Devil May Cry (Dark-Hunter, Book 11) | Sherrilyn Kenyon

Devil May Cry (Dark-Hunter, Book 11) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | DEVIL MAY CRY

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	Devil May Cry (Dark-Hunter, Book 11) Sherrilyn Kenyon St. Martin's Press, 2007 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 137 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Well worth the hardcover price!

A fan since the beginning, Ms. Kenyon is still amazing me with her writing. Granted the books are all written in the same tempo and manner but thats why I love them! Mixed reviews had me a little leery at first although now I can't understand why. Excellent, waiting patiently for the next one.

DEVIL MAY CRY

EXCELLENT BOOK FOR THE DARK HUNTER SERIES AND I HAVE READ THEM ALL. I EQUATE READING TO AN EXCELLENT MEAL AN THIS PARTICULAR PORTION WAS SCRUMPTOUS.

A 3 1/2, but because I love the series, a 4!

Kat has been ordered, by her mother, Artemis, to locate and kill Sin, a seemingly evil and rogue Dark Hunter. Eager to please her mother, Kat tracks down Sin (ex-fertility God & Sumerian) and realizes that everything is not what it seems. Sin isn't exactly evil, and she doesn't exactly have the stomach to kill him especially since she is hiding a secret (that it is she who stole his powers and not her mother). It soon becomes evident that "deliciously sexy Sin" has been trying to prevent some really bad things from happening to a very unsuspecting world. As each face their own secret pasts and devastating pasts, they have to save the world and each other. As Kat attempts to right a wrong, Sin fights to locate his brother, Zakar (who not only holds the key to the mystery but who also has the ability to prevent evil from escaping) and forgive himself for not protecting him. Meanwhile Sin learns that Zakar has been held and tortured by some really bad people who care nothing about humankind. And on top of that, our beloved Ash is being held as a love slave by Artemis and was never told that Kat was his daughter.

If you love the Dark Hunter series, Devil May Cry will not leave you disappointed, just with some of the same questions that you had before, even though you do get a little more information about why Ash deals with Artemis. Although Ash is sacrificing himself for mankind, I am a little tired of Artemis and her antics. But with that said, you do get to see some of the characters that you have grown to love as the series developed (Simi, Ash, Hates, etc), and there are definitely hints of future stories (novel ends in a cliffhanger) to come.

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Dark Hunters or X Men?

Perhaps for someone who had never read any of Kenyon's Dark Hunters, this might have been a good book, but for me this was tedious. It seemed as if she had merely churned out a book in order to tie up a few more loose ends in the series which had little or nothing to do with story of the book itself. This plot did not seem to me to contribute much to the overall story arc, nor was the story particularly compelling. Although I like Ash, he is getting very boring. By the time his own book comes out, we will know almost all his backstory anyway, and not give two hoots about his future either. Sin and Kat, supposedly the main characters, were not engaging at all, despite the banter.

On a totally different note, I have to ask: Is America the only Daimon/demon infested place on earth? I mean all these gods - the Greeks, Atlantean, Sumatrean, etc. - all come from a totally different part of the world, not to mention the Dark Hunters (remember them?) who come from Africa, Europe, the Middle East. Do vampires not suck blood on the streets of Delhi? Are the inhabitants of Johannesburg immune to Daimon attacks? Perhaps Parisians have a special get out of jail free card for the end of the world?

Frankly, I am amazed Kenyon's world didn't die out centuries ago. In the beginning of this series there was one hinted cause of the Apocalypse: Ash. In this book I counted aproximately seven different ways to destroy the world: Ash, Ash's Ma; the death of Artemis; the death of Kat; releasing demon species number one; releasing demon species number two; the death of any god/goddess - yet despite the wholesale destruction of at least two pantheons, somehow the world still survives.

It seems that lately each book is getting successively more over the top. Each hero must be more tortured, look more evil, control or have the potential to control more power than the previous one. Never-before-heard-of yet centuries-old threats-to-all-humanity (at least those living in North America)seem to pop up every few books with tedious regularity, each more powerful, violent, potentially destructive yet easily defeatable than the last. The heroines have mutated from being strong ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances, to being powerful goddesses who act like they just graduated from highschool despite being centuries old.

This latest offering was rather like reading an episode of the X-Men. Paranormal adolescents on steroids.

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Entertaining

Devil May Cry is an entertaining installment in the Dark Hunter series, but not one of the best. We learn more about the world Kenyon has created and her characters' histories, which for fans will be the most important aspect of the novel.

The romance itself is just okay. I felt like Sin's dual personality was a bit cliched and Katya's love a bit rushed. Par for the course with your standard romance novel, in other words. The plot and action were entertaining and the novel as a whole was a good read, but it's nothing that will stand out amongst its peers.

There are both better and worse books in the Dark Hunter series. If you're new to the series, I can't recommend starting with this installment. If you're a fan, the revelations in the novel make it more than worth reading.

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