false 4 2 false false Sun Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 06:27:04 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 08:31:11 -0700 2008 The Darkest Pleasure catches up to Reyes and Danika's story. You don't really get to know Reyes in the previous books so I wasn't terribly interested in him and thought this one would be dull, but actually he's a great character and I really liked him.

Danika's on the run because Aeron, Keeper of Wrath, must kill her and her family on order of the Gods and has been driven mad by this unfulfilled bloodlust. After being assaulted by two Hunters she kills one but is captured by them. They convince her to let the Lords take her back to their fortress so she can learn all about them and relay it back to the Hunters.

Her will falters in the presence of Reyes, however, and she soon finds her attraction for him making her determination waver. The Lords discover that Danika sees Heaven and Hell in her dreams and is very important to their cause, and realise why the Gods want her dead.

Reyes in the Keeper of Pain and has been infatuated by Danika since first seeing her. He's a complex, intense man, his demon driving him to slice up his own body, jump from the top of the fortress, and seek pleasure in pain. I think he may have become my favourite of the three, especially for the profound respect he has for Danika. She, in turn, is not as fully fleshed out but her motivations are believable - the most annoying thing was the constant lip nibbling, a la Christine Feehan (I can never read that gesture without thinking of Feehan).

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