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Dark-Hunter #13

Dream Chaser

Hades doesn't often give second chances....

Xypher has one month on Earth to redeem himself through one good deed or be condemned to eternal torture in Tarturus. But redemption means little to a demigod who only wants vengeance on the one who caused his downfall.Until one day in a cemetery....

Simone Dubois is a medical examiner with a real knack for the job. Those who are wrongfully killed appear to her and help her find the evidence the police need to convict their killers. But when a man appears and tells her that she's more than just a psychic, she's convinced he's insane.Now the fate of the world hangs in her hands....

It was bad enough when just the dead relied on her. Now's there's the seductive Dream-Hunter Xypher who needs Simone's help in opening a portal to the Atlantean hell realm to fight insatiable demons. The future of mankind is at stake - and so is her life. The only question now is: Who is the bigger threat: the demons out to kill her, or the man who has left her forever changed?

359 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 5, 2008

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Sherrilyn Kenyon

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464 reviews23 followers
January 18, 2013
Xypher diberi kesempatan kedua oleh Hades untuk bebas selama satu bulan. Tujuan Xypher adalah balas dendam kepada Satara, adik Stryker, atas perbuatannya selama ini kepada Xypher. Takut akan rencana Xypher, Satara mengutus seorang demon untuk membunuh sang skotos.

Simone Dubois memiliki kemampuan unik seperti dapat melihat apa yang tak dapat dilihat oleh manusia biasa. Mendatangi sebuah tempat kejadian membuatnya bertemu dengan Xypher dan demon yang memasang gelang pada lengannya.

"Who the hell are you?"
He glanced at the bracelet on his wrist, then snatched at it as if trying to jerk it off. "Xypher, and you are?"
"Pissed off. You wrecked my car, shoved me around, and area a complete and utter dickhead."
"Dear God," he said dryly, "what a mouthful - your mom must have really wanted a son. Mind if I cal you 'Pissed' for short? The rest of that is just too much to say every time I want your attention."

Pertemuan keduanya bisa dibilang lucu dan penuh aksi. Saat membaca buku ini, aku gak heran kenapa Xypher sangat ingin membunuh Satara. Xypher yang tadinya keras seperti es, perlahan-lahan mencair dan ingin melindungi Simone.

Chemistry antara kedua karakter cukup terasa walaupun awalnya mereka berantem melulu, tapi akhirnya mereka dapat saling memahami. Aku suka karakter utamanya yang tough dan gak lemah hati. Hahahahhaha..

Suka dengan karakter pendukungnya seperti Jesse, hantu yang mati di tahun 80an, jadi banyak hal-hal 80an yang dibahas. Hehehehe.. Ada Tate, squire sekaligus teman kepolisiannya Simone. Ada Jaden, aku gak tahu apakah SK akan menerbitkan buku khusus cerita Jaden. Ada hal yang menarik tentang karakter ini. Lalu ada gallu dan demon. Gak tahu sih SK mau bawa cerita Dark-Hunter ini ke mana =P

Dan dicerita ini Acheron muncul. Kyaaaaaa~

“While I respect suicidal tendencies on most days, you’d do well to remember who you’re addressing and, more to the point, what I can do to you. No one says you have to go back to Tartarus in one piece.”

Cukup banyak karakter dari buku sebelumnya yang muncul seperti Katra dan Sin, Fang, Wren, dan sebagainya. Kangen sih sama cerita yang memang menceritakan para Dark-Hunter. Tapi karena banyak karakter baru muncul, jadi penasaran juga >,<

Overall, aku suka sama ceritanya walaupun ending-nya agak gimanaaaaa gitu. Kurang seru sih, berharap Xypher bertarung sampai tetes darah terakhir #lebay. Suka sama percakapan karakter-karakternya.

Dan selanjutnya adalah buku Acheron. Semoga aku dikuatkan untuk membaca buku mengenai cerita masa lalu Acheron yang pastinya penuh luka :'(
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352 reviews19 followers
September 23, 2013
Waooww bukannya Xypher ini dream hunter yang dieksekusi karena hobi menyebarkan mimpi buruk pada manusia sampai manusia jadi gila dan bunuh diri terus dijebloskan di tartarus, dibebaskan sama Kat atas perjanjian Hades dengan batas waktu sebulan dan membantu melawan iblis keluarganya Sin ??? #panjang. ngos ngosan

Yap dan setelah saya baca, ternyata benar. Baru kali ini aku nemu lelaki yang sama sekali kaku dan nggak punya rasa humor ya cuma Xypher ini.
Well jadi perbuatan menteror manusia sampai gila itu ternyata perbuatannya Satara, cuman Xypher yang saat itu dibutakan muslihat Satara jadi bersedia menanggung segala perbuatannya si bitchy kedua itu.

Xypher yang secara kebetulan menolong Simone-perempuan yang bergelut dibidang forensik- entah kenapa ditangannya terpasang gelang yang nggak bisa dilepas. Di tangan Simone juga. Usut punya usut itu gelang dipakai Satara untuk membunuh Xypher soalnya dia paranoid Xypher yang dikasih kesempatan kedua selama sebulan sama Hades berniat membunuhnya.
Mereka juga diburu sama demon demon yang diperintah Satara.

Jadi Xypher yang setengah dewa memang berniat menarik Satara ke Tartarus. Dia dendam banget, Satara juga yang membuatnya menjadi Skotos.

Biasa aja sih cerita Xypher tapi unik juga sih. love xypher.
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