Cloak & Silence Author: Visit Amazon's Sherrilyn Kenyon Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1491089288 | Format: PDF
Cloak & Silence Description
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''Kenyon's writing is brisk, ironic, sexy, and relentlessly imaginative.'' --
Boston Globe praise for the author
--This text refers to the
Audio CD
edition.
About the Author
In the past three years, New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon has claimed the #1 spot sixteen times. This extraordinary bestseller continues to top every genre she writes. With more than 25 million copies of her books in print in over 100 countries, her current series include: The Dark-Hunters, The League, Chronicles of Nick, and Belador. Since 2004, she has placed more than 50 novels on the New York Times list in all formats including manga. The preeminent voice in paranormal fiction, with more than twenty years of publishing credits in all genres, Kenyon not only helped to pioneer, but define the current paranormal trend that has captivated the world.
- Series: The League
- Paperback: 204 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (August 9, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1491089288
- ISBN-13: 978-1491089286
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
After the fan backlash of Born of Silence and the lamest reasonings imaginable to make a beloved gay character straight I suppose Sherrilyn Kenyon felt she owed it to her fans to give us a gay love story. And to be honest she did. For some reason this book is listed as number six, but at less than 200 pages and it already being revealed in Born of Silence that Maris gets his HEA with Ture this book should really be listed as 5.5.
I don't mind that this is really a novella because Maris was a minor character and Ture was a random gay bestie of Zarya so this wasn't a story I was dying to read. It clarifies how Maris and Ture went from being "rescuer and rescued" to "super in love boyfriends". Because in Born of Silence their love seemed based on the fact that they are the only two actually gay characters, and since there is no one else for them to hook up with they might as well be with each other. This book doesn't alternate from that, but at least we can see how they fell in love. Be prepared because once again this book is filled with torture porn. This series really should change its name from "The League" to "Oh Yeah, You thought You Were Tortured and Betrayed By Loved Ones? Well Wait Till You Hear My Story". I mean dang, can we be introduced to just once character who hasn't been screwed over. Just one character with a family who loves them and is still alive. A character who hasn't been horribly betrayed and currently in fear of being murdered by that betrayer. Seriously with the amount of people who are broken or with insane vendetta's its a wonder anything in this universe gets done. How does a severely emotionally crippled person grocery shop when there is bounty on their head?
The story starts out seeming like its going to be filled with ridiculous gay stereotypes.
After the absolute awful mess of the previous League book, Born of Silence (I do not recommend it unless you have a very strong stomach and are indifferent to the torture of others), I was excited to see that this book offered the tale of Maris. Maris has been an adorable addition to the series since his first appearance, and I never expected that he would actually get his own fair shake in a book. And to be perfectly honest, he still hasn't.
The story of Maris and Ture (and how the heck do you pronounce Ture, anyway?) should never have been told in the way that it was. While I appreciate Kenyon's bravery in even daring to go there, if she was going to do it, she should have given it the same care and attention as she does with her heterosexual couples. This book is rushed to the extreme. The characters go from "No, we can't" to "I can't resist" in a remarkably small number of pages. The conflicts they face feel absolutely forced, there simply to give them something to fight against. The conflicts and characterizations don't feel, in any way, genuine.
Thanks to the previous times we have seen Maris, we have already been given some sense of who he is as a person. The same cannot be said for Ture. He is a shadow, a ghost, a person who solely exists to love Maris, no matter what. Furthermore, both Maris and Ture go from being macho to being quite feminine in the blink of an eye. At one point, I was thinking that if I had to hear Maris or Ture say 'sweetie' one more time, or see Maris refer to himself as a 'bitch' one more time, I was going to scream. We get it, Kenyon, they're gay. Thanks for all the stereotyping.
After one woefully, ridiculously unrealistic love scene, everything wraps up with shocking speed, all the loose ends tied up pretty neatly.
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