Review: Acheron

Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



This book was unbearable to read for the most part. To see, and I do mean literally see everything in my head of what was done to Acheron and everyone who had ever let him down truly broke my heart. He lost two people early on and they were the only two people who meant anything to him. The first half or more of the book was like that. Throughout his "mortal" life, his sister Ryssa tried so much to help him yet she incidentally only ever really caused harm in the end without even meaning to. To want to die and not have to suffer through another moment where no one has ever shown you kindness is terrible. He went through the most terrible things for about the first 25 years of his life. His sister was the one person who loved him so much and she never wanted him to go through all of that. She loved him so much so she tried every time to help, protect and love him despite how everyone including their entire family treated him.

Artemis was a horrible evil bitch for the thousands of years that she new Ash and I understood completely why he had always hated her so much. She was selfish and uncaring and always had been. She witnessed him being Beaten and degraded so many times. She claimed she loved him yet she never fought for him, claimed him, or truly loved him. She did all the things she said she'd never do, betrayed him in all ways, and used everything against him. She was completely oblivious to everything he felt and had no idea that he hated her usually. Everything she ever did was for herself.

It was truly wonderful when he met Tory. I didn't love Tory but I was happy that Ash finally found someone who could be what he needed to him. Tory was so understanding, caring, and loving towards Ash. They started off rocky because she'd amazingly found the journals that Ryssa wrote thousands of years ago. She was still ruining things unintentionally after she died. She should have never wrote all the things she'd wrote about her brother. So when the diaries were discovered, Ash had to discredit Tory's discovery. That didn't put them on good terms but once they got to know one another, they instantly started falling in love. Unlike Artemis, Tory paid attention and cared about all of Ash's thoughts and feelings. She made everything he said and did seem normal when everyone had always treated him like he was so different and not human.

After growing to love Acheron throughout the first 14 books, I had to know his story. It's amazing that he became the man he was throughout this series after a terrible human life and after thousands of years dealing with Artemis.

This book goes on my complete-psycho list because Artemis, Stixx, and many other people who were horrible to Ash are crazy just because. It's definitely a favorite although I may never be able to read it again. All the things that happened to him pissed-me-off. Tortured is self explanatory. And of course men-i-love. Who wouldn't love Ash?



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