To make matters worse, even if her attraction is real, he can’t possibly give in to Anya because he will eventually have to kill her. Lucien, who is horribly scarred, is unable to imagine anyone being attracted to him and thinks she is seeking to destroy him. Despite his rejection and the fact that he’s trying to kill her, Anya just can’t stay away. To compound matters, he has orders to kill her.
After secretly helping him and his fellow warriors, she practically throws herself at him, and, to her disappointment, he resists. Until she spies Lucien, that is, and his darkness draws her to him like candy.
Her mother’s promiscuity and the circumstances of her own birth brought about a curse that keeps her from seeking out love. Plus, they must seek out items that could help them to discover the whereabouts of Pandora’s Box.Īnya, the minor Goddess of Anarchy, is a woman cursed. He and his fellow warriors are constantly hunted by those wanting to rid the world of their presence and are tied up in a struggle for power between the Greek Gods and the Titan Gods. His duty is his misery he must escort souls to either heaven or hell for eternity, including the soul of the woman he once loved. As I read, I felt excluded from the books’ target audience, which is a first for me.Īs one of the Greek warriors who opened Pandora’s Box, Lucien is forced to house the Demon of Death within himself. She’s not TSTL (actually she’s quite shrewd), but her actions and dialogue and the fact that I couldn’t identify with her at all made this otherwise good story and interesting hero nearly unbearable. The heroine of Gena Showalter’s The Darkest Kiss will probably win my nomination as the most annoying of the year.
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