Weekend Book Club: The Darkest Kiss

I'm ashamed to say, this is the first Gena Showalter book I've read.

I know, I know, but I read a lot and widely across genres, so that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

I grabbed this book on a quick mission to a new bookstore, with toddler grumbling for food, so I added it to a pile of 9 books in my arms and ran for the checkout.

Only later did I discover it's actually book 2 in the Lord of the Underworld series. But I didn't want to wait to read book 1 so I dove straight in.

And loved it.

Here's the blurb:

She has tempted many men… but never found her equal.
Until now.
Though she has lived for centuries, Anya, goddess of anarchy, has never known pleasure. Until Lucien, the incarnation of death—a warrior eternally doomed to take souls to the hereafter. He draws her like no other. And Anya will risk anything to have him.
But when the merciless Lord of the Underworld is ordered by the gods to claim Anya herself, their uncontrollable attraction becomes an anguished pursuit. Now they must defeat the unconquerable forces that control them, before their thirst for one another demands a sacrifice of love beyond imagining.…

Anya, the goddess of anarchy, more than lives up to her name and Lucien, the incarnation of death, is a wonderfully scarred hero, both physically and emotionally.

And the sparks they create...phew! This is one SEXY read.

There are loads of secondary characters whose stories we get snippets of throughout this book, so loads more Lords of the Underworld books to come!

In fact, there are 12 books in the series. You can see them all here.