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Epic in scope and length, Sherrilyn Kenyon's latest offering has everything. I mean that in the most literal way. Absolutely everything. Eleven thousand years of ... well ... What would you like? If it's fantasy, sexual, violent, weird ... it's here. My reality has been a real drag lately, so despite the fact that I had stopped reading Ms. Kenyon's books a while back, I got this. Actually, to be fair, I forgot that I had pre-ordered it months ago, so when it showed up on my Kindle, I said "Oh, lookie here. Ooh, and it's a long one. Yummy."

Thing is, I'd stopped buying her books. They had become so much the same, I figured rather than spend money on a new one, I could reread an earlier one. Save a few dollars. Get the same kicks.

Styxx isn't one of her cookie cutter, interchangeable books. Like Acheron, this is a big book in every way. I actually listened to it on Audible rather than reading it because my eyes don't do well on very long books, and now that Audible.com is owned by Amazon, you get a big discount on many audiobooks you already own on Kindle. Then you can follow the bouncing ball in your Kindle while a narrator reads to you. As an audiobook, it's 31 hours of listening. The narrator is overall good, but I am not sure why some Atlantean Goddesses and Greek gods and demigods have Cockney accents. Just wondering, is all.

Styxx lets you spend serious time in those golden olden days of yore. It's enough to make you glad you don't really live then and there.

So, what will you find in Styxx?

Sex, for one. A hefty dollop, though oddly, not quite as proportionately much as many of her lesser books. It's there, but it's not the most prominent feature of the book. Still, you won't feel deprived. There's plenty ... but it's not the only thing.

The most prominent feature of the book is torture and violent rape. Male-on-male rape. Agonizing torture, sex slavery, more torture, whippings, serious chains and bondage, straight up child abuse and cruelty, child rape (I sincerely hope that isn't your thing). It's all there, a cornucopia of perversion. Keeps you turning pages. In CinemaScope and surround sound. Name your hottest S & M fantasy. This book has got it. Lots of it, whatever it may be.

Oh, I almost forgot about the drugs. Them too.

Chains. Whips. Brands. Bondage. Rape. Torture. And some fairly standard sex too, just for the contrast. Love, also.

And the ever-popular war. There are some excellent, well-written battle scenes. Some of the best writing in the book is devoted to military maneuvers. She also provides (as usual) a substantial amount of pseudo-history, as well as Sherrilyn Kenyon's special brand of "she made it up herself, really she did" mythology. She does it so well you think it must be based on something other than her imagination, but it has no basis in fact. Her ability to create things that feel very real is one of her strongest abilities as an author.

She give this book something she has never really given in any of the many books in the series I've read. True, there were hints, but this time, she lets it hang out.

Sherrilyn Kenyon is witty and clever. Her humor tends to the dark end of funny, but it's there. Much of the wit falls into the category "Easter eggs," hidden jokes for those in the know. She makes literary and movie references that, if you notice them, make you stop and say ... "Hey, wait minute ... that's from ..."

It was when Styxx, our hero, looks at the heavens and says "The old man was right" that I could no longer ignore it. This a very famous -- and favorite -- line from "The Magnificent Seven." My husband uses it as his email signature.

I couldn't let it pass, so I stopped reading and went to tell my husband, a man who can recite the entire script of "The Magnificent Seven" from memory. He and I discussed if it could be accidental and he said, "Not a chance" because that's as famous a movie line as any, up there with "We don't need no stupid bodges ..." (NOT in the book). However, after that, I started consciously listening for hidden wit. I found plenty.

Underlying everything, Sherrilyn Kenyon has a wicked sense of humor. I love that in an author. I will forgive anything for cleverness, snappy dialogue and something to make me laugh. She made me laugh. More than once. It told me that she was not taking herself overly seriously, that she knew who her readers are. I was profoundly grateful.

You can miss the wit entirely if you aren't acquainted with the source of her little surprises. If you don't recognize where they come from, you won't get them. The book goes on fine without them but they are a nice bonus for those of us who do catch them as the fly by.

Favorite original quote from Styxx: "A quiet man is a thinking man. A quiet woman is an angry one."

I'm going to have to find somewhere to use that. Great line.

Plot? Oh, yes, the plot. If you read Acheron, it's the same plot, but from the other side of the mirror. This is, as Paul Harvey used to say, "The rest of the story." Styxx is Acheron's twin brother, the one who was supposed to have it easy, a spoiled princeling while Acheron struggled to survive. Not so, not so at all. Styxx's tortures exceed even Acheron's and last longer. Acheron is not the hero of the story. For followers of the Dark Hunter series, it may come as a painful shock to discover Acheron isn't always a good guy. His nasty, mean-spirited, closed-minded side gets a good airing in Styxx.

I started by saying I was really ready to escape from my reality when this book showed up. I might not have bought it if I hadn't pre-ordered it ... but it was fortuitous that it did. I needed a dose of "out of this world." You need to absolutely suspect your credulity to get into the book. Logic? Oh please. We don't need no stupid logic. Just let the book sweep you away, accept it for what it is and enjoy it. If you don't like explicit sex or violence, skip it. It's not for everyone. If you are homophobic, skip it. If you are a Conservative Christian, skip it. I suspect the audience for this is mainly women, but I'm sure there are men who would like it too.

A lot of the story doesn't really make much sense if you examine it closely. So my advice? Don't examine it closely. Also, it is very clear where the story is going next and that should be most interesting. Oh, this is not the book where the danger of Acheron and his mom ending the world as we know it is concluded. Not yet. More to come. Stay tuned!


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Styxx DarkHunter Novels Sherrilyn Kenyon 9781250029881 Books Reviews

For long time followers of this series, this book will be a roller coaster of emotion! The book starts off much like Acheron's story because Acheron and Styxx are twin brothers. We have read Archeron's side and understand why he hates Styxx so much; what we don't know is why Styxx hates Acheron. We have been lead to believe that Styxx is the bad person for over 20 books. Can and does Styxx have any redeeming qualities? Is he the the arrogant, spoiled prince that Acheron believes or is he looking at his brother with blinders on?

I'm not going to lie this book is filled with heart ache and abuse, much like Acheron. I cried at many points in this book because the author solicits very strong emotions. As in other books this book follows suit with the gods at play with the human lives and we see how tragic it can be. We also see the fight of a human man (Styxx) against those gods and those who seek to destroy him.

As per all of the Dark Hunter/Dream Hunter books, the characters are very well developed as are the the places in time and periods of time. The author put a tremendous amount of work into this book and it shows. Some parts of the book may indeed seem like deja vu, yet they are different because the memories are from Styxx. In this book we meet Styxx's Beth. She is an incredible heroine, much like the women in the previous books. She is strong and independent and willing to look past the wrapper that is Styxx. Will their love be able to overcome all in this book or will the interference of the other meddling gods be too powerful?

Overall, this is my favorite book from Sherrilynn Kenyon. The story is very powerful, emotional and at times completely tragic.
I think this is the first time I've given Ms. Kenyon less than a 4. I love the Dark Hunter series - and all the novellas and Were/Dreamers books - and let's not talk about how Acheron is by far my favorite character, that is until Styxx. In Acheron I cried for him, for his situation and the unfairness of his life, and I was glad that at least he had his sister on his side. On this book I bleed for Styxx, he had it worse than Acheron and I think Ms. Kenyon used the -rape- factor by far too much in this book. I do believe she gives a good excuse as to why Styxx was physically abused so much but she went on and on with scenes that could have been avoided and the past of the book was dragged too much -with the element of rape being the most prominent factor of it.

Styxx's life was harsh, his father's expectations and doubts about his birth circumstances were heavy on him. His sister was an utter b-i-t-c-h, if I liked her in the first book in this one she has become one of my most hated characters of all times -she's worse than Voldemort and Dolores Umbridge mixed together. She was such a b-i-t-c-h and terrible unfair with Styxx, she was pitiful and resentful and the loved I felt she had for Ash in Acheron's book felt almost obsessive - as if she too couldn't avoid the want of wanting Acheron for herself. And let's not go to his uncle because next to his sister those two were horrible.

Styxx was gorgeous, his life as a soldier was my favorite aspect of the book, the way he was so fair with his army and nothing stopped the fact he was noble inside and outside. He was an old soul in a child's body and his relationship with his Master and later father figured was amazing. Styxx and Beth were lovely, one of the best couples from the Dark-Hunter series. I loved how even later, in present time, Styxx never complained about life and unfairness, he just kept going on loving Beth and his unborn child.

From the present part of the book, I loved Styxx and Urian's relationship. I loved Urian as a character and knowing who was his father made me love him a bit more. The fact he never pushed Styxx and respected him, never judging was one of the best aspects of the book.

The ending felt extremely rushed and I felt lost in occasions because so many things were going on and Ash was an as-s-h-ole for the most part of the book - if not the entire book - and Styxx was still suffering other's peoples hate on him. He just wanted to be free, free and alone even if he always hated being alone when he was a child. The fact I felt it was a rape-fest most of the book and the ending was extremely rushed took a lot of enjoyment of this book. I had to put it aside for a second because the rape scenes were a turn off -even if they weren't descriptive, the aftermath was always terrible to read.
Epic in scope and length, Sherrilyn Kenyon's latest offering has everything. I mean that in the most literal way. Absolutely everything. Eleven thousand years of ... well ... What would you like? If it's fantasy, sexual, violent, weird ... it's here. My reality has been a real drag lately, so despite the fact that I had stopped reading Ms. Kenyon's books a while back, I got this. Actually, to be fair, I forgot that I had pre-ordered it months ago, so when it showed up on my , I said "Oh, lookie here. Ooh, and it's a long one. Yummy."

Thing is, I'd stopped buying her books. They had become so much the same, I figured rather than spend money on a new one, I could reread an earlier one. Save a few dollars. Get the same kicks.

Styxx isn't one of her cookie cutter, interchangeable books. Like Acheron, this is a big book in every way. I actually listened to it on Audible rather than reading it because my eyes don't do well on very long books, and now that Audible.com is owned by , you get a big discount on many audiobooks you already own on . Then you can follow the bouncing ball in your while a narrator reads to you. As an audiobook, it's 31 hours of listening. The narrator is overall good, but I am not sure why some Atlantean Goddesses and Greek gods and demigods have Cockney accents. Just wondering, is all.

Styxx lets you spend serious time in those golden olden days of yore. It's enough to make you glad you don't really live then and there.

So, what will you find in Styxx?

Sex, for one. A hefty dollop, though oddly, not quite as proportionately much as many of her lesser books. It's there, but it's not the most prominent feature of the book. Still, you won't feel deprived. There's plenty ... but it's not the only thing.

The most prominent feature of the book is torture and violent rape. Male-on-male rape. Agonizing torture, sex slavery, more torture, whippings, serious chains and bondage, straight up child abuse and cruelty, child rape (I sincerely hope that isn't your thing). It's all there, a cornucopia of perversion. Keeps you turning pages. In CinemaScope and surround sound. Name your hottest S & M fantasy. This book has got it. Lots of it, whatever it may be.

Oh, I almost forgot about the drugs. Them too.

Chains. Whips. Brands. Bondage. Rape. Torture. And some fairly standard sex too, just for the contrast. Love, also.

And the ever-popular war. There are some excellent, well-written battle scenes. Some of the best writing in the book is devoted to military maneuvers. She also provides (as usual) a substantial amount of pseudo-history, as well as Sherrilyn Kenyon's special brand of "she made it up herself, really she did" mythology. She does it so well you think it must be based on something other than her imagination, but it has no basis in fact. Her ability to create things that feel very real is one of her strongest abilities as an author.

She give this book something she has never really given in any of the many books in the series I've read. True, there were hints, but this time, she lets it hang out.

Sherrilyn Kenyon is witty and clever. Her humor tends to the dark end of funny, but it's there. Much of the wit falls into the category "Easter eggs," hidden jokes for those in the know. She makes literary and movie references that, if you notice them, make you stop and say ... "Hey, wait minute ... that's from ..."

It was when Styxx, our hero, looks at the heavens and says "The old man was right" that I could no longer ignore it. This a very famous -- and favorite -- line from "The Magnificent Seven." My husband uses it as his email signature.

I couldn't let it pass, so I stopped reading and went to tell my husband, a man who can recite the entire script of "The Magnificent Seven" from memory. He and I discussed if it could be accidental and he said, "Not a chance" because that's as famous a movie line as any, up there with "We don't need no stupid bodges ..." (NOT in the book). However, after that, I started consciously listening for hidden wit. I found plenty.

Underlying everything, Sherrilyn Kenyon has a wicked sense of humor. I love that in an author. I will forgive anything for cleverness, snappy dialogue and something to make me laugh. She made me laugh. More than once. It told me that she was not taking herself overly seriously, that she knew who her readers are. I was profoundly grateful.

You can miss the wit entirely if you aren't acquainted with the source of her little surprises. If you don't recognize where they come from, you won't get them. The book goes on fine without them but they are a nice bonus for those of us who do catch them as the fly by.

Favorite original quote from Styxx "A quiet man is a thinking man. A quiet woman is an angry one."

I'm going to have to find somewhere to use that. Great line.

Plot? Oh, yes, the plot. If you read Acheron, it's the same plot, but from the other side of the mirror. This is, as Paul Harvey used to say, "The rest of the story." Styxx is Acheron's twin brother, the one who was supposed to have it easy, a spoiled princeling while Acheron struggled to survive. Not so, not so at all. Styxx's tortures exceed even Acheron's and last longer. Acheron is not the hero of the story. For followers of the Dark Hunter series, it may come as a painful shock to discover Acheron isn't always a good guy. His nasty, mean-spirited, closed-minded side gets a good airing in Styxx.

I started by saying I was really ready to escape from my reality when this book showed up. I might not have bought it if I hadn't pre-ordered it ... but it was fortuitous that it did. I needed a dose of "out of this world." You need to absolutely suspect your credulity to get into the book. Logic? Oh please. We don't need no stupid logic. Just let the book sweep you away, accept it for what it is and enjoy it. If you don't like explicit sex or violence, skip it. It's not for everyone. If you are homophobic, skip it. If you are a Conservative Christian, skip it. I suspect the audience for this is mainly women, but I'm sure there are men who would like it too.

A lot of the story doesn't really make much sense if you examine it closely. So my advice? Don't examine it closely. Also, it is very clear where the story is going next and that should be most interesting. Oh, this is not the book where the danger of Acheron and his mom ending the world as we know it is concluded. Not yet. More to come. Stay tuned!