Book Review: Night Embrace - by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Synopsis: Night Embrace is the #4 in Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunters series. Also set in New Orleans, this book tells the story of Talon, an ancient Celt turned Dark-Hunter whom we met in Night Pleasures. Our hero meets Sunshine, a kooky artist-type one night when she is attacked by a bunch of soul-sucking Daimons. In the midst of the fight, he gets plowed by a runaway Mardi Gras float and Sunshine takes him back to her place to recover. Their one-night stand turns into something more as a couple of ancient gods with an ax to grind show up to come after Talon and his new girlfriend. We also get to meet some other Dark-Hunters in this one, including Zarek, who gets his own story in Dance With the Devil.

I didn't like Night Embrace quite as much as I liked Night Pleasures, but you get a lot of good character development with Zarek and Ash. You also get introduced to Wulf, another Dark-Hunter whose story is told in Kiss of the Night. And the action sequences in this one are supercool. The romance just wasn't as heart-rending as the other books in the series, but the plot is so interesting and the interplay between the Dark-Hunters and Ash and the Squires makes this novel an important part of the series as a whole.

I gave this one 4 stars in my LibraryThing