Leah's Reviews > The Darkest Lie

** spoiler alert ** ~ TO PART IS TO DIE ~

Scarlet. She's the Keeper of Nightmares and my absolute favorite heroine of the series. She's feisty, smart, loyal, bloodthirsty, vicious, and highly sarcastic. Her memories of Steel broke my heart, and it broke my heart even further when it was revealed that the memories were not real. I loved the wedding memory; that was absolutely heartwarming. I hated how easily her aunt could manipulate her memories, particularly when she made Scar think that Gideon had slept with her aunt, making Scarlet beat Gid up. Her bitch aunt tried to kill her and that made me all teary-eyed, but Scarlet ends up killing her aunt in the end, so it's all good. I love that she was "addicted" to Gideon (I mean, who the hell isn't?).

Gideon...ohhhh, Gideon. My love. My favorite Lord. What would I do without you? I would cease to exist, that's what. He's so loyal, smart, sexy, aggressive, determined, and utterly beautiful. It's both fun and frustrating to try and decipher Gideon Speak; sometimes it's easy to figure out, sometimes it's hard. And poor Gid and all the sucky situations he was put in; man, was he tortured. He definitely earned his female. I love that Lies couldn't tell if Scarlet was lying or not because she believed what she said was true but they were fake memories (I love the confusion, not the fake memories part). It was weird, but cool, that his demon could leave him, and I love how shocked he was to find that his demon was a girl. I have to say that, as much as it was cool that his demon could leave him for a little bit, it was weird for me to see him saying the truth and not feeling any pain; and I loved when he told Scar that he loved her and she said she never wanted to hear him say that again because it means "I hate you" in Gideon Speak.

Amun, that poor guy. He's infected by demons! It broke my heart to see him so messed up. On a lighter note, he mentions having feelings for Kaia...this supports my hope of the two of them being HEAs for each other!

Ugh, Legion is back. Damn.

Galen is a psycho but I love that Scarlet was able to get to him.

I love that Lies and Nightmares were lovers. One of the funniest parts was when they came out of Gid and Scar and just started having sex on the floor.

I still don't like Sienna but I'm definitely interested to see how she is going to play into the next couple books, and how her relationship with Paris is going to progress. And I love that Wrath was trying to direct her to Paris.

I love me some Strider. He's so adorable. And, I may be wrong, but my gut is telling me that he's going to end up with Hadiee/Haidee. Now, some of you are probably saying, "Oh, no! He would never do that! She's the one who killed Baden!" and yes, I remember that, but the two of them are already attracted to each other. Plus, she challenges him in a way no other female has before and I think he likes that.

I knew the chickie Hunter was Hadiee/Haidee from the moment Strider described her, particularly when he said there was something familiar about her. So, I'm definitely interested to see how she is going to play into the rest of the series, also.

I love William and Gilly together; I think they're so cute together. And I love that she threw a temper tantrum because he didn't tell her that he was going on a trip and he wouldn't take her with. Little did she know, he was going to kill her mother and stepfather for the way they treated her before she ran away. That makes me love Willie all the more. I wonder, also, exactly why Lucifer is afraid of William. Also, it was so adorable that Willie was calling for Gilly when Lysander brought him back from hell.

There were a lot of the gods and goddesses in this one, particularly Cronus and Rhea, and I think I liked that. My favorite part, though, was when Scarlet and her aunt were fighting, and Cronus and Gideon watch the fight from the sidelines. They're just chilling, eating popcorn; then Gid starts cheering for his girl and Cronus starts getting irritated. Awesome stuff.

I loved the Immortals After Dark cameo in this one, too: Carrow. (And I can't wait for Carrow's book, which comes out soon!)

The Darkest Lie is absolutely my favorite Lords of the Underworld book, and it's even my favorite Gena Showalter book thus far.

~ TEAM GIDLET ~