The Chairman has been killed and now Lilith, Satan's Consort sits on the vampire throne as the Vampire Council’s new Chairwoman. She raises all the dark covens—calling every major dark witch and warlock to do her bidding. Her goal is to distract the team members, while the unborn heir to the Dark Realms awaits his own birth. All Lilith needs now is Damali's newly discovered angelic powers to make that come to past. That will allow her evil progeny to walk through the veil between worlds and take his throne as the true Anti-Christ. Damali and her crew race to stop Lilith. However, raising not only the dark covens, but all vampires that had not been slain by Damali, puts the world out of balance and kicks off the Armageddon.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 29 reviews)

language

I couldn't finish this book. In fact I barely got through the second chapter. I realize that she was trying to create a certain atmosphere with the language. But the slang was so prevalent in this book that unless you already spoke this slang to the point of thinking in this slang it slowed the story down to a crawl. I saw that many people seem to enjoy these books, but be warned that if english is your first language this book is nothing but a frustration.
July 16, 2008

Always a pleasure to read!

I never know where to begin with my review for one of L.A. Bank's newest installments of the Vampire Huntress Series. She always manages to blow me away. While this book was not my favorite book, the ongoing story line continually captivates me. Her love scenes are unlike any other I have ever read. They are never tiresome, repetitive or boring. She never uses the same language to describe them. Her characters are fully fleshed out. Granted, there are a lot of characters to keep up with, yet if you have read all the books in this series, you will not have any problem keeping up. Her description, whether in the various locations she introduces or the highly charged battle scenes to the costumes of the Neteru Queens, is untouchable by any other author I have read. I feel as if I am right there with the characters. My only complaint with this book and a couple of installments before this book was that the author feels she has to integrate each and every Guardian team member in the dialogue. Frankly, this gets to be a little confusing with each character having to have a voice in whatever scene is unfolding. Other than that one small fault, in my opinion, these books continue to captivate and thrill me and I look forward to each and every one. I will sadly miss them when the series ends.
April 01, 2008

Legends at there best

L.A. Banks is a Masterful storyteller. I loved this book. This was the 9th in the series. There was alot of humor in this book. The Queen's kick some Lilith booty. Its a shame they don't lay her a** down. The team have a united front in this book. It kicks off the Armageddeon for the next 3 books.
Looking forward to the next book.

January 29, 2008

The Really Cursed

The book starts off with action in a true den of sin, guns blazing, vamps dying and props to the men. They feel their testosteren flowing, but it isn't the regular type of machismo, this is the "holy" kick-butt type of machismo. The women of this piece are shocked and amazed that the men would go into the heart of Lilith's home, kill her pet and get out. "Lou" (short for Lucifer) is shocked by their boldness. There is a mole in hell, Eve and her group do damage and the Antichrist is born in a place I never would have guessed. Read and enjoy.
September 21, 2007

Trite, Tired and Terrible

I've followed this series faithfully and loved it so much I used any opportunity to talk it up to anyone who wanted to listen--and sometimes didn't! However, The Cursed was pure dreck. The comic interludes were awesome touches and so I delved into this book, expecting a rollicking ride the previous installments gave me. I was flabbergasted by the fact that Part I was filled with characters arguing and having sex--and the arguments were just stuff these characters have already argued about time and time again before. There was skanky villain sex galore and I grew tired of it because I've seen it before and it did nothing for the plot. In fact, after I struggled through this horrid book, I realized that none of these how paper thing these characters are. The same fights crop up again and again, the "love" triangles keep getting rehashed over and over, and the action is just so over the top. Where a good plot and well-placed sex once disguised the tepid characterizations, the horrible plot and meaningless sex revealed the series' weaknesses. I really, really doubt I'll continue with the series after this book.
September 17, 2007

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