Friday, 9 September 2011

Acheron



“Anytime, agriato."
Jaden inclined his head respectfully to him as Ash spoke in Jaden's native tongue and called him brother. It wasn't a language the demon broker heard often. He gave Ash a slight imperial bow before he vanished.

THE THINGS I HATED

Okay peeps, news to Sherilyn Kenyon, arigato does not mean “brother” and if the demon lived in our time as it clearly states in this second part of the book entitled “ACHERON Present Day”, then I’m certain he would meet plenty of people who speak Japanese.
Like almost everything that interests me, the resentment that sparked in me was born of a book I was reading - Acheron- and surprisingly a really good one even though it surprised me and broke my heart many a times. I was pretty satisfied with the material until I saw this and it rattled my chains. As an avid manga and anime fan I can’t stop myself from being so pissed I’d be spitting nails and lightning bolts the moment I read that. People! No matter how good the novel is, if you don’t know that language, never be too afraid to Google the expression you want to use or ask a friendly Jap. It’s really frustrating when you are reading this really good stuff and suddenly come across something so blatantly wrong you wanna bonk someone on the head. Add to that a couple of clichés like “The one thing I learned from Astrid is that life isn't about finding shelter in a storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain” and you’ve got real frustration.

GENERAL TAKE

In all truth, this book is so very deliciously frustrating and heartfelt that you are torn between putting the book down to stop from hurting and waiting and hoping that in the next four hundred pages the gods are gonna cut the poor fella a damn break. I mean the boy was born to the ultimate god couple – Apollymi the destroyer and Archon the creator- one of which did not want him. He was conspired against by two pantheons even before his birth and then hidden in the human world and disguised as a prince only to be sold as a prostitute by his father and uncle. All that goes on until his mother breaks out of her prison. She then sets on to annihilate her own husband and pantheon, drown Atlantis and then destroy half of grease to avenge her son who wants nothing but her love and to be left alone. And how could she not, she is the goddess of destruction “Apollymi the Great Destroyer.” My last thoughts about Acheron; damn that guy is a pushover to first trust a chick like Artemis and then abuse him even after he regains his much greater powers. It just makes me grind my teeth to think about how even after he gained power he let himself be used as a pawn. 
Personally, as a ruthless schemer, I rate his IQ or a base of ten to be a three.


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