paranormal romance, fantasy
I'm tempted to go with 2-1/2 stars but it's not really that I disliked this book. I just didn't like it as much as I'd hoped to. This is the second book I've read by Sherrilyn Kenyon. A while back, I read the very first book she ever wrote, Born of the Night, because it was free and I'd heard rave reviews about her books. I wasn't all that impressed. So, I figured she probably got better with time and decided to try a later book of hers. Night Play is the first of a series but it is also the sixth of a prior series (which I hadn't realized when I bought it). While the author did seem to provide enough history for the new reader to not be completely lost, I could tell that there were other histories with some of the characters that I was missing.
This is a story about a man, Vane, who is part wolf and part human and a human woman, Bride. (And, I really did not like her name but, whatever.) Guess what? Boy meets girl, boy likes girl, boy is unbelievably perfect (though he doesn't think so), girl is swept off her feet, and you can probably guess the ending. It wasn't anything new or surprising. There were a few dramatic scenes thrown in to make it interesting. It was just a regular ol' paranormal romance novel, IMO. There were some funny moments. But there was also a LOT of redundancy. I kept thinking that Kenyon's editors must really not be attentive readers if they need to be provided with the same facts more than twice within the same novel. I don't think I'll be spending any more time on Sherrilyn Kenyon.
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