I enjoyed the beginning, but when after the first 150 pages it suddenly turns into a rehashing of the previous two books that have been rather sloppily copy/pasted into this one it got tedious, Kenyon could have so easily shortened that bit and then spent some more time on making a more satisfying ending. I think I'll leave the series alone for now, and see if I ever feel the need to pick it up again, but for now it just feels like Kenyon are just churning out these books without putting any real effort into them anymore. Which is a pity, because this one started out with some promise. ( )

Dragonmark
By Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dark Hunter #26, Dragons Rising #1, Lords of Avalon #5

I usually am blown away by almost all of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s series except the Lords of Avalon series which I didn’t even know existed for the longest time because she wrote the series under the pseudonym of Kinley MacGregor. I’m not really sure what I didn’t like about it but I just was not that into it. I wasn’t so blown away by this book either. Don’t get me wrong! This was a great book but it just didn’t live up to the usual awesomeness of a Sherrilyn Kenyon book. I guess it is kind of unfair to her to rate this book lower than perfect just because I’ve grown to expect perfection from Sherrilyn.

This story still evoked a lot of emotions from me which is a good thing. It was a story of love and loss where the hero has to choose between having what he wants most in life or saving the world from destruction.

A lot of the story was about Morgen Le Fey, the evil queen of Camelot which ties into Sherrilyn’s Lords of Avalon series.

I would try to give a summary of the book but it was way too long and complicated to explain fully without writing pages and pages and maybe giving out spoilers. I can say that the book might have been a lot shorter if there wasn’t so much of previous book’s story’s included in this book. There were chapters of other books just inserted into this story. I mean, word for word like cut and pasted into this book. Sherrilyn put out a statement that explained that she did this because she felt it was pertinent to this story but I think she could have summarized it and it and we could have got the gist of it just as well.

Overall, I enjoyed this book and I look forward to the next book in the series.

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Sevin holds a grudge against her due to the harm her family caused his but it the attraction and being forced together on a Calling night changes things quickly. He does an about face and wants to claim and mate her but the Sons of Faunus have other plans for them both. Intrigue, sharing her with his brother Lucian, jealous humans. I was very surprised how easily she submitted to Sevin and his brother after the brutality she suffered previously.
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This is the same piece of the Dark-Hunter story as was told in Son of No One and Dragonbane told from a different point of view (with a few minor additions, maybe for variety). Additionally, this is not a Dark-Hunter book.

If Kenyon is out of ideas for the series, she should just stop writing it. It was readable but I wish I had not spent seven bucks on it. ( )