PLEASURES OF THE NIGHT

Author: Sylvia Day ISBN: 0061230987 4/2007 CONTEMPORARY/PARANORMAL Publisher: AVON RED

In the Twilight between sleep and consciousness, a battle rages between Dream Guardians and Nightmares. Captain Aidan Cross is a legend, as skilled in fulfilling erotic dreams as he is with the glaive that kills his enemy. Women see Aidan as part of their fantasies ... except Lyssa Bates. Exquisite, desirable, enigmatic Lyssa perplexes this immortal seducer because she sees him as he really is. And as he attempts to unravel her secrets the unthinkable occurs: Aidan Cross falls in love. Lyssa has been having the most incredible dreams about a man whose blue eyes hold the promise of decadent pleasures and tempting intimacies. And then he appears on her doorstep! This intoxicating stranger is just as irresistible as the man of her dreams... but with her surrender there is also grave danger... Because Aidan is on a mission, and the passion that consumes them body and soul could have dire consequences. Loving the mortal woman prophesied to destroy Aidan's world is not only impossible... it is forbidden...

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

From start to finish, PLEASURES OF THE NIGHT is all about good lovin' with the right man! It is sensuality at its best and Sylvia Day never holds back!

Lyssa is a great heroine. She is likeable and beautiful, not to mention that she is 100% willing and able to handle everything that is thrown her way, regardless of an icky little health problem. The problem is, Lyssa can't seem to get enough sleep. She could sleep for 24 hours and wake up feeling completely tired all over again. The great thing about these long hours in dreamland is that a handsome stranger has been coming to her in her dreams, to help banish the darkness there. Lyssa doesn't understand what is wrong with her and why her sleep patterns are so out of her control, but Aidan does and he knows exactly what to do to make her sleep like a baby.

Aidan... I love the name Aidan. Whenever I read a book with a hero named Aidan, I know I am going to love his character. Aidan Cross is a man who will not take no for an answer. He will find a way to be with the woman that he has only met in her dreams, and if he has to change the way people of his race have been doing things for years, then so be it. And if the one woman that he loves is the one that he is commissioned to kill, well then, he will just find some other way to complete his mission.

Aidan is sex on a stick—an honest-to-goodness god among men, and from the moment that Lyssa gets her first look at him, all the rules go out the window. So, here we have a gorgeous man, who literally shows up on her doorstep in ill fitting clothing, looking at Lyssa like he would like to incinerate her clothing right off of her body on the spot. Add to that the fact that he is spouting off things about her that no stranger should know, and that would certainly qualify as a reason to call the cops, correct? Ummm... maybe not so much. Because, for some reason, Lyssa can't do that. Aidan, although he is a stranger, seems achingly familiar to her and she has no idea what to do about him. And the best part is that the longer she is with him, the better this all feels.

PLEASURES OF THE NIGHT is Sylvia Day at her hottest! Once I started reading, I didn't want this story to end. Lovers of Sylvia Day books will go wild for this one!

Kristal Gorman