Review of Night Pleasures

Night Pleasures by Sherrilyn Kenyon
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This book ended up on my Nook as a special offering, and was forgotten. I love book covers, and I kept putting off reading the ebook because the cover was cheesy, as are most of the Dark Hunter covers.

Having lived in New Orleans and the surrounding area for many, many years, it intrigued me that this book was set in the area. Unfortunately there's very little depth to the settings, almost as if someone visited and said "hey, I'll make this a setting of my book" and left. I found myself rolling my eyes over the use of swamps and catamarans, alligators, Cajuns, and other things.

I found the dialogue predictable, repetitive, and cheesy, and the narrative jumped about so many times I found myself going back to see if my ebook had jumped several pages. Nope.

The characters were rather cartoonish at times, and the references to B movies distracting.

Here's another thing. It's time to go back and release the book after it's been updated. Palm Pilots, PDA, VCR's all date the story.

How this series has survived into so many books defies logic, but then what doesn't interest one reader can be catnip to another.

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