THE DARKEST WARRIOR is the fourteenth book in Gena Showalter's Lords of the Underworld series. It's a good idea to read this series in order because of all the interwoven relationships, and all the ways events from the past factor into the present. Gillian Shaw doesn't get the man she thinks she wanted, but in THE DARKEST WARRIOR she most definitely gets what she needs. Being wrong never felt so right.
The opening of THE DARKEST WARRIOR reads like something out of a Grimm brothers fairy tale. Two princes in a far-off land are cruelly driven apart by a prophesy, with a magical transformation thrown in for good measure. Puck the Undefeated is an unlikely hero but very likable and lickable. After some bad stuff goes down between him and his brother Sin, Puck is still a sexy Jason Momoa doppelganger -- just with horns and hooves. Although Puck initially sets out to steal Gillian away without any regard for her feelings, his secret and fondest dream is to belong to someone and be special, and to have someone special belong to him. What's not to love?
At the start of THE DARKEST WARRIOR, Gillian is not in a great place. She thinks she's in love with William but, for good reasons, she has a fear of physical intimacy. Winding up bonded to Puck and being taken to his home fantasy realm of Amaranthia may have been the best thing to ever happen to her. Through some pretty creative maneuvering, Gena Showalter gives Gillian the time and the space to evolve into a confident warrior queen who can stand on her own, eviscerate her enemies, and accept as well as give love. This hero and heroine both come to the realization that they want to be together but trying to figure out how to do that is incredibly frustrating. Going on a quest with death and destruction a heartbeat away only cements their bond and makes them fall deeper in love.
THE DARKEST WARRIOR has a deliriously sexy hero with horns, hooves, and heart and a warrior queen who earns her happily ever after. The secondary characters in THE DARKEST WARRIOR are pretty amazing and I can't wait to read more about Winter and her brother Cameron, as well as Rathbone, and a slew of others. I look forward to what exciting adventure Gena Showalter has planned next in her Lords of the Underworld universe.
A searing Lords of the Underworld tale by New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter, featuring a beastly prince and the wife he will wage war to keepHe is ice…Puck the Undefeated, host of the demon of Indifference, cannot experience emotion without punishment, so he allows himself to feel nothing. Until her. According to ancient prophecy, she is the key to avenging his past, saving his realm and ruling as king. All he must do? Steal her from the man she loves—and marry her.She is fire…Gillian Shaw has suffered many tragedies in her too-short life, but nothing could have prepared the fragile human for her transition into immortality. To survive, she must wed a horned monster who both intrigues and frightens her…and become the warrior queen she was born to be.Together they burn.As a rising sense of possession and obsession overtake Puck, so does insatiable lust. The more he learns about his clever, resourceful wife, the more he craves her. And the more time Gillian spends with her protective husband, the more she aches for him. But the prophecy also predicts an unhappily-ever-after. Can Puck defeat fate itself to keep the woman who brought his deadened heart back to life? Or will they succumb to destiny, losing each other…and everything they’ve been fighting for?
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