An excellent read - a science fiction romance with an action [lots and lots of action!] based plot and filled with engaging characters.
First let's get the caveats out of the way. This is NOT hard science
fiction and the science is occasionally dubious. The political background [and
the League] are not well defined. The assassins may be over the top, but the
soldiers [such as those guarding the heroine at various times] are pretty lame
for presumably elite troops. You'd expect more Special Forces and less F Troop
for the guards on the ranking people of the entire planet ... Should these
reasons stop you from reading the book? NO!
So, why should you read this book? Nykarian is the hero and the poster boy
for tortured heroes who manage to come out the other side as lethal and deadly,
but with a sense of honor. Kyria is the heroine. She spends most of the book
being either kidnapped or attacked. She is a princess who has a very naive
world view, especially given that she experienced violence at its worst. When
she was 8, she and her mother were kidnapped and she was forced to watch as her
mother was raped, tortured, and murdered - just before the bad guys put three
shots into her with intent to kill her. [I couldn't help but think that an 8
year old is not very big - couldn't they manage to hit something fatal on her?
More of the F Troop syndrome.] Yet when Nykarian kills 20 men intent on killing
HER, she freaks out on him for his violence. She gets over it [and succeeding
moments where the big, bad world keeps crashing in] and she and Nykarian find
in each other things they have never had before. Acceptance. Loyalty. Love.
The supporting characters are as fascinating as the hero and heroine. They
live and breathe and suffer [and produce some nice snarky dialogue] along with
the hero and heroine. It's a vintage Kenyon plot - bad ass hero, beautiful
heroine, evil villains galore - and that's a good thing.
League
#1 - Born Of The Night
#2 - Born Of Fire
#3 - Born Of Ice
#3.5 - Fire And Ice
#4 - Born of Shadows
#5 - Born of Silence
#6 - Cloak & Silence
#7 - Born Of Fury
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