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Sunstroked (Tales of the Darkworld #6)

by Lex Valentine (Goodreads Author)

3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 · rating details · 79 ratings · 8 reviews

When wildling Corey Green discovers his mate is Seth Dylan, a tough as nails, dour werewolf from the McCallan clan, he thinks his life is set. However, Seth's not out and doesn't know if he wants to be. A pivotal sexual encounter between the men has Seth running scared and leaves Corey broken hearted. The men meet again nearly two years later and this time Seth's out but C...more

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Published October 7th 2010 by Pink Petal Books

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Aug 23, 2011 Elisa Ramblings added it

I remember Fire Season and I remember also that my feeling was Lex Valentine is quite an expert on the “classical” paranormal romance, and for classical I mean het romance. This is not a critique, on the contrary, this is probably one of the few time I read an M/M romance where the het couples are as much interesting as the gay ones.

The Tales of the Darkworld series is mixed, I believe that in the past 6 books, 2 are gay and 4 are het, and even if I read only the 2 gay novels, judging by the fem...more I remember Fire Season and I remember also that my feeling was Lex Valentine is quite an expert on the “classical” paranormal romance, and for classical I mean het romance. This is not a critique, on the contrary, this is probably one of the few time I read an M/M romance where the het couples are as much interesting as the gay ones.

The Tales of the Darkworld series is mixed, I believe that in the past 6 books, 2 are gay and 4 are het, and even if I read only the 2 gay novels, judging by the females in the stories I read, the other 4 books have to be very good as well. They are not overtly original paranormal romances, if not for the odd pairs, they are more good and ordinary stories whose strength is mostly on the characters, both main than supporting. There is actually no negative characters at all, at least not in the 2 books I read, and even the antagonist to Seth and Corey’s love (Will, that BTW was first Corey’s lover and than Seth), is actually quite nice, and I wouldn’t mind to read a story with him.

When I was talking about “odd” pair, it was not much about Seth, who is a werewolf (even if his cousin is mated with a dragon), but more about Corey, a wildling, i.e. a fae. When Seth meets Corey, the wildling is a sunny creature, very open and friendly, and more than ready to help Seth testing his sexuality; Seth has always questioned being gay, but before Corey he had no proofs. After the meeting, a little scared, a little elated by the discovery, Seth runs away to test his newfound sexual freedom, leaving a disrupted Corey trying to understand what he did to scare away his mate… yes since, for once, the shapeshifter with the best “nose”, was unable to recognize the mate bond, he mistook it for an aftershave!

That is what I was saying, even if the elements the author used for her story are quite ordinary, she put them together in an original way, and the story is a mix of romance, comedy and erotica, all of them balanced in the right way to not take over the others.

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Apr 02, 2011 Wave rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

4.25 stars

Sunstroked is book 6 in the Tales of the Darkworld but can be read as a standalone. I loved Book 3, Fire Season so much I was anxious to read Sunstroked, the only other M/M book so far in the series, to see if the story was as engaging.

Sunstroked opens in dramatic fashion in the cemetery chapel where Seth Dylan”s cousin Sair, a werewolf, was getting married to Marius Granville, known as Big Fang, a vampire. Seth, a were, was sitting outside the chapel, upset and depressed at losing Sai...more 4.25 stars

Sunstroked is book 6 in the Tales of the Darkworld but can be read as a standalone. I loved Book 3, Fire Season so much I was anxious to read Sunstroked, the only other M/M book so far in the series, to see if the story was as engaging.

Sunstroked opens in dramatic fashion in the cemetery chapel where Seth Dylan”s cousin Sair, a werewolf, was getting married to Marius Granville, known as Big Fang, a vampire. Seth, a were, was sitting outside the chapel, upset and depressed at losing Sair his only anchor in a world that appeared to have rejected him, when he met Cory Green, a fae or wildling. The attraction between them was instantaneous and Seth couldn’t understand it since he hadn’t even admitted to himself that he was gay, but Corey recognized how important Seth would be in his future. When Corey kissed him Seth goes up in flames and he and Corey have oral sex on the cemetary grounds. Seth told Corey that he had never had sex with a man and they spent the night at Corey’s home correcting that particular deficiency, but in the morning when Corey woke up Seth was gone and the sunlight left his world.

These two have a very complex romance in a world where almost every one has a fated mate and it took a while to get going, but when it did it was worth all the heartbreak.

I really liked Sunstroked because Lex Valentine knows how to weave wonderful paranormal tales. Corey and Seth were well drawn and had to overcome tough obstacles before they could acknowledge each other as mates. Seth’s life had been very difficult since the death of his parents, and Corey became so depressed after Seth vanished that he was no longer the same man he was when he and Seth first met, and although Seth pleaded for a second chance the hardest thing for Corey to accept was that Seth didn’t know who he, Corey, was.

I love this world that Lex Valentine created and the protagonists were well drawn – my only regret is that the story was so short that there was not enough opportunity to explore the characters’ lives as much as I would have liked. When I read Fire Season, an incredible story about two dragons, it blew me away, and while Sunstroked was good and I enjoyed it, I thought it lacked the excitement, intensity, complexity and heat that made Fire Season such a wonderful book, although it had a lot of ‘moments’. I know I shouldn’t compare the two books because they are so different, but I suppose it’s inevitable. Also, I thought that there was a lot of sex for such a short book, but that’s just me. The other characters were all three dimensional from Sair, Colin, Big Fang and another vampire, Will North, who had a prominent role in the book.

If you love stories about otherworldlty creatures with an actual plot and lots of sex, or are a fan of Lex Valentine, then Sunstroked will definitely appeal. Recommended.

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Nov 21, 2010 Lexi Ander rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: mm-shifters, mm-series

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This is my fist book by Lex and it also happened to be a book in the middle of a series.

Seth is a werewolf who has been in the closet all of his life. Corey is a wildling from the other side of the veil. Corey knows that Seth is his mate but Seth is so far in the closet, he is not paying attention to all the signals. When Seth stays the night with Corey he knows that he will never go back in the closet but he sneaks away in the morning leaving Corey alone.

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Nov 20, 2010 Cori rated it 2 of 5 stars

This one just felt like it was following a specific romance novel formula. A bit too much introspection for my liking as well - there would be a spoken sentence then two paragraphs about how they were feeling. I just couldn't get into it.

I'm sure some people will really enjoy this story - it just wasn't for me.

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Oct 16, 2011 Andre rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: supernatural-romance

Romantic, that's what describes the book best. To bad that the author usually doesn't write on a couple further in a book.

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Apr 04, 2011 Brenda (b) rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 1-ebooks, paranormal, m-m, 2-2011-read

Colin's assistant, Corey is severely depressed and he's lost the sunny personality because his mate doesn't want him. He's reunited with Sair's cousin Seth, but they both have things they have to come to terms with before they can be together. I enjoyed these characters and thought they worked well together.

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Oct 09, 2012 Joanna Bruskin rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: angst, hot, shifter, vamps, fantasy, 1-hour-read-or-less, mm

Under-developed

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About Lex Valentine

Lex has been writing ever since she could hold a pencil. A few years ago, she got caught up writing in an online paranormal serial story. As she began to write more and more, fans of the story told her she needed to submit her work to publishers. After starting a blog, more people ,including some authors, began to encourage her to submit her writing. That is how this all began.

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