Book Review: Darkest Craving by Gena Showalter
Rating: 2.5/5
Oh Kane, my beautiful disaster, always left behind. Kane is the Lord that no one remembers, he’s always been forgettable but now it is time for him to shine. It’s too bad that he doesn’t. He’s never been a strong personality since we learn so little of him in the previous books. The only thing we know is that he’s constantly in the center of mayhem, things fall on him, and objects explode around him, that sort of thing. In anticipation of his book, his storyline gets amped up and he’s dragged into hell, tortured beyond repair and an apocalyptic prophecy hangs over his head. We’ve been set up to expect something of EPIC proportions and I’m sad to say that it’s a pretty big letdown here.
I was expecting a story about Kane’s time in hell and his recuperation; instead we get a large part of the book dedicated to the royal Fae court. At the start of the book, Kane has already been freed and you’d think he would be suffering from his ordeal in Hell but it’s pretty glossed over. The wound is fresh, but we never feel Kane’s trauma.
The book was ok, nothing really memorable so there isn’t anything to add to the series as a whole. Sadly, it was forgettable for me. Forgettable enough that I started my review, and left it in my drafts for two weeks before thinking, oh I have nothing to do at work, might as well work on my blog! The biggest problem I think was the detraction from what we know as the LOTU universe. All of a sudden we are in a different realm with little to do with the other lords and the greater story at hand (hunters, hell, angels etc.)
Best part? The little snippets of Torin. Even Cameo’s cameo was more interesting than Kane’s story. I’m sorry but this book is a pass.
Random Notes:
Did LOTU always have a Fae realm or is this a new thing to accommodate this ever expanding universe?
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