Bakers Dozen 3

So this one was hard for me decide, mainly because I love everything that this author writes.  But I decided it wouldn't be fair if I put on this list 'Anything by Sherrilyn Kenyon.'

So I picked Night Play by Sherrilyn Kenyon.  The reason I picked this book instead of some of her other ones is because of the lead female character Bride was described as a full figured woman.  I don't mean a size 10 either, no Sherrilyn Kenyon wrote a character who is a size 18 and is beautiful and makes the hunky Vane's head turn and drool.  So many romance writers don't go there when it comes to women and their figure and Kenyon made it so all women of different shapes and sizes can be happy with their body in these books.

Now the story itself is another instalment of the Dark-Hunter series and I believe it was one of the earlier releases (I think it was the 5th or 6th one) of this series, but it is the first full novel for the Were-Hunter series.  The character Vane did make an appearance in a previous Hunter series book, so it was very pleasing to read his story.

I think another reason why I picked this story is because Kenyon wrote more about the Were-Hunter's and their mythology and history that binds this race to the Greek Gods.  As a sucker for mythology this was a nice change up from a lot of the stories that I had been reading at the time.  I was starting to slowly get into romance after reading nothing but one author so it was a nice change.  I believe I started reading the Dark-Hunter series when I was 16-years-old.

Even though all of Sherrilyn Kenyon's stories (except for her Chronicles of Nick series) have love scenes, they aren't saturating the whole story.  I love how all of the characters are written and I especially love the characters Bride and Vane, they do get mentioned in some of Kenyon's later novels so its kind of like you get to keep in-touch with a long lost friend.

I couldn't do this list without a Sherrilyn Kenyon novel and even though it was kind of hard to pick just one, I decided on Night Play mainly based on the character Bride because despite her "size" she was beautiful and strong and everyone wants a really hunky man by her side regardless of appearance.