And Lydia essentially ends up doing that for Seth. It honestly reminded me of when I had to teach my dad how to use a computer and how oblivious he was. Since the last time he was in the human world was YEARS before electricity was even thought of it was quite funny. The hilarious part of this exchange between them is when Seth gets a laptop and is trying to figure out how to use it.

Lydia however doesn’t want to be raped and wants to save her dad. We know from Seth’s point of view he had no intention to harm her and just wants to be left alone by Noir and Azura so he can focus on finding the “Key” they’ve told him to find. Seth, again obviously, has no idea what she’s on about with the symbols she’s making with her fingers but he can tell she’s not happy.Īt this stage I honestly didn’t know who to feel for more. Lydia being mute tries to sign to him since that’s the language she uses to speak to her dad and others. He started off all intimidating and scary and threatening to Lydia, who for obvious reasons was pretty scared and what had happened to her. He was someone I had mixed feelings about for probably the first quarter of the book. Seth on the other hand has been a slave to Noir and Azura for over a millennia and is really sick of it. This on top of everything else we’ve learnt about Azura really makes me hate her even more. Azura then gives Lydia to Seth as a plaything to keep him amused since she didn’t really have anything better to do with Lydia and wanted to make sure she was getting tortured. Except with her typical bad luck she gets caught and delivered to Azura. Since he finally owned up to doing the right thing and helped the rest of his fellow Dream Hunters he got captured and is now stuck in a dungeon possibly dying. I can really feel for her since he’s all she’s got in the world, and from someone who is pretty close to my dad I can empathise with her.

We kick off this book with Lydia sneaking into Noir’s stronghold to try and rescue her dad. But evil is always seductive.Welcome back all, I hope you like this review because this is one of my favorite books in the series. If she fails, an ancient curse will haunt the earth once more and no one will be safe. Then there’s the beautiful Dream-Hunter Lydia: She isn’t just guarding the gates of Olympus-she’s holding back one of the world’s darkest powers. No matter the torture, Seth hasn’t been able to break the god in his custody.

If he can’t hand over the entrance to Olympus, his own life and those of his people will be forfeit. What she never expects is to be taken prisoner by the Realm’s most vicious guardian…Seth’s time is running out. Dream-Hunter Lydia has been charged with the most sacred and dangerous of missions: To descend into the Nether Realm and find the missing god of dreams before he betrays the secrets that could kill her and her kind.

The Guardian by Sherrilyn Kenyon