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The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1)

Gena Showalter

Start date: June 1, 2011

Finish date: June 30, 2011

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May 23, 2010 Lady Jayne *~*The Beach Bandida*~* rated it really liked it

Shelves: series, reviewed, owned-read, romance-paranormal

(4 Stars)

Ooohhh!!! Yummily sexy cover! That was my first reaction. ^_^ Seriously. Love the covers in this series.

The Darkest Night, the first book of the Lords of the Underworld series, is my first Gena Showalter book. I really liked it but wasn’t completely captured by it. I haven’t been hooked yet like I am with J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood. I’m putting it out there – I just LOOOVVEEE those Brothers!!! Okay? Bias, outted. Though, to be fair, I wasn’t completely addicted to the BDB unti ...more

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Apr 24, 2018 Lindsay rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2018, audiobook, 3stars, paranormal-romance

2.5 stars

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Nov 20, 2008 Not Now...Mommy's Reading rated it it was ok

Shelves: paranormal-romance, lords-of-the-underworld-series

It started out interesting enough: Six immortals who have been cursed to host within themselves the demons they set loose upon the earth as an act of rebellion towards the gods. Okay, sounds good. Got a bit of mythology thrown in...right up my alley. Buuuut...the romance starts and herein lies my problem. Just like the BDB and most of the other paranormals featuring badder than bad heroes - this guy made me want to vomit with his over the top "mush" when it came to his heroine. I have no issue w ...more

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Jan 17, 2022 Netanella rated it liked it

Shelves: 2022-january-reading-challenges, paranormal-romance

Rating is somewhere between a 2 and 3, but since I'm feeling vague and generous tonight, up to a 3 it goes.

PNR used to be my thing, about 10 years ago. Not so much now, but when I spotted this series that's been aging on my giant TBR pile as the pick for the annual read-a-thon over at Series Overload of Series, I thought now's my chance to jump back in to the mix. I've read and liked Gina Showalter in the past before - I believe it was her Alien Huntress series.

So the series is about a posse of ...more

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