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The League: Nemesis Rising #3.5
Fire and Ice
Livia is a Vistan princess who is to be married to an ambassador from a neighboring galaxy--a brutal man, many years her senior. She knows that the one thing he values in her is her virginity, and in a last-ditch effort to escape the fate her father has decreed for her, she sets out to seduce the first man she can find. Adron Quiakides was once a fierce League assassin. Now he lives in constant pain from wounds suffered years earlier at the hands of a madman. When Livia approaches him in a darkened bar, he willingly falls for her seduction. But when he feels the warmth of her healing touch he knows that he can't let her go. With her in his arms, he is free of pain, both body and soul.
FIRE & ICE - Originally published in a stand alone ebook in 1998. Currently available in the OUT OF THIS WORLD anthology that features all the short stories Sherri wrote for Penguin.
FIRE & ICE - Originally published in a stand alone ebook in 1998. Currently available in the OUT OF THIS WORLD anthology that features all the short stories Sherri wrote for Penguin.
100 pages, ebook
First published June 1, 2001
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New York Times and international bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon is a regular at the #1 spot. With legions of fans known as Paladins (thousands of whom proudly sport tattoos from her series and who travel from all over the world to attend her appearances), her books are always snatched up as soon as they appear on store shelves. Since 2004, she had placed more than 80 novels on the New York Times list in all formats including manga and graphic novels. Her current series are: Dark-Hunters, Chronicles of Nick and The League, and her books are available in over 100 countries where eager fans impatiently wait for the next release. Her Chronicles of Nick and Dark-Hunter series are soon to be major motion pictures while Dark-Hunter is also being developed as a television series. Join her and her Paladins online at MySherrilyn.com and www.facebook.com/mysherrilyn
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New York Times and international bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon is a regular at the #1 spot. With legions of fans known as Paladins (thousands of whom proudly sport tattoos from her series and who travel from all over the world to attend her appearances), her books are always snatched up as soon as they appear on store shelves. Since 2004, she had placed more than 80 novels on the New York Times list in all formats including manga and graphic novels. Her current series are: Dark-Hunters, Chronicles of Nick and The League, and her books are available in over 100 countries where eager fans impatiently wait for the next release. Her Chronicles of Nick and Dark-Hunter series are soon to be major motion pictures while Dark-Hunter is also being developed as a television series. Join her and her Paladins online at MySherrilyn.com and www.facebook.com/mysherrilyn
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October 17, 2011
Like all of the League novels A-M-A-Z-I-N-G
This short novella is a perfect glance into the League Universe. It took me ages to actually pick this up and now looking back. I have no clue why.
The Plot:9/10
I thought this was the perfect type of plot for a romance novella; it was fast, believable and the League as a setting made you believe it could actually happen. I did not like how after sleeping with Livia once Adron realised he was in love and vice versa, I did not like how everything resolved perfectly in the end. But other than that, the novella was great.
The Writing: 8/10
I actually don’t have much to say here. So, I decided to leave you with the first sentence, which completely hooked me.
I mean for a first sentence, that’s a good one right. Or is that just me?
The Characters: 7/10
I have a few self-help comments for each of the characters. Don’t get me wrong, I liked them fine, but they could be a tad but annoying at times, but the book and their love was perfect. I could not imagine them with different personalities.
My, self help comments:
Adron: See a therapist. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Talk to your family.
Livia: Two words. Run Away. You are a grown woman not a freaking minor.
This short novella is a perfect glance into the League Universe. It took me ages to actually pick this up and now looking back. I have no clue why.
The Plot:9/10
I thought this was the perfect type of plot for a romance novella; it was fast, believable and the League as a setting made you believe it could actually happen. I did not like how after sleeping with Livia once Adron realised he was in love and vice versa, I did not like how everything resolved perfectly in the end. But other than that, the novella was great.
The Writing: 8/10
I actually don’t have much to say here. So, I decided to leave you with the first sentence, which completely hooked me.
Adron Quiakides had never been the type of man one approached recklessly. Not if one wanted to live, anyway.
I mean for a first sentence, that’s a good one right. Or is that just me?
The Characters: 7/10
I have a few self-help comments for each of the characters. Don’t get me wrong, I liked them fine, but they could be a tad but annoying at times, but the book and their love was perfect. I could not imagine them with different personalities.
My, self help comments:
Adron: See a therapist. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Talk to your family.
Livia: Two words. Run Away. You are a grown woman not a freaking minor.
April 13, 2011
This short story from the League series tells the story of Nykyrian's oldest son, Adron. We heard him mentioned and got a glimpse of him in the Prologue of Born of Ice. But now, the former League assassin is terrible shape. He was badly and irrevocably injured on a mission years ago, and now he lives in constant pain. He is angry at the world and wishes he would have died, rather than survive in his weakened condition.
He is drinking himself into oblivion at a bar when Livia comes in. She is a princess, determined to lose her virginity, in order to escape marriage to a man decades of years older than her. She sets her sights on Adron and he is stricken by her innocence. He takes her up on her offer and is shocked to find she can ease his pain for short periods of time. When her father finds out about their tryst, Adron steps up to marry her to keep her from punishment. But their relationship is constantly tested by his injuries and his reaction to them.
I loved, loved, loved this story. The sex was sooo good. And Adron is transformed in front of us by Livia's love. The ending is great too. 5 stars.
*This short story can be found in the In Other Worlds (Were-Hunter, #0) anthology
He is drinking himself into oblivion at a bar when Livia comes in. She is a princess, determined to lose her virginity, in order to escape marriage to a man decades of years older than her. She sets her sights on Adron and he is stricken by her innocence. He takes her up on her offer and is shocked to find she can ease his pain for short periods of time. When her father finds out about their tryst, Adron steps up to marry her to keep her from punishment. But their relationship is constantly tested by his injuries and his reaction to them.
I loved, loved, loved this story. The sex was sooo good. And Adron is transformed in front of us by Livia's love. The ending is great too. 5 stars.
*This short story can be found in the In Other Worlds (Were-Hunter, #0) anthology
April 13, 2017
4.25 Stars!
My only complaint : It's TOO short!
My only complaint : It's TOO short!
August 7, 2012
4.5 Stars
I just loved this! Of course, it was the cliched suffering, virginal princess gets a HEA with a scarred, tortured hero. But it was sweet and beautiful and I really enjoyed it.
I just loved this! Of course, it was the cliched suffering, virginal princess gets a HEA with a scarred, tortured hero. But it was sweet and beautiful and I really enjoyed it.
"I wish I could be whole for you...I wish I could hold you and dance with you, take you in my arms and make love to you the way I want to."
"And I'm just grateful I have you at all. It's not your body or face that I love, Adron. It's your heart, your soul, and your mind."
August 17, 2024
Priala by som si mať o 300 strán viac tohto príbehu.
July 13, 2014
This is what I call a real Disney story. This was a prince and a princess who saved each other. The prince is Adron Quiakides. Yes, it's Nykyrian's oldest son and his heir. In Born of Ice, it was mentioned that Adron was severly hurt in a mission. He traded himself for a pregnant woman who was hostage by a madman. Adron was tortured and his brother Jayce found him and as rule of the League Assassin, you must kill if you find a League assassin who is crippled and disfigured as an honor to the assassin but as Jayce is his brother. He couldn't kill him. So he saved Adron but in return Adron hated Jayce for making him live through the agony for the rest of his life. Livia typpa Vista is a princess on a quest to save herself from an unwanted marriage. Her quest is to lose her virginity so that marriage doesn't happen. And that was the night when she found Adron in a bar who she doesn't know his identity or that he is the legendary commander. Those two soul clicked. Livia healed Adron as she is half Trisani and half human. It killed her but her mother who is a full Trisani saved her. It was a beautiful ending! I loved this story. Love the glimpses of the past. How the brothers grew up. Amazing short story.
July 16, 2012
This story follows Born of Night's Nykyrian and Kiara's oldest son, Adron. A League Assassin like his daddy, Adron becomes horribly wounded when he trades himself to a psychopath in place of a pregnant servant. Eight years of constant pain later, he's a real dick to say the least. Then he meets Livia, a naive princess on the run from marrying a man older than her father! Eww.
Sherrilyn tells us in her author's note that she originally wanted this to be a full length story but in order to get it published at the time (no one was buying futuristic scifi), she shortened it into a six chapter story. I personally would love to see her tackle these characters again and expand the story back into what she originally had it as. For me, far too short but a very touching story.
Sherrilyn tells us in her author's note that she originally wanted this to be a full length story but in order to get it published at the time (no one was buying futuristic scifi), she shortened it into a six chapter story. I personally would love to see her tackle these characters again and expand the story back into what she originally had it as. For me, far too short but a very touching story.
August 24, 2015
4.5 stars, only because it's so short. Otherwise it'd have been a 5.
This book is one of the most special and unique books I have ever read. I absolutely adored BOTH of the characters. The heroine was so giving and generous and flawless, and the hero was so incredibly heartbreakingly tortured. It's not very often that I add a short story to my 'heartbreakingly wonderful favourites' shelf, but I added this - so you can imagine how very amazing it must have been.
I'm definitely going to do a reread on it soon, God willing.
This book is one of the most special and unique books I have ever read. I absolutely adored BOTH of the characters. The heroine was so giving and generous and flawless, and the hero was so incredibly heartbreakingly tortured. It's not very often that I add a short story to my 'heartbreakingly wonderful favourites' shelf, but I added this - so you can imagine how very amazing it must have been.
I'm definitely going to do a reread on it soon, God willing.
August 27, 2019
Way too short, but I loved it! I haven't read any of the League books in probably a decade, so it's almost like the first time! I loved the plot and the sweet romance.
March 20, 2020
A short story about a scarred, tortured hero and a sheltered, rebellious heroine who are perfectly suited to each other.
Adron lives in constant pain after the torture he endured a number of years ago and has shut himself off from the outside world and his family. Livia is a princess who refuses to obey her father who wants to marry her off to a man older than himself and runs off in a desperate effort to thwart his plans.
The two meet and end up saving one another, after overcoming the various obstacles in their way.
Interesting story in the League universe and the first one of the second generation. The series continues with Born of Shadows which goes back to the first generation League.
Previous book reviews:
✦ Born of Ice (The League: Nemesis Rising #3) ~ ★★★★ (11/08/2014)
✦ Born of Fire (The League: Nemesis Rising #2) ~ ★★★★ (27/09/2012)
Adron lives in constant pain after the torture he endured a number of years ago and has shut himself off from the outside world and his family. Livia is a princess who refuses to obey her father who wants to marry her off to a man older than himself and runs off in a desperate effort to thwart his plans.
The two meet and end up saving one another, after overcoming the various obstacles in their way.
Interesting story in the League universe and the first one of the second generation. The series continues with Born of Shadows which goes back to the first generation League.
Previous book reviews:
✦ Born of Ice (The League: Nemesis Rising #3) ~ ★★★★ (11/08/2014)
✦ Born of Fire (The League: Nemesis Rising #2) ~ ★★★★ (27/09/2012)
August 1, 2017
=====>>>>> TOO TOO TOO SHORT <<<<<======
This was an AWESOME story, but WAY too short, I think it could have gotten a little more in the family lives and even a little more cute moment of the love that developed between the couple... but it didn't, which is such a lost opportunity... I can only hope they bring this couple back again in another story in the series but it wont be the same.
I can understand why Sherrilyn Kenyon made this into a short story but I really wish she hadn't... I would have even been happy with a couple of more chapters about how Livia and Adron's love for each other developed... I hate using my own imagination, that's why I love to read.
Anyway that's the main reason this book didn't become one I wanted to give the unrated 6th star. I just think it was TOO TOO SHORT and I SO BEYOND wanted more and I think SO MUCH MORE could have been added to the story... Especially when it came to the family part of the story.
This was an AWESOME story, but WAY too short, I think it could have gotten a little more in the family lives and even a little more cute moment of the love that developed between the couple... but it didn't, which is such a lost opportunity... I can only hope they bring this couple back again in another story in the series but it wont be the same.
I can understand why Sherrilyn Kenyon made this into a short story but I really wish she hadn't... I would have even been happy with a couple of more chapters about how Livia and Adron's love for each other developed... I hate using my own imagination, that's why I love to read.
Anyway that's the main reason this book didn't become one I wanted to give the unrated 6th star. I just think it was TOO TOO SHORT and I SO BEYOND wanted more and I think SO MUCH MORE could have been added to the story... Especially when it came to the family part of the story.
February 4, 2011
Wonderful novella in one of my favorite series! I've heard others wonder why Adron didn't get a full-length story, but I think this tale fit nicely in the novella size. Livia and Adron's love was joyous to behold, and the lengths Livia was willing to go to in order to save Adron's life was amazing and selfless, truly representing a perfect love. I love this whole world that Kenyon has built and I jump at the chance to be in it if only for a little while!
May 5, 2011
This was a really good story. I felt so bad for Adron. I have to say I didn't blame him for being bitter and angry. I have to say I wouldn't want to live like that. As for his anger for Jayce was misplace. Of course his brother couldn't kill him. I wouldn't be able to either.
It was a sweet and perfect ending.
It was a sweet and perfect ending.
July 6, 2014
A glimpse at the next generation of League members and a love that blooms in intrigue. Like father like son. Honor carries onward.
December 12, 2021
Like all your books they keep you captivated to keep turning the pages to see what exciting things come next.
February 9, 2021
Luego de leer Born of Ice, dije de perdidos al rio por lo que me lancé a Fire and Ice. Esta es una historia corta, muy, muy corta en mi opinión, por lo que no hay mucha trama y los secundarios casi ni aparecen. Está centrada en Adron, hijo de Nyk y Kiara, ex-asesino de la liga que por circunstancias de su trabajo su cuerpo tuvo que pagar un alto precio y está vivo de puro milagro pese a que quisiera no estarlo, y Livia, una virgen vistan que para huir de un matrimonio concertado se enrolla con Adron y que luego de saber por todo lo que ha tenido que pasar se niega a abandonarlo. Ella es una cosita dulce que quiere que Adron aprenda a amar la vida y que sabe que la única forma de salvarlo implica perderlo para siempre, mientras que Adron enfrenta un dilema aterrador entre matar a la mujer que ama como era su deseo o conservar solo una cáscara de ella para no perderla completamente.
January 27, 2020
This was seriously the sweetest story. I felt so terrible for Adron stuck in this endless world of debilitating pain, but I'm so glad this led to him meeting someone who could actually take it all away metaphorically and literally. Livia was a great match for him, especially because she stuck it out and did not put up with any of his grumpy bullsh*t. She was able to give his family their son and brother back all while giving him a life worth living. This was just so sweet and adorable, and I loved it.
I also loved seeing more of the Quiakides clan and getting to know Nyk and Kiara's children more. I just love that whole family.
I also loved seeing more of the Quiakides clan and getting to know Nyk and Kiara's children more. I just love that whole family.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 2, 2022
This story sizzles!
I love the male protagonist of the story: His name is Adron and he is the son of Nykyrian and Kiara, the protagonists of this series' first novel. In Born of Ice, his condition was alluded to once or twice, and I was curious to see whether he would recover from it or not. He was tortured by some criminal in the past and was saved by one of his brothers, only to endure never-ending pain from his wounds. It's great that he was still this bitter and hateful person, I think that added a lot of color into this story.
This was such a cute (and sexy) read. I enjoyed the relationship of Adron and Livia a lot.
I love the male protagonist of the story: His name is Adron and he is the son of Nykyrian and Kiara, the protagonists of this series' first novel. In Born of Ice, his condition was alluded to once or twice, and I was curious to see whether he would recover from it or not. He was tortured by some criminal in the past and was saved by one of his brothers, only to endure never-ending pain from his wounds. It's great that he was still this bitter and hateful person, I think that added a lot of color into this story.
This was such a cute (and sexy) read. I enjoyed the relationship of Adron and Livia a lot.
July 30, 2018
This short story is a part of The League series. It was great reading about Nykyrian Quiakides's son Adron. This short story was sweet and sexy! Adron and Livia's story is all about two very different characters needing love, and needing to be saved. It is a very different Sherrilyn Kenyon book that just melts your heart. Fire and Ice is probably my favorite League book, and I so wish it had been a full length novel. I just loved how these two characters interacted, and how Livia never gave up on Adron.
August 5, 2018
This story is about Nykyrian's son Adron and a princess. Adron was severely injured and is in constant pain, drinking himself into oblivion when Livia sits at his booth determined that he will be the one to take her virginity and save her from a horrible marriage. When they are discovered Adron claims her as wife saving her from her father's wrath. In turn she saves him by bringing him back to life. Great read, love this short.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 22, 2019
The story of Adron, the son of Nykyrian, lives in constant pain. having been tortured beyond belief to save a mother and child, he drinks to escape the fact that he will never again be fight with The League, and he will always live in unbearable pain. That is until he meets Livia.
Love comes in many ways, and never when expected. Every League member has a story that brings tears to your eyes. This one is no exception.
Love comes in many ways, and never when expected. Every League member has a story that brings tears to your eyes. This one is no exception.
August 14, 2017
Story of Adron, the son of Nykyrian (Nemesis) and Kiara, from the first book in the series, Born of Night.
Adron has been seriously injured (we learn the backstory of that in this novella) and cannot live a normal life. He obtains a wife somewhat by accident and determines to rid himself of her, but it doesn't go that way . . .
His lady love is Livia.
Adron has been seriously injured (we learn the backstory of that in this novella) and cannot live a normal life. He obtains a wife somewhat by accident and determines to rid himself of her, but it doesn't go that way . . .
His lady love is Livia.
December 11, 2021
For five years, Adron Quiakides has hated taking his next breath and neither the pain pills nor the alcohol he lived on gave him enough relief to change his mind. Guarded princess Livia typpa Vista was determined to thwart her father’s plan to marry her off to a letch 16years older than him. All she had to do was get rid of her pesky virginity. One hookup coming up!
Rating: 4.5stars
Rating: 4.5stars
December 27, 2021
I love Sherrilyn Kenyon and this short story did not disappoint. A quick read, you can read as a standalone as well if you are not familiar with the world or characters.
The characters are well developed and likeable, they interact really well even in such a short amount of pages.
Very much enjoyed and I look forward to more in the series.
The characters are well developed and likeable, they interact really well even in such a short amount of pages.
Very much enjoyed and I look forward to more in the series.
July 17, 2017
Adron and Livia story, together with Nyk and Sun's are my favourite Ligue series books.
I just wish that Serrilyn expended it to full book not only the meeting of them booth. I think Adron life story is good to tell.
Nevertheless I enjoyed immensely
I just wish that Serrilyn expended it to full book not only the meeting of them booth. I think Adron life story is good to tell.
Nevertheless I enjoyed immensely
May 19, 2019
wish it was a regular novel.
starting at the beginning where Adron & Jayce were kickin ass as assassins together...to the fateful brutal mission that gone wrong to then meeting Livia.
oh well....on ward to Born of Shadows.
starting at the beginning where Adron & Jayce were kickin ass as assassins together...to the fateful brutal mission that gone wrong to then meeting Livia.
oh well....on ward to Born of Shadows.
June 15, 2019
Have not read any of the books in this series and just grabbed this from my TBR pile.
A short sweet and semi-emotional read.
Liked both H's and how this ended.
Bit confused as to where this fits in which series. Nemeis or Legacy?
A short sweet and semi-emotional read.
Liked both H's and how this ended.
Bit confused as to where this fits in which series. Nemeis or Legacy?
August 2, 2020
Paper book, "In Other Worlds". I own.
First time reading.
Loved the League story about Adron and Livia. Livia was so very strong and Adron was very lucky to have her randomly pick him. His brooding and anger was nothing compared to Livia's strength.
First time reading.
Loved the League story about Adron and Livia. Livia was so very strong and Adron was very lucky to have her randomly pick him. His brooding and anger was nothing compared to Livia's strength.
September 1, 2023
Short story about the mysterious former assassin, Adron Quiakides. Eight years after he was miraculously saved from death, the horribly mutilated and suffering tremendous physical pain, Adron finds himself saving a damsel in distress.
Not what I was expecting but really an enjoyable read.
Not what I was expecting but really an enjoyable read.
May 11, 2024
I really love this author, love her other series. I was surprised how much I loved this book. It just flowed, I was never bored, no slow spots and I really loved the characters. I hated for it to end, so glad I read it.
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