Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Dark-Hunter, Book 12)
To celebrate the US release of Acheron in mass market paperback, we’re running a week-long series of posts to get us up to speed on Dark-Hunter mythology and the characters that we should probably know about before reading Acheron. (Thanks to our resident guru on all things Dark-Hunter: Decadence.) These posts have no Acheron spoilers, but they do contain spoilers to previous books in the series. Acheron is out in mass market format on March 31.
Acheron Cheat Sheet: Part 1
Acheron: The early years
“I am Acheron, son of no one. Revered only within the confines of a bedroom.”
Acheron was born a god in human form to a Greek king and queen, but was immediately spurned by all after he was denounced as the son of a god. His “parents” wanted to kill him, but a wise woman told them his life was linked with that of their own son, Styxx, so that if they wanted to keep their son and heir, they had to
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Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Dark-Hunter, Book 12)
To celebrate the US release of Acheron in mass market paperback, we’re running a week-long series of posts to get us up to speed on Dark-Hunter mythology and the characters that we should probably know about before reading Acheron. (Thanks to our resident guru on all things Dark-Hunter: Decadence.) These posts have no Acheron spoilers, but they do contain spoilers to previous books in the series. Acheron is out in mass market format on March 31.
Introduction
Apollo created the Apollite race through traditional means of procreation (so they are all descended from him and have his blood in their veins), but he also gave them superior strength and psychic abilities. Zeus wasn’t happy about that last bit, so he banished the Apollites to Atlantis where they mixed with the race living there. Apollo wanted to take over as the supreme god, so he fathered children on an Atlantean and they married into the Atlantean royal family and Apollo kept reproducing with the royalty there, hoping to create someone powerful enough to enable Apollo to overthrow Zeus.
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The Taste of Innocence by Stephanie Laurens (Cynster Series, Book 14)
My first romance was a historical that I read about a decade ago and I blame Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Jane Eyre for piquing my interest. Whatever the reason, I got into historical romance well before I picked up a contemporary, and one of my early favourites was Stephanie Laurens. Her Cynsters were strong, confident, even arrogant in a hot way, but when they fell in love, they fell hard and it takes a strong woman to handle their passion and overbearing protectiveness. Now that she’s exhausted an entire generation of Cynster men, she’s moved onto the younger male relatives of the Cynster wives, who have been moulded into the Cynster image through years of exposure to their powerful in-laws.
The Taste of Innocence is Charlie Morwellan’s story (his half-sister Alathea married her childhood friend Gabriel Cynster in the fifth book, A Secret Love). After watching love ensnare his closest friends Gerrard Debbington and Dillon Caxton, Charlie decides to take the bull by the horns and choose a comfortable wife whom he can admire but not love. Like the Cynsters, the Morwellans have a history of marrying for love, and Charlie’s father allowed the emotion to control him to the point where the family estate and fortune was almost lost, and Charlie has learned from this mistake.
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Sherrilyn Kenyon book signing at Galaxy Bookshop (24/2/09)
On the train into the city, I picked up where I left off weeks ago in Midnight Kiss Goodbye, Dianna Love’s contribution to the Dead After Dark anthology (which I stopped because I wasn’t in the right headspace at the time—it’s not a reflection on Dianna because I actually liked the story this time around). Then I got to the end of the story and the thwarted villain says to Ekkbar, the weaselly double-crossing magician blamed for the failure, “Give me one reason I should not spend the rest of eternity in this dung pit slicing a strip off your skinny hide daily and making you fry it for my meal.”
I was disturbed to think this came out of the bubbly, energetic, upbeat blonde I met in Melbourne. Scary, scary Dianna.
The signing was moved forward from 5.30 to 4.30,
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Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum, Book 14)
In my library/computer room, I have a red box mounted on my wall. You know the type—fronted with glass bearing the words “IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, BREAK GLASS” with the little hammer alongside. This box doesn’t contain the lever to my alarm system, or a fire extinguisher, or ten thousand dollars in unmarked, non-sequential bills and a passport under the name Jane Smith. No, it contains something much more vital than that. It contains two unread Stephanie Plum books, soon to be joined by the new release, Plum Spooky (after all, three Plums are better than two). Or it did until I broke the glass over the weekend.
These books are the reading equivalent of chocolate, with a lot of nuts thrown in.
The usual suspects
Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter with more luck than talent, who is occasionally partnered up with a black, plus-sized, trigger-happy ex-ho named Lula, who is the source of many hilarious moments throughout the series. She has an on-again off-again relationship with hot bad-boy-turned-cop Joe Morelli
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