is also the author of several other series, including: The League, Brotherhood of the Sword, Lords of Avalon, The Dream-Hunters and the forthcoming Nevermore.
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