The Darkest Kiss (Lords of the Underworld, Book 2) | 
| Author: Gena Showalter
Publisher: HQN Books
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Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0373772327
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780373772322
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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She has tempted many men… but never found her equal.Until now. Though she has lived for centuries, Anya, goddess of anarchy, has never known pleasure. Until Lucien, the incarnation of death—a warrior eternally doomed to take souls to the hereafter. He draws her like no other. And Anya will risk anything to have him. But when the merciless Lord of the Underworld is ordered by the gods to claim Anya herself, their uncontrollable attraction becomes an anguished pursuit. Now they must defeat the unconquerable forces that control them, before their thirst for one another demands a sacrifice of love beyond imagining.…
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 Another Disappointment, but I Expected It. September 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sigh. I went ahead and read this one after the first one was so disappointing. The story is about Lucien, the immortal warrior who contains the demon Death. He sounds like a totally hot dude in the series, but then he gets saddled with a brain-damaged Valley Girl who is immortal and constantly sucks on lollipops. Ummmmm, yeah, right. If Ashlynn in the first book became known as Wimpstick in my head, this one became "Wanna-Be-Acheron's-Demon-Pet-Siri-From-Sherrilynn-Kenyon's-Series" (aka, Siri the Second). After the usual, expected back and forth moments in their relationship, they get together and everyone is happy--at least as happy as you can get trapped with a woman who's about ten years old on a mental level. Another point that bugged me--Lucien's supposed to be all scarred & scary looking but the guy on the cover looks like he never got a paper cut in his life. Too uneven for me. I read number three in this series of what will probably end up being ten books (do the math, 10 immortal warriors = ten books). Sigh.
Darkest Kiss by Gena Showalter September 2, 2008
The second installation of Gena Showalter's Lords of the Underworld Series was much better than the first of the series (in my humble opinion). It could have to do with the fact that the characters were a tad more believable or it could have been the fact that all the backstory setup was already accomplished.
I had a problem with Violence (Maddox) becoming anwhere reasonably tempered in the first book but found Death (Lucien) to be spot-on what I was expecting. Lucien is cold, shut-off from emotion and others in an effort to keep his own demon perfectly under his iron control.
And then there's Anya, minor goddess of Anarchy and a more perfect foil for Lucien's staidness couldn't be found. She is snarky and silly and goes after what she wants without regard to anyone. In their first meeting she tempts him in front of his brothers to lose control and almost suceeds. She lies and thieves to keep her more violent side at bay and just can't seem to get enough of Lucien.
It really does work out perfectly since as a goddess Anya is immortal like the rest of the Lords of the Underworld and Anya is perfectly capable of defending herself against Death. Cronus, the king of the Titans, has set a task to Lucien; to kill Anya or else he will make the other Lords suffer. Initially Lucien tries to take Anya out but his attempts are half-hearted at best. Little by little they learn about each other and why the Titans are toying with them.
Anya is the daughter of Lawlessness and Tartarus. Tartarus' wife is Justice and when she found out about Anya, Justice cursed her so that Anya would never be able to complete the sex act. Penetration would bind her to the man for forever, even if he were to love another. To further complicate matters Anya carries within her the All-Key which allows her to escape from any prison and guarantees her freedom. The person that kills her to take the All-Key becomes powerless himself (something that Cronus didn't exactly tell Lucien) and if Anya were to freely give up the All-Key she would lose all memory of her life while she had the All-Key. This renders both Lucien and Anya helpless to save each other on more than one occasion. To up the ante (again) the Lords of the Underworld must search out Pandora's box before the Hunters find it and to find it they must find four powerful objects first.
This book is action packed and easy to read. Lucien and Anya are a much better couple than Maddox and Ashlyn were in the first book and there is so much else going on that even if you don't like them as characters there is backup and the third book is poised to start with Reyes and Danika. I can't wait to see how THAT turns out...
Hate the heroine, love the hero August 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What heinous crime did poor, sexy Lucien commit to get saddled with this chick? Anya is annoying in the extreme and completely unconvincing as an ancient goddess. Some readers may enjoy her lollypop-sucking, name-calling, shoplifting, slang-talking ways, but I don't.
If You Like a Dominate Female August 24, 2008
Firstly, I love this series to death! The Lords of the Underworld series is amazing and I've fallen in love with all of the characters.
Now, the Darkest Kiss my least favorite of the three because:
1) Sounds horrid and shallow of me to say this, but the main character, Lucien, Keeper of Death, is supposed to be an ugly warrior, with scars covering his face and body. This put me off from the get-go. I found myself flipping back to the book cover while reading, trying to convince myself that he actually looked like that. =[
2) I thought there wasn't enough intimacy between the two main characters and I didn't like that the goddess pursued him the whole time and kind of made him look weak compared to her. She was the ballsy one.
Besides those two things, the book was a good and I would read it again for sure. 3 or 4 chapters of the book are about Paris (I don't want to give anything away), which was something I didn't see in the other two books. So, the book wasn't strictly about Lucien and a sassy goddess; it skipped around to the other warriors and their "intimacies" a lot.
I would recommend this book, especially to women that like a dominant female, rather than a male.
 Darkest Kisss - you will want August 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Read in conjunction with Darkest Night. One of Gena Showalters best series. Each one is better than the last.
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