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Fantasy Lover (Dark-Hunter, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  214 reviews
Sales Rank: 1871
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0312979975
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780312979973
ASIN: 0312979975
Publication Date: January 2002
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Condition: GOOD COND USED PAPERBACK COVER GOOD PAGES GOOD THANKS
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Product Description
Dear Reader,
Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn't. And being cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior's day.
As a love-slave, I know everything about women. How to touch them, how to savor them, and most of all, how to pleasure them. But when I was summoned to fulfill Grace Alexander's sexual fantasies, I found the first woman in history who saw me as a man with a tormented past. She alone bothered to take me out of the bedroom and onto the world. She taught me to love again.
But I was not born to love. I was cursed to walk eternity alone. As a general, I had long ago accepted my sentence. Yet now I have found Grace--the one thing my wounded heart cannot survive without. Sure, love can heal all wounds, but can it break a two-thousand-year-old curse?
Julian of Macedon
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| Customer Reviews: Read 209 more reviews...
 Can we give negative stars? November 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Where to start? With the sexually repressed sex therapist? With the half-baked demi god sex-slave trapped in a book? Who is also the most whiny hero I've ever read? The barely researched history and even stupider and wrong details of Spartan life? The best friend tarot card reader who has two PhDs... one of them in Ancient History - not a specific era, mind you, but just Ancient History. Because that covers so little ground you can just roll it into one discipline. *rolls eyes* And who can also speak fluent Ancient Greek after only one semester of learning the language. Truly, the woman is a genius. *headdesk*
But no, what says everything about the writing of this silly little story is this: He licks her INNER EAR with HIS TONGUE!
Ow?!
Sherrilyn, I know what you were trying to say. But you're doing it wrong! As it is, a thousand ENT doctors would tell you how this is impossible and very, very painful if it was somehow managed. After they stopped laughing. And also, the entire breast does not swell then shrink into a nub. That's just anatomically impossible. The word you were searching for is 'nipple'. You're a romance writer, perhaps you should learn to use it.
 Grace and Julian November 8, 2008
Ok, I am not going to go into much detail because I see that has been done quite well. Grace's friend gives her a book and if the right words are said then a love slave will appear to grant your every desire for a short amount of time, enter Julian...the mistreated love slave cursed by the roman gods to spend eternity as a love slave. When he realizes Grace does not want him sexually he is astounded since he has been doing this for so long. When they realize there is a way to free Julian from the curse they set their course, during this time Grace falls in love with Julian...even knowing he will leave her when the curse is lifted.
***Ok, I gave this book a try because I have heard alot about it...Sherrilyn Kenyon is said to rival Kresley Cole. Well, after reading this book I can say that this does not even come close to the IMMORTALS AFTER DARK series. I just did not get a feel for Julian and Grace...after I read the book I didn't think about it again. It was not a horrible story, just unremarkable...I would not recommend this book. Are any of the others better???
 My First Book by this Author October 20, 2008
Cute, Romance novel, I found it to be a enjoyable way to pass the afternoon. Lots of my bookclub members recommended this series to me so I will go ahead and read the next book in the series. I have been told that each book just gets better and better and that I will fall in love with the series.
I could not get past the poor writing October 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a newcomer to the romance world. But it doesn't matter what is the "genre" that readers or publisher designate a book; if it is well written, I'll enjoy it. When I read the synopsis, I thought the blend of "fish out of water" and a smart heroine who rescues him was an interesting premise. Julian, the "fish out of water", son of Aphrodite, should have been the ideal hero. He was in FACT a hero, a general, a warrior. He had been cursed for centuries to be trapped in a scroll alive, listening, waiting, starving until someone conjures him out to sexually satisfy a woman for 1 month and then be trapped back into the scroll until the next woman calls on his services. He started off well. When conjured up by "sex" therapist Grace and her dippy pal Selena, Julian reacts coherently to the strangeness of the modern world. As he is being tutored by Grace to live in the present day, Julian, under the influence of Grace, becomes a mishmash of sensitive listener of the children's book Peter Pan (??), a Dr. Phil follower, animalistic PROTECTOR of his "woman", chick magnet, phallic man who is able to rip men's heads off and at the same time, tenderly clean house.
It is when we deal with Grace that the book gets ridiculous. There is nothing realistic or coherent about her character. A woman who had bad sex once is able to support herself as a therapist to help people with sexual problems??? A woman who is being threatened by a deranged stalker and despite warnings and protection from her super hero lover Julian gets into an elevator that is old and unreliable and doesn't SEE the wierdo in the elevator before she steps in????
The introduction of the other Greek Gods and Goddesses and the mystery of why Julian was cursed was the worst part of the book. Nothing made sense. Nothing held up. The dialog was terrible between the Gods and the main characters of the book, Julian and Grace.
I can almost forgive the dumbness of the characters, but I can't forgive the terrible writing. It's not funny enough to be a comic novel, not good enough to be an adult novel and as for romance, it is too jumpy, undeveloped, unbelievable to enrapture the reader, which is what romance is supposed to be about. Other favorable reviewers say that the author's writing improves, I don't know if I want to waster my time waiting for the improvement.
Cute and a good begining October 8, 2008
What I found with this series was this first book was cute but lacked some of the excitement of the later books. I think it's a good starting point for the series. I love how the other books build upon this first story. They only get better and better as you read on.
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