The Darkest Fire #0.5 by Gena Showalter - Lords of the Underworld read along.
Jan 3, 2020 16:59:28 GMT -7
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Post by lindap on Jan 3, 2020 16:59:28 GMT -7
Mari and I are reading through the Lords of the Underworld Series by Gena Showalter. We've read them before, many years ago, but feel it's time to revisit these PNR gems. If anyone would like to jump in a join us, please do!! Would love to develop a group discussion.
The Darkest Fire #0.5
Linda:
Although I rated this book 3.50 / 3 Stars, it was a good start, and necessary in development of the storyline.
We have Geryon, who when his wife was dying, sold his soul to Lucifer for her life. Lucifer hears him and transformed into a man/beast and places him at the gates of hell. He's there two centuries to make sure no demons or minions escape hell.
Kadence, the Goddess of Oppression, is the daughter of the Goddess of Happiness. Kadence was a hard child. Dominant. Manipulative. She could convince people to do things her way. Over time "she chipped away at her mother’s strength and left her a shell of herself”. So the gods made the Goddess of Oppression the warden of the wall in hell. She patrols the wall to make sure no cracks form that will allow the demons and minions to escape. If she sees danger she’s to address it with Lucifer.
In The Darkest Fire Geryon and Kadence have to work together to keep the demons in, but it’s not a easy task. In-fact because of what happens the demons and minions are placed in a box for Pandora to watch over and keep safe. We all know what Pandora does….
Mari:
Linda summed up the plot nicely.
I originally read this in 2008 and rated it 4 ⭐. Now that I've read more PNR books I'd have to drop that to 3.0 - 3.5 ⭐
Not that the story is bad, it's just short and compared to the quality of the later books in the series I found this a bit lacking. The love story between Kadence and Geryon didn't make much sense to me. I get the attraction, kind of, two lonely people stuck working in the same horrible place. That they spent hundreds of years seeing each other every day but never once speaking was strange to me.
Throughout the Lords of the Underworld series we read over and over that Pandora's box was made from the bones of the Goddess of Oppression and that box contained the worst of the demons who escaped hell. If you don't read this short novella you won't understand who the Goddess was, how the demons escaped hell or why her bones made the perfect prison / box. We still don't know how her bones were recovered or how the box was made or how the demons were re-captured and imprisoned in the box. I would have preferred those questions answered as well to properly set up the LOTU series.
****Mari's so right...there were unanswered questions about the box and how the demons were re-captured.****
The Darkest Fire #0.5
Linda:
Although I rated this book 3.50 / 3 Stars, it was a good start, and necessary in development of the storyline.
We have Geryon, who when his wife was dying, sold his soul to Lucifer for her life. Lucifer hears him and transformed into a man/beast and places him at the gates of hell. He's there two centuries to make sure no demons or minions escape hell.
Kadence, the Goddess of Oppression, is the daughter of the Goddess of Happiness. Kadence was a hard child. Dominant. Manipulative. She could convince people to do things her way. Over time "she chipped away at her mother’s strength and left her a shell of herself”. So the gods made the Goddess of Oppression the warden of the wall in hell. She patrols the wall to make sure no cracks form that will allow the demons and minions to escape. If she sees danger she’s to address it with Lucifer.
In The Darkest Fire Geryon and Kadence have to work together to keep the demons in, but it’s not a easy task. In-fact because of what happens the demons and minions are placed in a box for Pandora to watch over and keep safe. We all know what Pandora does….
Mari:
Linda summed up the plot nicely.
I originally read this in 2008 and rated it 4 ⭐. Now that I've read more PNR books I'd have to drop that to 3.0 - 3.5 ⭐
Not that the story is bad, it's just short and compared to the quality of the later books in the series I found this a bit lacking. The love story between Kadence and Geryon didn't make much sense to me. I get the attraction, kind of, two lonely people stuck working in the same horrible place. That they spent hundreds of years seeing each other every day but never once speaking was strange to me.
Throughout the Lords of the Underworld series we read over and over that Pandora's box was made from the bones of the Goddess of Oppression and that box contained the worst of the demons who escaped hell. If you don't read this short novella you won't understand who the Goddess was, how the demons escaped hell or why her bones made the perfect prison / box. We still don't know how her bones were recovered or how the box was made or how the demons were re-captured and imprisoned in the box. I would have preferred those questions answered as well to properly set up the LOTU series.
****Mari's so right...there were unanswered questions about the box and how the demons were re-captured.****