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Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 273 pages Rating: 3.98 | 1814 Users | 96 Reviews
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| Title | : | Mona Lisa Darkening (Monère: Children of the Moon #4) |
| Author | : | Sunny |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 273 pages |
| Published | : | January 6th 2009 by Berkley (first published December 29th 2008) |
| Categories | : | Romance. Paranormal Romance. Fantasy. Paranormal. Adult Fiction. Erotica. Urban Fantasy. Demons |
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Sunny's 'Mona Lisa' series is a fascinating, dark fantasy filled with otherworldly creatures that are quite a bit different from the usual paranormal fare. Her world is based on the Monere, a society of moon descendants who 'bask' in the moon's rays to sustain their life. They are stronger, faster, and prettier than normal humans...and many, if not most, are quite a bit crueler.Mona Lisa is drawn into NetherHell this time, and neither her status as Queen nor her Hell mate Halcyon can help her out of this one. Instead it may fall to Mona Lisa's bitterest enemy, Mona Louisa, to provide the knowledge and skills to save herself.
If you haven't been reading this series, you don't want to start with this one! It would still be an interesting and different read, but you would miss all of the broad scope that's packed into such a small novel. The back cover states that Sunny's series will appeal to fans of Anne Bishop and Laurell K. Hamilton, and I agree with that. But I would add Sherri L. King, Laura Anne Gilman, Jennifer Rardin, and fans of C E Murphy's 'Shaman' series to that list. There's not as much sex in this book as in her previous, but the heat is still pretty darn high and in many ways I think this book rides that line between romance and erotica because of the number and 'kinds' of sex portrayed. I'm hooked on this series and look forward to each new book...so yet another for my groaning keeper shelves.
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| Original Title: | Mona Lisa Darkening (Monere, #4) |
| ISBN: | 0425226476 (ISBN13: 9780425226476) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.sunnyauthor.com/mona-lisa-darkening |
| Series: | Monère: Children of the Moon #4 |
| Characters: | Mona Lisa, Halcyon, Gryphon, Amber |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 1814 Users | 96 ReviewsAssess Appertaining To Books Mona Lisa Darkening (Monère: Children of the Moon #4)
It took me about half the book (Page 125) to finally get into the book. In Sunny's, previous books the romance and the sex hit the pages within the first couple chapters. However, in this book we find Mona Lisa is pulled from her realm and pulled into NetherHell, a place far worse than anyone could go in the after life. She runs into people, exotica animals, and an interesting way of life. She is finally saved by Halycon and Gryphon. (which I find there presence in this book was short lived) SheThis series has a major theme common with the two Laurell K. Hamilton series: a tough on the outside, loving on the inside magically powerful heroine and her relationships with many different men who are mostly cool with sharing her. Ridiculous? Absolutely. Really interesting if you like complicated relationships, YES! There's some interesting action and alternate realities thrown in too, which I like.Premise of this fourth installment in the series: Mona Lisa gets accidentally sucked into
I must admit I haven't read this series since the first one and I wasn't all that impressed, I agree that the premise of the series seems a mish mash of Hamilton and Bishop but I liked Mona Lisa as a character so I picked this one up (knowing I was missing a whole lot in between, I didn't mind)If this is an example of how the other books after the first one are I'll pick them up, there wasn't an over abundance of sex and I enjoyed the plot. I don't understand though, I heard this was the last in
Finally this series is starting to pick up some traction for me and get really good for me. In this installment of the Monere series, our main character Mona Lisa is abducted into cursed realm known as Netherhell. There she meets her first set of garagoyles and even learns that NetherHell is a place for truly bad individuals. Such as the damned demons of the Monere world as well as human convicts, gang members, and even corporate fraud types as well. Which is not all that surprising for Mona
Sunny's 'Mona Lisa' series is a fascinating, dark fantasy filled with otherworldly creatures that are quite a bit different from the usual paranormal fare. Her world is based on the Monere, a society of moon descendants who 'bask' in the moon's rays to sustain their life. They are stronger, faster, and prettier than normal humans...and many, if not most, are quite a bit crueler.Mona Lisa is drawn into NetherHell this time, and neither her status as Queen nor her Hell mate Halcyon can help her
Realistically, this gets a 2.5 from me...the unfortunate requirement of rounding gives Sunny the advantage of a 3.0 on this one.I was disappointed on so many levels unfortunately. The only thing holding this together for me was Sunny's writing style, although the Halcyon and Gryphon chapters were written in 3rd person omniscient which REALLY, REALLY bothered me to no end. It was like putting on the brakes in the middle of raging rapids -- just bothered the holy heck out of me as a reader.
All the books had so much more potential, i feel. I enjoyed the series but wish it went a bit differently.
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