Book Review: Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

When you read this book two times and you haven't even written a book review the first time...(whoops)

Okay, so hello people, young and old, here's a book review that I haven't written in about five years.

Fantasy Lover is about Mr. Julian of Macedon, first of his name, King of the Andals, so on and so fourth, who is stuck in a book thanks to a curse by fucking Priapus, all because he slept with a virgin that was supposed to sleep with him. Oof. Julian is an old Macedonian general, and whenever he's summoned, all he's supposed to do was please whoever it summoned him, and after a month he's back in the book....

Until he met Grace Alexander, a twenty-something year old sex therapist who summons him and...treats him like a human!? (*le gasp*). Grace teaches him many things-about Peter Pan, about the Hard Rock cafe, she even teaches him about TV (see, if I summoned him, I would've told him about the wide world of anime). Julian, who has been in the book for 2,000 years and is summoned every full moon, has to do whatever his summoner does, which is please them. But he's learning how to be human, and that's when he realizes "oh no, I'm in love with her oh no" BUT BUT the one thing that ticked me off was the ONE TIME he made that damned deal with Athena and says, 'yeah, I'll go back to Macedon, my own time, I don't belong here' which made me mad because he was learning new things, learning how to love...he even told Grace his life story and even went down the elevator hatch to save her from Rodney Carmichael, a creep that stalked the hell out of Grace and thinking that she was his, and he even sold his general ring so he can give her all her books back (my kind of man).

Then at the end, he went back in the book after not spending that night with Grace, and Grace begged and pleaded for someone to bring him back, and the most shocking thing ever is that Aphrodite, Julian's mother, actually reversed time and they had that wonderful, magical night, breaking the curse (hooray). But then...at the end...Priapus appears and went 'nope, since you slept with the girl I was supposed to be with, I'm going to be Mr. Steal Your Girl and steal your girl' and that didn't end well (I mean, Athena AND Aphrodite showed up to help Julian). Julian beats Priapus, and Priapus ends up being in the book, replacing Julian, and then at the end, one year later, Julian and Grace has two twins (yay).

I really loved this book and jumping back in this world made me miss it so much, and Julian of Macedon made it to the *very long list* of boyfriends that I really, really love so much. And if I did summon him through a book, you goddamn right I'm going to introduce him to Jujistu Kaisen, The Folk of the Air series and the Court of Thorns and Roses. Oh and tea. Lots and lots of tea. And coffee. Maybe pinot grigio and the Housewives (I'm going to WRECK his mind if I did all of that)

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