But that became and still remains, one of my all time top favourite books. I think the hardest 'torture' scene to read for me was at the beginning of Ride the Fire.

Stacy: *g* It's not that I don't love a tortured hero - I really do. It got to the point in the Dark Hunter series where I just couldn't take any more reading of the overwhelmingly horrendous things she put her heroes through. The first reason is I found way too much sequel bait in her books and the second - the Overtortured Tortured Hero. It's the first Kenyon I've read for a while - I gave up up for a couple of reasons. I've started reading Sherrilyn Kenyon's revised and reissued futuristic series, and after a bit of a rocky start with the first one, and putting it down until the reading mojo came back, I've been enjoying it quite a bit. But even I, yes I, who loves this kind of hero, have my limits. So I can't be accused of not liking this kind of hero.

Nicholas Kenleigh who was captured and tortured and left with terrible scars and a feeling of overwhelming guilt over surviving.

Branden Kel Paton who was painfully turned into half machine and forced to live his life watching his every thought and loving a woman from afar.ĮEEK - I had to edit - I remembered another one *smacking my head that I forgot him*.

Conor's Way - watched his family starve to death in Ireland, he came to America and earned his way as a boxer until he was beaten nearly to death for not throwing a fight.

Lord Ian MacKenzie - delivered to an insane asylum when he was young and witnessed his father killing his mother, whereupon he underwent horrible abuses.

Johnny Harris - sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, raped while he was there and before that, beaten by his father and abandoned by his mother.

Croix - sold to a Parisian brothel when he was just a young boy and used by both men and women.

Derek Craven - born of a prostitute, lived a horrid life including many nasty jobs chimney sweep, resurectionist etc.

When I think back on my favourite books and what they might have in common, probably 90% of them feature a hero who has been tortured in one way or another: I love a good tortured hero - I think anyone who visits here with any kind of regularity has been able to figure that out *g*.

Keeper books vs Keeping books - there is a difference.

You gotta be in the mood to be in the groove.

You're never too old to learn new tricks!!.

Conor's Way by Laura Lee Guhrke