So I just finished Acheron today. I know I have vented out my issues about that crazy, crack-smoking woman S. Kenyon but I did love the early books and of course I loved Ash.
If people really want to read the book and don't want any spoilers or if they loved the book, you might not want to read more.
I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW SHE RUINED ASH!
There, I said it. This book was just..... Seriously, there are no words! I just read it and kept on reading, even when it was awful because I could not stop believing that at some point she would say: GOTCHA! And then the real story would begin.
And yes, I get it. Dark-Hunters are supposed to be tortured souls. And yes, since Ash is the leader of the Dark-Hunters, I guess it makes sense that he should be the most tortured but honestly, did it have to be that graphic? Or, is SK such a sick and twisted bitch that somehow she gets off on how much crap she puts Ash and her other characters through? It seems like a valid question, you know? Maybe she has a dungeon somewhere in her house where she keeps someone in a closet with a gag-ball (Now I am getting flashes of Pulp Fiction and the whole "Bring out the gimp" scene.).
So if that wasn't enough, then the part 2 of the book, where Ash meets his one and only love and she cures him with said magical love is so short. Seriously, all that over 200 pages of torture and pain and he gets short changed! And OK, so so Ash's mom, the Destroyer is able to perserve Tory (the one who as the magical love) as a virgin for Ash but she let her own son get serial rapped for decades?
Then comes my biggest gripe, what is it with everyone in the damn book talking like they are extras from Buffy? And Simi talking like she is freaking 3?
It was such a waste of time, thank God I only borrowed it from a friend. Although I wish it was mine so I could throw it across a room, stomp on it and then burn it.
Review by Rainey
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