** spoiler alert ** *Contains detailed sex scenes*

Alright, while I do love this series I have to say this is probably my least fave book. There’s just something about it that I don’t quite like. The storyline itself is really good but I feel like I’ve come to expect a bit more from Sherrilyn Kenyon. This definitely isn’t her best work.
First off I need to say that I’m finding it difficult to keep up with the forever changing time setting of this series. Most series that feature a different set of main characters follow a continuing time frame. One book is set after another and so on, but with this one it’s different. You’ll have one book that’s set at one time and then the one after it is set a year later and then the next one is set at the same time as the first book. In both Night Embrace (#2) and Kiss of the Night (#4) the main guys actually have the same conversation, so you get to see it on both ends before this story continues. And yet there’s a book in between them that’s set weeks after them. This book that I’ve just read is even set years before the first book in the series. It just doesn’t make sense to me. It’s confusing and pointless in my mind. Have different characters for each book but don’t jump back and forth in time. It’s annoying and frustrating! (I’m ranting, I know, but I find this gets to me a lot).

In the beginning I found that I really didn’t like Arik. For a guy with supposedly no emotions he was rather selfish. I feel like his relationship with Megeara wasn’t right in the beginning. Basically he intrudes on her dreams and becomes her lover. Obviously it’s a dream, but still....To her it’s not real at all and yet even though it’s a dream there is something relatively ‘real’ about it, she just isn’t aware of it. The fact that he has made his way into her dream when that’s all she thinks it is seems rather deceiving. To me he seemed like some crazy stalker, who was willing to risk even her life to be with her in the flesh. And it wasn’t even in a romantic I’m-in-love-with-her-I-need-to-be-with-her way. He just wanted to screw her for real. Granted over time I did warm to him a little bit as he actually began to feel and truly care, but the knowledge of how he was in the beginning of the story stayed with me.
And Megeara? She wasn’t really that interesting of a heroine. She was rather bland and for the most part I didn’t feel one way for another about her. She just was.
The romance was alright, although there was nothing about it exceptional or that really stuck out to me. Actually to be honest, it was probably the most boring romance of all the books in the series so far.

There were only three things that I actually loved and made the book worth reading and those were called Solin, Tory and Katra. It was nice to see Katra again and Solin really was a great guy. I thought he was funny and I actually liked the bantering and humour between him and Arik. There was a bit of a spark between him and Katra, and if I wasn’t aware that Katra ends up with someone named Sin, I’d really be vying for them two.
As for Tory, she was really cool for a 15 year old. She was funny and level headed to a point where it wasn’t too much; she also had a sense of humour and funny side. Since I’ve learned that she will go on to be the woman that steals the lovely Ash’s heart, I loved having the chance to see her now. It was great.