Night Pleasures

Sherrilyn Kenyon

May 2008 · Dark-Hunter Novels Book 1 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie

About this audiobook

The first installment of Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series, Night Pleasures.

The Dark-Hunters are ancient warriors who have sworn to protect mankind and the fate of the world is in their hands. . .

He is solitude. He is darkness. He is the ruler of the night. Yet Kyrian of Thrace has just woken up handcuffed to his worst nightmare: An accountant. Worse, she's being hunted by one of the most lethal vampires out there. And if Amanda Devereaux goes down, then he does too. But it's not just their lives that are hanging in the balance. Kyrian and Amanda are all that stands between humanity and oblivion. Let's hope they win.

Ratings and reviews

This is probably the 10th time I've read this book. Well, this time I listened... Sherrilyn's Dark Hunter Series rates up there in the top 3 of any category you can put her, the author, or her books in. Sherrilyn's earliest writing is her best (even Kinley) but she's not capable of producing a bad read. But this one is my absolute favorite. Sherrilyn's strength is putting the words together to describe feelings. I can feel her characters. I can sympathize and empathize. I feel like I'm right there in THAT place and time. I didn't love the audio. The accents didn't feel right (to me). The voice talent didn't know the characters or the book. The emotions were not portrayed well at all. And the audio was super rushed in parts. Personally, I'd rather an author just use his/her voice for all characters but use the appropriate inflections, pauses, strength in tone or softness of tone to allow the reader to paint their own pictures. Don't get me wrong, it's still a great audio book and worth every penny.

I love this series with a passion. The mythos is very interesting. The characters have their own stories that are revealed in other books in the series. Spoiler: Nick's story comes full circle in dragon mark, sworn, stygian. There are a lot of references in those books I think advid readers whom have not yet read them will have an 'oh snap' moment. When they get a chance to read/listen to them.

The narrator is absolutely awful.. Every voice she does sounds the exactly the same.. Some poor rendering of a deep southern accent done very very very badly

About the author

Sherrilyn Kenyon has placed more than 50 novels on the New York Times Bestseller list. Her current series include The Dark-Hunters, the The Dark-Hunter manga, Deadman’s Cross, The League, the Dream-Hunter novels, and the Chronicles of Nick.

Carrington MacDuffie is a singer and recording artist. The recipient of multiple Earphones Awards and six Audi nominations, she has read novels by Jackie Collins, Anna Quindlen's Still Life with Bread Crumbs, and Christopher Buckley's Florence of Arabia.