Book Description:
Dear Reader,
Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn't. And being cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior's day.
As a love-slave, I knew everything about a woman. How to touch them, how to savor them, and most of all, how to pleasure them. But when I was summoned to fulfill Grace Alexander's fantasies, I found the first woman in history who saw me as a man with a tormented past. She alone bothered to take me out of the bedroom and into the world. She taught me to love again.
But I was not born to know love. I was cursed to walk eternity alone. As a general, I had long ago accepted my sentence. Yet now I have found Grace -- the one thing my wounded heart cannot survive without. Sure, love can heal all wounds, but can it break a two-thousand-year-old curse?
-Julian of Macedon
Review:
From reading the book description, you don't really get a good picture of what is really going to happen...other than steamy love scenes. I have to point out, that this was not a book I picked up myself, but rather a suggestion of a friend, who, up to this point, had been giving me some very giving suggestions. I figured I would give this one a try.
I now see why there isn't much of a description on the back of the book. The story tells the tale of Julian of Macedon, the son of a Spartan commander and Aphrodite. After doing some no-no's, Julian brings down the wrath of his half brother, Priapus, and gets cursed to be a love-slave to any woman who calls him for a month. Any time he's not called, he resides in a book, that has made its way through time and around the world. He eventually gets called into the twenty-first century by Grace Alexander, who was dared by her best friend on her birthday.
I have to say, I liked the use of Greek mythology. I had always enjoyed reading the myths throughout school so seeing some of the Gods and Goddesses in this novel was quite nice. I also liked the Grace was a real depiction of a normal, modern woman. She's not drop-dead gorgeous like some heroines I've read about; she's completely average. That was a pleasant change.
To be honest though, despite those two things, I'm still not sure if I liked this book. It didn't feel like there was much to the plot other than sex. And yeah, there were a lot of steamy scenes. And I mean A LOT! I've read quite a few romance novels in my short life, and I don't think I've ever encountered as much blush-inducing passages as I did in this book.
If this book wasn't recommended to me by a friend, would I have read it? Probably not. That being said, she has also lent me the second installment in this series and it does sound much better than "Fantasy Lover", so I'll definitely give it a try.
And yes, "Fantasy Lover" is part of a series called the Dark Hunter series. From what I've gathered so far, each novel is about a different person.
So, if you're a hardcore romance novel addict, read this novel. If not, maybe skip this one.
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