Title: Unleash the Night
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Published in January 2006 by St. Martin’s Press
Genre: Paranormal
ISBN: 0-312-93433-5
Related Books: Night Pleasures
Were-hunter Wren Tigarian considers himself defective. Growing up in Sanctuary, one would think he’d have grown up feeling wanted. After all, Sanctuary is a place for anyone who has no other place to go. Wren Tigarian is a misfit among misfits. The bear clan of sanctuary has kept Wren under close scrutiny. They’ve known since he was a cub that Wren was a crouching tigard ready to lash out at anything or anyone who shows weakness. No one trusts Wren, and that’s just fine with him because he trusts no one. Wren is neither tiger nor leopard, and unaccepted by either clan. He’d come to accept the fact that he belonged nowhere. Wren does not seek attention. He prefers to stay to the shadows… Until he sees Marguerite D’Aubert Goudeau.
Marguerite is way out of Wren’s league. The daughter of a U.S. Senator, Margeurite has grown up in the spotlight. She is always painfully aware that the paparazzi may follow her wherever she goes. Marguerite has always lived the life of an aristocrat, but has always felt like an outsider looking in on her father’s world. Not totally accepted because of her Cajun heritage, passed on to her by her mother, Marguerite, too, feels like a misfit among her peers. All of her life, all she has wanted to do is earn her father’s approval and acceptance. Marguerite has always conformed to her father’s ideals of what her life should be, rather than choosing her own path. Yet, through it all, she knows she will never be good enough.
Like Marguerite, Wren had once wanted the approval and acceptance of his parents. As a cub, both had looked upon him with disgust because of his mixed heritage. His parents’ deaths had not left him alone; he’d been alone a long time before that. While Margeurite had grown up as a socialite, Wren preferred to crouch in the shadows. Confined to Sanctuary to protect him from those who would have him dead, Wren avoids life, even as he fights for survival. It is rare that Wren sets his sights on something, but when he does, he always gets what he wants—to hell with the consequences. And right now, he wants Maggie. Marguerite avoids all aspects of life that will bring down the harsh, disapproving glare of her father. Senator Goudeau would never approve of a relationship between his daughter and a bus boy at a local bar. She hates living a life she didn’t choose, but loves her father. A relationship with Wren would never work.
Were-hunters and socialites don’t mix. It’s some sort of law—literally. The Were-hunters live secretly among humans. The only way to ensure the safety of their world is to keep their existence a secret. To get involved with an aristocratic human is just asking for trouble. Wren is growing more and more unstable. He’s more dangerous, threatening. Some Were-hunters see Wren as a ticking time-bomb ready to explode, taking them and all they have worked for with him. When new evidence links Wren to his parents’ murders, the weres need no other excuse. They want to make a rug of his white tigard hide. These were-predators will stop at nothing to get at Wren, including taking out the one human who has ever meant anything to him.
Despite the small disappointment of missing the notably absent Acheron and his demon-child Simi, Unleash the Night is everything I’ve come to expect from Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter series. The storyline is as compelling and mysterious as Wren himself. Dark-Hunter fans will revel in meeting old friends (Kyrian of Thrace, Julian Alexander, and Vane Kattalakis, among others), as well as reminiscing and mourning the loss of Dark-Hunter squire Nick Gautier, while diving deeper in the world of the Were-Hunters than Kenyon has ever allowed us to go before. Readers will be on edge trying to unravel the mystery that is Wren Tigarian
This latest chapter of the Dark Hunter series, Unleash the Night, is available now from St. Martin’s Press and can be found in paperback almost anywhere books are sold. Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter series is the perfect combination of the following ingredients: compelling storyline; riveting action; sensuous romance; witty humor; a strong, enticing heroine, and a feral, yummy hero. Wren Tigarian is a bad-boy among bad-boys, and will leave even the tamest tigress panting and ready to pounce. Unleash the Night is a must-read and will leave your fingers itching for the next chapter in the Dark-Hunter saga: Dark Side of the Moon.
Yours from the Heart,
Trista Bane
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