The Darkest Pleasure (Lords of the Underworld, Book 3) | Gena Showalter

The Darkest Pleasure (Lords of the Underworld, Book 3) | Gena Showalter | Book #3 - The Best so far!

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	The Darkest Pleasure (Lords of the Underworld, Book 3) Gena Showalter HQN Books, 2008 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 53 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Suspense

This is a great book with lots of suspense and romance. The series has been great!!

Book #3 - The Best so far!

Oh, how I loved this one! The story of Danika and Reyes is a whirlwind of emotions and self-doubts (although Sabin's demon doesn't help here either). Inner battles waging war, battles with those who want them dead and/or captured, enemies trying to get the four artifacts and Pandora's Box before the warriors do - incredible fights, incredible thoughts, incredible suspense and mystery, incredibly erotic love scenes all added up to a perfect ending!

Danika - now there is a heroine I truly adore in a novel. Running, hiding and fighting for her life, she and her mother, sister and grandmother are seperated, hiding from the one warrior who was sent by the gods to kill them - Aeron, who `houses' the demon or Wrath. (He is currently chained, by Reyes, at the very bottom of the fortress's dungeon - and I can't wait for his book!) Captured by hunters, she is told a story that she is meant to believe, and she sort of does. Rescued by the warriors, she's back under Reyes's `protection', and yet most believe that she is either bait or a plant - especially Sabin. Fighting her inner battles, wanting to run, wanting to stay, wanting to find and protect her family, she is supposed to be spying on the warriors and relating information back to the hunters. Only, she can't do it - she can't betray Reyes, for his touch alone brings warmth.

Reyes is completely enthralled with Danika. Housing the demon of Pain, he learned to control the demon somewhat, and now only hurts himself to control the demon's urges. He is forced to chain Aeron in the dungeon to keep Danika and her family alive - and it eats him up inside. Meanwhile, he wants Danika in every way - and is determined to get her. However, there's a catch. He's tried the relationship thing before, but by allowing the women to give him pain at the same time as pleasure had always turned bad - the women turning around and hurting everyone in their path. Reyes refuses to allow that to happen to Danika - until she finally proves that she can do what he needs without damaging herself in turn. But then, there is a turn of events as well, for his demon seems to `take a hike' when they make love.

An incredible love story, they both beat the odds and the head God, Cronus, the king of Titans. And very creatively, I might add. I soooo can't wait for the next novel!

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fun series

Who doesn't love a story with a bunch of sexy men? I wasn't disappointed with this one. Reyes and Danika went perfectly together. Poor Paris! I hope when his story comes about it will be able to live up to all the hipe Showalter has led us along with. Although, I have a feeling that we'll have to wait awhile since her next book is another Atlantis one.

Not as good as the first two books.

This book was enjoyable but it did not have the intense romance that Lucien and Anya did in the 2nd book or Maddox and Ashyln in the 1st book. I felt like there was something missing. I don't feel like Reyes has much of a personality. His character needs to be developed more. Lucien and Maddox are great characters but i can't really understand Reyes. His personality was so flat. The saving grace with this book is Paris and Aeron. If it wasn't for their short storyline, i would have given this installment only 3 stars.

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4 stars

Reyes is the last man Dannika should trust. For one thing, he's bound to the demon of pain and forbidden to know pleasure. For another, he and his cohorts kidnapped her and have tried to exterminate her family. Yet, now, she is the one woman he wants and he is the only man who can keep her safe. Mortals determined to end Reyes and his fellow Lords of Darkness' existence have tried to use Dannika, demons want her dead, and now, she learns she and the other women in her family are they key to some sort of treasure. Her choices now might be the difference between love and death, and could prove critical for the world itself.

**** Of all the books in this series, this is the most moving and compelling. The concluding chapters will simply stun you with the drama of them. I'm reminded somewhat of the Key to Time series from the classic Doctor Who era and also of Terry Brooks' earliest works. However, there is much more romance and passion in this. You will not be sorry if you add this to your collection. ****

Amanda Killgore for Huntress Reviews.

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