Fantasy Lover (Hunter Legends, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Dec 03, 2019 Carrie rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal-romance, mgr, own, fantasy-romance, goddess-gods

Grace has been single for sometime now, she's had a bad experience with someone who only used her and right at a time when she was most vulnerable.

Julian has been trapped inside a book for centuries only freed when summoned and for the purpose of being a love slave (sex slave).He is bound to that person until the next full moon.

Selena, Graces best friend, decides that Grace has been alone for too long and on the night of her (Graces) birthday she bring this book over for them to summon Julian. ...more

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Apr 07, 2009 Kati rated it really liked it

Shelves: look-for-more, 2007, in-english, romance-para

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. "Fantasy Lover" by Sherrilyn Kenyon is a het romance, set in New Orleans before the whole hurricane disaster. It's very het, no gay stuff there and there is a lot of het sex there too. Actually, since Julian is a sex slave, I think you can imagine how sex-driven this book actually is :)

Okay, about the content: Julian of Macedon is a general in ancient Greece who leads his army against Rome. His father is a Spartan soldier, his mother is Aphrodite, the Goddess. After Julian's family is murdered, "Fantasy Lover" by Sherrilyn Kenyon is a het romance, set in New Orleans before the whole hurricane disaster. It's very het, no gay stuff there and there is a lot of het sex there too. Actually, since Julian is a sex slave, I think you can imagine how sex-driven this book actually is :)

Okay, about the content: Julian of Macedon is a general in ancient Greece who leads his army against Rome. His father is a Spartan soldier, his mother is Aphrodite, the Goddess. After Julian's family is murdered, the God Priapus who is jealous of Julian curses Julian into a scroll. For two thousand years Julian serves as a sex slave for one month to every woman who says his name three times at midnight. Until the scroll becomes the property of Grace Alexander, a sex therapist in New Orleans. Grace falls in love with the gorgeous sex slave and decides to save Julian, no matter what.

This book is really hot - if you like het sex. I don't mind sex in books but here, there could have been sligthly less of that. It was a bit distracting and dragged the plot on and on. I have to admit that I started to skip the hot-hot-hot scenes to get back to the plot quicker.

There is good stuff there too, though. Aphrodite. Eros and Psyche - biker boy and biker girl. Grace's weirdo friend Selena who gave her the scroll... I loved the scenes with Julian and Eros, they were really amusing. But there are touching scenes there too, like when Julian tells Grace about how is wife murdered their children. Really sad that one.

But why did I actually buy this one? Because it's a prequel to Kenyon's Dark-Hunter Series and if you don't read this one, you will miss some points in the first book in the series, "Night Pleasures" because Julian and Kyrian, the hero of "Night Pleasures" were best friends in ancient Greece. And let me tell you, no matter the het stuff, the Dark-Hunters Series is the "OHMYGOSH-stuff", really :D

So, all in all, I would give it 3,5 stars. Good as a prequel but I don't think I would have bought it if it was just a stand-alone book. ...more

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Sep 16, 2010 Thenia rated it really liked it

Shelves: series, paranormal, romance, reviewed, magic, 2010

It's been a long loooong while since I read this one, but if I remember correctly it was my introduction to the complex Dark-Hunter world.

If memory serves, Julian was cursed to be a sex slave a few thousand years ago and is sick and tired of being treated as an object. Grace, summons him as a joke one night when she's drunk, really not expecting him to actually pop out, ready to, ahem, serve her, but there he is, no matter how begrudgingly.

To his surprise, she doesn't treat him like an object an ...more

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Feb 16, 2009 Netanella rated it it was ok

Shelves: dark-hunter, author-sherrilyn-kenyon

Crappy. I did not like this one - even after I suspended judgment to get into the plot of the novel, the author just kept heaping inanity upon absurdity. The PhD-in-History best friend who makes a living playing psychic palm reader for tourists ... the ridiculous set up by which the hero is saved from the book ... the literal deux ex machina that puts everything right in the end. Crap, crap, crap.

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