One Silent Night

One Silent Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dark-Hunters

ISBN# 978-0-312-94706-4
Available now
Published by St. Martin's Press
Format: mm pbk., 310 pages
Genres: fiction, urban fantasy, paranormal romance

This is entry number 13 in the series and this far in you really should be reading them in order since storylines are now being played out over three or four books.  Before you go out and buy this book I must also tell you that it is 310 pages long only because it's set in large print so if you don't feel like paying novel price for a novella I suggest getting it from the library or a used book store.  Besides the Dark-Hunter series Sherrilyn Kenyon also writes the Dream-Hunter series and, under the name Kinley MacGregor, the Lords of Avalon series.  The correct reading of the Dark-Hunter books including all the short stories and, the sometimes intersecting, Dream-Hunter books can be found here.  

Losing his sister (in Acheron) was the final straw for Stryker.  Once again he's out to kill Ash, and now Nick.  This time he's feeling a tad suicidal so he doesn't really care what kind of forces he has to invoke to get the job done.  He visits Tartarus to release something so powerful that it took all the gods banding together just to contain him.  He is War, the ultimate spirit of battle, and he's never been one to follow orders.  When news of War's release spreads to Olympus Artemis implements a plan of her to, at the very least, keep Stryker busy.  Artemis sends Stryker's first wife to kill him which she is more than happy to do since he left her and his unborn child high and dry to marry a priestess.  Zephyra loses the duel and is forced to give Stryker two weeks to win her back.  Stryker is now determined more than ever to win his soul mate back since he thought she was dead until she showed up in his throne room trying to kill him.  Zephyra quickly begins to discover that she may not have known the entire situation and that chemistry they had while married is still very much alive.  Will they be reunited only to lose their daughter or will Stryker swallow his pride long enough to ask for the help of some very unlikely allies?

The reviews I've seen are pretty evenly split for this book, but personally I liked it.  It seems that not many people like Zephyra because they think she's cold and they find the relationship unbelievable because of her personality.  I don't see it that way at all.  Of course she's pissed, before Stryker she was abused and after he left she was pregnant and still had to go back to being abused in order to raise her child.  She thought he was the one person that loved her while everyone else told her how worthless she was and then he left because his father told him to.  They do fit so well together because, although Stryker was a god's son, they were both physically and mentally abused by their own families.  This book also begins the rise of the daimons so definitely keep reading.

Zhye