Review: Born of Legend by Sherrilyn Kenyon

13 December of 2016 by Jean

Reviewer's Rating: 5

5.0Overall score

And the Villain becomes the hero!

Born of Legend By Sherrilyn Kenyon Narrated By Fred Berman

Genre: SyFy Romance

Released: June 21, 2016

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Series: The League, Book 9

Synopsis

“It’s official Take a Psycho to Work Day. Why else would I be here?”

Hunted. Hated. Betrayed. Outcast Dagger Ixur is on the run for his life. As one of the most recognizable members of his royal house, he has a bounty on his head that guarantees him no quarter from any friend or even family. But surrender isn’t in him. He will fight to the bitter end. A resolve that is sorely tested when he narrowly escapes a trap that leaves him severely wounded. With what he believes is his dying breath, he saves a boy born to an extinct race from a group out to enslave the kid for his legendary abilities.

Ushara Altaan has spent her entire life hating the Andarion royal house that drove her entire species into virtual extinction. As a rare Andarion Fyreblood, she is sworn to end the existence of any royal she finds. But when Dagger saves her son’s life, she is torn between her people and a debt that can never be repaid.
Yet worse than Dagger’s family that’s still out to end hers and him, are the League assassins after him who will stop at nothing to claim the lives of her Tavali family. The only hope she has to save them all is to put their future and her faith into the hands of the very enemy whose grandmother personally extinguished Ushara’s legendary lineage. But how can she ever trust Dagger when he is a disinherited outlaw whose real name is synonymous with betrayal?

Review

Reviewed by Jean

And the Villain becomes the hero!

I started reading Sherrilyn Kenyon with the start of her Dark-Hunter series before it was known as that. I absolutely loved Fantasy Lover and each of the books that followed. Of course, as most readers do, I went looking for the author’s backlist and discovered her original books in The League series. Each and every one of the stories in this series has captured my heart with the exceptional heroes and heroines Ms. Kenyon creates.

In her latest release, Born of Legend readers of the series will find themselves falling in absolute love with the sorely maligned Jullien eton Anatole, disinherited prince of the Andarian empire and repeatedly an enemy of the other heroes in the series. While Jullien will be the first to claim himself a totally contentious asshole you’ll discover this is one brand of asshole any woman would be proud to have in her life. Now living under the guise of Dagger Ixur, the bogeyman of the Andarian people, he lives his life on the run from a Thrill-Kill order on his life made by his very own grandmother. In what he thinks is his last living moments in life he chooses to take a stand and rescue a young Andarian boy from slavery. With one selfless act, he finds himself adopted into the Tavali nation and under the spell of the boy’s widowed mother, Ushara.

In Ushara’s loving embrace he finds the first love he has ever known in his life. He finds family and community.

Ms. Kenyon is one author that is on my auto-buy list. When an author can take one of the villains of the series and turn him around and make him a hero you adore I say total kudos. If you haven’t read it yet, I would highly recommend it. Oh and just a side note… I purchased the audible version as well as the ebook and read along. The narrator does a darned good job!

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O Factor: Spicy

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About Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The #1 New York Times bestselling author, Sherrilyn Kenyon, who is proud of her mixed Cherokee heritage, lives a life of extraordinary danger… as does any woman with three sons, a husband, a menagerie of pets and a collection of swords that all of the above have a major fixation with. But when not running interference (or dashing off to the emergency room), she’s found chained to her computer where she likes to play with all her imaginary friends. With tens of millions of her books in print, in over one hundred countries, she certainly has a lot of friends to play with too.

In the last few years, she has placed more than 75 novels on the New York Times list in all formats including manga. This extraordinary bestseller continues to top every genre she writes, including young adult, manga, fantasy, science fiction and horror. Her current series include: The Dark-Hunters®, The League®, Deadman’s Cross™, Lords of Avalon® and Chronicles of Nick®.

Her Lords of Avalon® novels have been adapted by Marvel, her Dark-Hunter novels are a New York Times bestselling manga published by St. Martins. and the Chronicles of Nick® manga are published by Yen Press. And keep your eyes pealed, her books are soon to be hitting both the big and little screens by the same group who specializes in turning beloved literary series into major movie franchises.
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