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| The Darkest Pleasure (Lords of the Underworld, Book 3) | 
 enlarge | Author: Gena Showalter
Publisher: HQN Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 2813
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0373773102
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780373773107
ASIN: 0373773102
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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 A Dark Pleasure July 7, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Great as a continuation of the series. Great on its own. Look forward to the next book........So far I have liked all 3 books in the series.
I love the Lords! June 21, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This third book in Showalter's new series is just as good, if not better, than the first two. "Darkest Pleasure" took longer for me to get really into the story, but once it had me, I couldn't put it down!
Reyes is the keeper of the demon Pain, which leads him to self-mutilate in order to keep from hurting others. He's fallen for a human woman named Danika, whose entire family has been targeted for excution by the Titans, and one of Reyes's brothers is sent to complete the task. The beginning is a little choppy since a few weeks have apparently passed since the conclusion of "Darkest Kiss" and it takes a bit to figure out all that's going on.
What's interesting in this book is that the reader's been able to see the two main character's stories develop through Darkest Night and Darkest Kiss. It makes you care more about what happens to them and want their happy ending.
Showalter sets up several more plotlines in this book, which hopefully means this series will continue on for awhile. With such an intersting concept, I'll have no problem buying them all.
 The Darkest Pleasure by Gena Showalter June 22, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I stayed up til 2:00am to finish this book.
I very much enjoyed "The Darkest Pleasure" and found the expansion of the storyline pretty fascinating. It's easy to see after reading this one that Showalter and Harlequin have big plans for this series. We finally meet the shadowy leader of the Hunters, and his identity is quite the surprise. We also find another of the artifacts needed on the quest to find Pandora's missing box. We learn a little more history and a little more about the scope of the battles to come. But mostly we learn about Reyes and Danika.
Reyes' past was very difficult. Learning about the history behind his efforts to leash Pain was, well...rather painful (no pun intended). The lengths he was willing to go to in order to spare humans-just wow. All he wants is a respite from Pain, a little peace where he doesn't have to leash his demon. He finds that in Danika, but fears that having Danika will expose her to the taint of his demon, and he's very unwilling to do that. So he can't keep her and he can't let her go either.
Danika always wanted to be normal, but she never was. She can't seem to come to grips with that and I disliked her intensely for almost half the book. But I can say that she redeems herself beautifully and I think these two are a perfect pair.
Neither trusts the other and each of them apparently betrays their loved ones at some point in this book. I really didn't like that. However, haven't we all betrayed someone we love in some way in our lives? I guess that's just part of being fallible and it's nice to know that sometimes our heroes and heroines are fallible too. In all, I think the progression of their relationship was just as it needed to be. Without all the missteps, misunderstandings, and mistakes they would never have gotten to such a strong ending. And the ending of this book is worth missing a few hours of sleep!
Now for my rant. I'm ticked that I have to wait 16 months, yes folks that's November of freaking 2009 for book 4. Books 5 & 6 are scheduled to follow in Feb and May 2010 respectively. Come on already...a year is understandable, but almost a year and a half? Why publish the current releases now? Why not delay their release a couple of months each? I'm actually a tad (!?@#) pissed at Harlequin for this and would be interested to hear their marketing strategy. It would have to be a really good one to risk alienating fans with such a long wait when there are plenty of competitive paranormal series out there without such a long gap between books.
Steamy Pleasure/Pain June 23, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have been waiting for Darkest Pleasure since I finished Darkest Kiss. Gena Showalter definitely has created believable, hot, tormented characters in her Lords of the Underworld series.
Reyes is the Keeper of Pain; which makes one wonder how he's supposed to enjoy pleasure with Danika if he constantly has to self mutilate to keep his demon happy and quiet. Danika escapes Aeron only to end up in the Lords' enemies hands. Reyes has to choose whether or bring her back and protect her or let her go for good.
The beginning is a little rough if you haven't read Darkest Kiss right before reading Darkest Pleasure, but the reader soon is transported into the Lords' world. Definitely a keeper.
This is a great paranormal romance to read. All of the characters tug on your heart and you want each of the Lords to find someone to help tame their demon. Reyes will truly have you falling in love with him. On Gena's website she said there will be many more books! I believe the next one is about Sabin...
A little disappointing; but still a good read... June 26, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I, too, was eagerly waiting Reyes story. This was a good read; but, really very little was written on Reyes & Danika. They seemed more of a 'backdrop' to set up future storylines/books in the series; which Ms. Showalter alluded to in the front of the book.
One might even think Paris was the subject of this book; not to give too much away. A lot of 'backstory' was crammed into this book.
Aeron was also a big portion of the book and his conflict was both torturous and laugh out loud funny. Sabin has gotten more and more intriguing and I look forward to his book.
Compared to Maddox and Lucien's stories; I felt letdown by Reyes'. I was eagerly looking forward to his and Danika's first sexual encounter and the build up was excellent; THEN that story just came to a dead stop and it was several chapters later before the author got back to them.
So, yes, I think it is a good 'buy'and hopefully the future books stay truer to the Lord of the Underworld in question.
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