Devil May Cry

I decided to read this after reading Acheron because it involves Acheron's daughter. I wanted to read about her and the moment when she and Acheron meet. And in that I was satisfied. In other ways ...

As I've said before, I love the mythology in these books and the interactions between the gods - learning about their mistakes, their loss of power, their family relations. I eat it up. The modern day vampire romance doesn't do much for me. And having the main characters throw themselves at each other after a few minutes of having met doesn't help. But, it comes with the territoriality. Honestly, I think the romance genre could be done well if an effort was made to form realistic relationships. But, I digress.

All in all, I wasn't very interested in the plot of this book. And I found myself reading it just so I could get to the end and be done. One of the things Kenyon usually does well in her novels is sass. Kat dishes out a lot of it and Sin dishes it back to her. For the first few chapters, I loved it, but then it started to get annoying. I don't know if it was too much or if I was just annoyed at everything else.

This book is basically one huge pity party. Through the entirety of it, Sin is constantly wondering and often out right asking Kat if she's going to betray him. Even after she confesses her love for him and risks her life on more than one occasion and bends over backwards to help him out, he's still wondering when she's going to put a knife in his back. And then Kat starts questioning if he's going to betray her, like Sin's issues have rubbed off on her or something. And then Acheron starts - it's a wonder I actually finished this book instead of throwing it against the wall and saying the heck with it!

As side from the story itself, there's a lot of information in here that deals with what is in Acheron, and some of it is near word for word scenes that go into the book. Why, as an author, if you knew you were going to write a book on a particular character, would you pack so much information into the previous novels? Part of my enjoyment of Acheron was that most of it was new to me. I'm not sure I would have enjoyed it that much if I had read the series in order and had had so much of it explained to me beforehand.

I won't be continuing with the rest of series, but that was pretty much a given. I only really wanted to read Acheron, which I've done. The rest of this series really isn't for me. But if you're interested in trying it out, my recommendation would be to pick up Dance with the Devil and go from there.