Kiss of the Night actually was much better than I was initially expecting in the end. This is the fourth book in the main Dark-Hunter series, but probably not one of my favourites. I think this is because I struggled to connect with Cassandra or Wulf, or believe in their romance as it all felt rather forced at the beginning. I would say that the Dark Hunter series always has an unconventional way of pairing together the two main characters. In this one it was a bit more bizarre as the two started their relationship in dreamscapes rather than in person and actually it got much better when they met in person.

Despite not liking Cassandra and Wulf all that much, I do enjoy the backdrop to the series and the world. For those that haven't read the books Kenyon mixes up the supernatural with Greek mythology. As a result of Greek God conflict, a race of curse individuals called the Apollites were created. These are supernatural creatures who cannot venture out in the day, who drink from each other to survive and will die on their 27th birthday. Some of them also have psychic powers and various abilities. The only way they can avoid death is to feed off human souls and turn to demons. They are in essence then vampires. In order to prevent the world being overrun by daimons, Artemis has an immortal group of warriors known as the Dark-Hunters who have given up their soul to her (usually in exchange for the ability to exact revenge on someone that wronged them and gained immortality). They then are granted with various powers, fangs, and also cursed to only walk the night as they hunt the daimons down. The problem is Dark-Hunters are forced to be loners as they cannot interact with each other physically or their powers wane. Their leader is Acheron, who is a mysterious, seemingly super powerful guy that helps intercede on their behalf with Artemis and is always very vague and mysterious. This creates a very complex, but interesting world as there are also Were-Hunters, Dream-Walkers, oracles, etc.

The premise of this book is that Cassandra is part of the cursed-Apollite race and is nearing her 27th birthday. Dark-Hunters are also forbidden from engaging with Apollites. Therefore, in order for her and Wulf to be together, they both have to break the rules, but also accept that in a matter of months Cassandra is going to die. This created quite a lot of tension in their relationship that just felt forced to me and I didn't really like that. I also found Cassandra a little bit annoying as a character.

Although I wasn't necessarily sold on the relationship between Wulf and Cassandra as much, I was reminded that there are lots of elements in this series that I do like such as the humour, the action, the overarching plot lines etc. I'll be reading the next book for sure, and the third book in this series I loved a lot, so I know there are always going to be books I enjoy more/less in this series.