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<\/a><\/div>\nThe Darkest Whisper<\/b>
Gena Showalter<\/b>
He is the keeper of Doubt and his entire world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about to be rocked. <\/p>\n
Bound by the demon of doubt, Sabin unintentionally destroys even the most confident of lovers. So the immortal warrior spends his time on the battlefield instead of the bedroom, victory his only concern\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6until he meets Gwendolyn the Timid. One taste of the beautiful redhead, and he craves more. <\/p>\n
Gwen, an immortal herself, always thought she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d fall for a kind human who wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t rouse her darker side. But when Sabin frees her from prison, battling their enemies for the claim to Pandora\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s box turns out to be nothing compared to the battle Sabin and Gwen will wage against love…<\/p>\n
REVIEW<\/b>
The Darkest Whisper, the fourth book in Gena Showalter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lords of the Underworld series, starts off with a bang that soon fades as the book progresses. The plot wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t amazing in this one, mainly focusing on the romance blossoming between the hero, Sabin, the leader of the Greece Lords and keeper of Doubt, and Gwen, a young Harpy female. There are a few fights thrown in to spice things up a bit, but they all felt a little convenient to me. There was no real hints that danger was coming or the enemy was going to launch a full-scale attack. Everything was pretty much fine one moment and total pandemonium the next. It did leave me feeling that they were tossed in there because the author felt there needed to be something happening in the book other than the romance. <\/p>\n
We learn a few new things about the world and the overall plot arc in the book though, but it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Sabin or Gwen who learn them. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re mostly out of action dealing with each other. I think I would have preferred it if the leading couple had been more involved with the plot. Most of the time, Sabin and Gwen were busy training together or generally resisting their desire for each other, rather than moving the plot along, flimsy as it was. The Darkest Whisper was more about the romance than anything. The ending was fairly unbelievable and actually came close to ruining this book for me. Gwen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision would have driven the Lords to totally butcher her and I doubt they would have listened to Sabin and given her the choice when securing their fate and future is within their reach. It just seemed out of character for all of the immortal warriors that they would let it go down that way. Also, the epilogue was dire and extremely cheesy, and utterly pointless. It sort of made me cringe.<\/p>\n
However, Sabin was delicious and I really liked Gwen, and their romance was one worth reading. Since Sabin is the keeper of Doubt, he has a tendency to drive women to lose all confidence in themselves and eventually commit suicide. He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a great track record with the ladies, so has kept clear of them, until he finds Gwen locked in a glass cage in a Hunter lab in Egypt. Saving her becomes priority one for the man who is normally so focused on war and fighting, willing to do whatever it takes to win. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that side of him that makes Gwen cautious and unwilling to fall for him, even when she can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop herself from desiring him. Her Harpy side delights in the presence of such a strong handsome man and she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fairly smitten from the moment he saves her. Sabin uses the excuse that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s keeping her around because he wants to make timid little Gwen into a weapon, harnessing her Harpy side and training her to unleash it at will. As the story progresses though, he comes to admit that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s keeping her around because as far as he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concerned, she belongs to him now and he won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let her go. He also realises that he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use her in the manner he first wanted to, and that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s changing him and smoothing out his rough edges.<\/p>\n
Gwen was a brilliant heroine too. I always enjoy it when we get to witness a heroine coming into her own. She goes from being afraid of her Harpy side and pretty much everything around her, scared that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll lose control and harm people she cares about, to being a strong confident woman in control of herself and her destiny, and determined to bring Sabin to his knees. I love how possessive she became of him, her Harpy side taking the reins whenever someone dared to just look at him the wrong way.<\/p>\n
Read this book for the romance and just take the randomly thrown in bit of plot at the end as a bonus. It was great that the series has taken a leap forward though, the revelations coming thick and fast now, but some parts of it just didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fit with what we know of the Lords and how they work and react to things. I would still recommend it though. I want to give it a four because I loved the romance side of things, but I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get passed the fact that it just sucked a little at the end, so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to have to receive a three from me. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really a 3.5, and I know I normally bring those up to a four, but I just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do it with this one without my stomach turning.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\nRead reviews of The Darkest Whisper by Gena Showalter on Goodreads: http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/5509920-the-darkest-whisper<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n During my break in Scotland, I read three books in Gena Showalter’s Lords of the Underworld series. Over the past two weeks I have posted my four star review of The Darkest Kiss and my five star review of The … Continue reading <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"