This book kicked off a love of the paranormal world for me. I love this story and going back and re-reading it was just as much fun. Snark is my kryptonite. It just makes me happy on a whole nother level. That's probably why this is one of my favorite series'. I just love the jibes and quips that flip back and forth between all these characters.

Kyrian...oh Kyrian my drool worthy Greek. I do so love you. I have a soft spot in my heart for Greek history anyway as it was my major in college. Anytime you want to throw around a few Greek gods and little pieces of history I'm happy.

I appreciated that Amanda's not a push over as well. She's got a lot of grit and determination in that little body. She's a great balance for Kyrian and really brings out a fun side of him. Hello again snark. :D

Plus well I have a huge soft spot for Nick and love him in this story. Hello rollerblades in the mansion!!!

This is a really great introduction to this world and how crazy and complicated it gets later. The intricacies of the twist on Greek mythology with Apollo and his Apollites is a wonderfully creative way to make a vampire story work.

Didn't like it as much as Fantasy Lover, but still a fun and fluffy read.

I'm restarting the series!! I absolutely love this series and I miss it so I decided I am going re-read the whole series. I love Sherrilyn Kenyon and I honestly hope she never runs out of material for this series - I would feel as if I lost part of my family if she were to ever end it!

Does anyone know if and/or when this series is going to become a TV/Movie series? I've been wishing and hoping and praying for the rumors to be true but it's been years since the rumors first started that they were going to turn it into a series.

I love you Sherrilyn!! Never stop writing!! ❤️

More realistically a 4.5 rating.

I'm officially back on the Sherrilyn Kenyon Dark-Hunter's bandwagon!!!! After reading the first 4 and drifting away for a few years, I came back and am starting from the beginning in hopes of catching up with the series and I am back in love!!!

I forgot how much I really loved the Dark-Hunter world and Sherrilyn Kenyon does a fabulous job setting everything up with this first book. She is such a descriptive writer I had no trouble literally diving into the world.

I really enjoy Kyrian and Amanda separately and ADORE them together! They compliment each other so much and they just make me feel so happy :) Both are really stubborn with each other and I love how they got on each others' nerves in the beginning. Kyrian is just an overall great lead man: he's strong (obvs), funny (borderline hilarious sometimes), and just a sweet guy (figurative diabetes-inducing). He's got the tragic past that almost literally shatters your heart (notice shatter... not break.... but shatters... there's a difference) and I loved reading how him and Amanda get closer. It is almost enough to make me forgot my other romance pet-peeve took place (the dreaded "fall absolutely in love in a matter of days" thing.... usually can't stand that but for them... I didn't really mind it). The plot was really interesting and I like the new take on vampires, plus the mix in with Greek mythology. Super original and I'm really asking myself why I ever left this series in the first place....

Sadly, my only few drawbacks that kept this from being a 5 star rating was the mountains of repetition. Yes, Kyrian.... we understand you want Amanda but can't have her.... Yes, Amanda.... we get Kyrian is hot..... With Kyrian, I kind of could see that the repitiion was him having to keep reminding himself that he could never have the kind of life he wanted... but no matter the reason, it got kind of annoying.

Aside from the repetition, I absolutely loved the book! I'm hoping for some kind of over-arching plot to develop throughout the books (since I can't really remember the first books, hence why I'm re-reading them) but so far and am going to highly enjoy the Dark-Hunter series and this time, I'm not ditching it!

This book literally made me have massive internal battles with myself over reading or actually being productive with my life, and reading this book almost won out (sadly, I do need to make a living so the book had to be put down sometimes, but it was done with much internal protest). I hope I get as much enjoyment from the other books :)

I can’t believe I just read this super sappy sap. I need to go clean out my brain.

I’ll give Kenyon credit: she’s a talented writer. If I could stomach reading romance, I would totally read her books.

So when I first read this I thought it would be a continuation of Julian and Grace’s story, however I was pleasantly surprised to find that instead this book was focused on Kyrian (of Thrace) and Amanda. At the time of starting this book I had NO IDEA who or what Kyrian was, however I was pretty sure Amanda was related to Grace’s best friend Selena. The only thing that suggested Kyrian wasn’t pure human initially was the prologue, which talked about Kyrian of Thrace’s reputation and how he is now weirdly enough immortal.

We start the book with Amanda and Selena chatting about her ex and bagging him out while Selena does a tarot card reading for Selena. Later that night Amanda does yet another favour for her twin, Tabitha, and while doing so is mistakenly kidnapped! Good news is when she wakes up she’s not alone. Weirdly though, when this guy wakes up it turns out he’s so allergic to the sun he starts burning straight away. Like smoke and everything. To get them out Kyrian calls a friend who’s a coroner and gets them out, and to the city morgue, much to Amanda’s embarrassment (I think for this one you really need to read how Sherrilyn tells this story, it cracks me up every time!).

One this leads to another, which leads to Amanda and Kyrian being attacked by evil vampires and Kyrian desperately trying to protect both Amanda who doesn’t believe in the occult even though she’s surrounded by it, and Tabitha who believes that all vampires (or I should say, fanged people) are evil who both make his life difficult.

At the end of Kyrian and Amanda’s first day together Kyrian gets the surprise of his life when Amanda takes him to Julian to get their handcuffs removed. Julian and Kyrian have a moment of “holy crap, am I really seeing what I’m seeing?” since they fought together back in ancient Greece. Before Julian was locked in a book as a sex slave, and before Kyrian was executed.

Over the course of the book we learn the Amanda is one of many in her family who has supernatural powers and she begins to learn to harness them. While Kyrian gave up his soul when he died to Artemis to had 24 hours to exact revenge on those that were responsible for his death to in turn kill Daimons (evil vampires) to release the human souls they are eating. Yea…so the vampires in this series eat human souls rather than blood and the only way they can take possession of the souls is to kill the human. And the souls start dying as soon as the Daimons eat them, and the only way to release them is to kill them with a stab through the heart. Which is where the Dark Hunters (including Kyrian) comes into thing. To hunt and kill the Daimons freeing the human souls so they don’t die. To help them achieve this they are made “allergic” to the sun to make the fight fair, with many of the same traits as the Daimons, including having fangs.

Those fangs are what cause Kyrian grief with Amanda’s twin Tabitha. Cue a whole lot of in-fighting between Amanda and Tabitha over Kyrian and you have the drama for the book. Which I personally found quite entertaining. Sherrilyn’s writing style is always guaranteed to make me laugh in these types of moments in her books. And although Kyrian didn’t make it easy to like him to begin with his constant need to protect Amanda (including making her horrible ex look and feel like a right douche bag) making sure she feels special does end up winning you to his side.

And finding out how he was betrayed causing his death, by his whoring wife, really does make you feel for him. And he ends up being the hero we will wish we had. Yea he kinda sucked at protecting Amanda, she ended up saving his ass. But she ruined her hand and had to pretend to be under a spell to free him. Given that Kyrian is from ancient Greece I felt for him having his masculinity ripped to shreds, but at the same time I definitely liked that for once the girl saved the guy from something other than emotional trauma.

In summary, reading this book had my laughing a fair bit, surprised at the type of vampires Sherrilyn had created and loving the fact that history was woven in throughout the book in so many interesting ways. And not just factual history, but taking advantage of myths and legends to create an amazing world.

https://proudbookreviews.com/2018/05/11/dark-hunter-sherrilyn-kenyon-1/

So I was driving around town the other day and the car in front of me has a giant paper sign in their back window that said "Under The Protection of Acheron." I was intrigued, so I googled the phrase and found the connection to this Dark Hunters series. So, I read this first book in the series based on a recommendation from a car. and.... it was a sex book. like, so explicit! The paranormal world she sets up is pretty cool though... I like the squires a lot.

2.5

This book was not worth the hype for me. While it was an okay, entertaining-ish read, I'm not sure I would recommend it.

I thought the world was too confusing (I'm still not sure exactly what most of the creatures in this world are tbh)

Tho I have to say I did like the MCs and their relationship.

An amazing read

As always this is a wonderful Dark-Hunter series book. I can never get enough on Kenyon’s books. She always knows how to draw me in on the first page.

nothing more amusing to me than a 2000 year old vampire using a palm pilot pda