Search - Born of Night (Also published as Born of the Night) (League, Bk 1)

Like most science fiction romance stories, this kept me entertained, but it didn't dazzle me. Kiara is a dancer and a princess (of a planet) and Nykyrian is one of the most feared assassins in the universe. Of course Nykyrian is fascinated by Kiara and her dancing, even though he has never really had an interest in women...
The most frusterating part about this book was Kiara. When she was a child, she was shot 3 times and watched her mother get murdered. Because of this, she says she doesn't cry and wants to fight the people who hurt the innocent: she seems like some kick ass chick who will be able to hold her own. Not the case. She cries all the time and finds it hard to believe that there are people out there that can kill others without hesitation.
So 2.5, didn't suck, wasn't great, just held my attention for 5 hours.

Nykyrian is an expert assassin; Kiara a famous dancer. They are thrown together by their enemies and some how end up falling in love.

I have to say first off that this is not my genre. I love a good romance but, futuristic romance is just not my thing. That being said, I actually read this book until the end, which for me is a huge fete since I usually will stop reading after the first few chapters once I realize I am not into it. As a book reviewer though, I am learning to give everything a fair chance. This story wasn't too bad, the characters are wonderful and there is a good balance between the romance and the sci fi. There were some parts I had to force myself through but others I could not stop reading. I read this whole book in one sitting, it took me roughly 6 hours. Not bad.

Overall this book isn't for me but if you enjoy this genre, I firmly believe you will love this book whole-heartedly. I do have to admit, since the next book features Syn as the main character I might have to read it, because he was a good comic relief in this book. We shall see.

Also posted: http://www.bibliophilicbookblog.com/2009/10/book-review-born-of-night-by-sherilyn.html

I had a hard time staying with this book. I kept putting it down and reading other books before picking it up again. I was over halfway through the book before I stayed with it until the end. Not one of Kenyon's best.

This was the first League book I read after keeping up with all of the Dark Hunter books. It was quite different from the DH books but I did enjoy it a lot.

Born of Night was heartbreaking in the treatment of the main character. Sherrilyn was very descripitive in his treatment that at times I was teary. She also painted a beautiful picture of his love interest and how thier love grew for one another. Sherrilyn put everything you can want in her book action, romance, mystery. I really enjoyed this book.

Kenyon is a very popular writer. However, I REALLY didn't like this book - her style, story telling and character development just didn't cut it for me. By page three we have the achingly beautiful, scarred, 1/2 alien, bad-guy-with-good-heart, misunderstood hero rescuing the tiny, most beautiful, always in trouble princess. She comes across as stupid and whiny. She continually gets into trouble and he rescues her and the sex builds and becomes overly idiotic. I quite reading about half way through the book. Compared to Kim Harrison and Patrica Briggs, Kenon is on the bottom.