When I read the blurb for Fantasy Lover I was definitely intrigued. While I assumed it would follow similar paranormal romance tropes it still had a somewhat original premise that I personally hadn't read before. Also, it was obvious to anyone with eyeballs that it would be plenty smutty. So, I decided to just jump in and see what happened without a lot of expectations. 
 The gist of Fantasy Lover is there's this book that holds Julian of Macedon (a Macedonian general who was cursed to be a sex slave) and in order to summon him you had to say his name 3 times at midnight on a full moon. Our heroine summons him as a joke to appease her friend and it turns out that it's not a joke and Julian actually appears. Then there's love, smut, curse breaking, a HEA, etc... insert the usual paranormal romance tropes here. My first thoughts after the summoning were: Is this going to be like a sexy version of Beetlejuice? Luckily it wasn't because that would have been alarming to say the least. What I did get was just a light, steamy, ridiculous, paranormal romance which was exactly what I was in the mood for. 
 Fantasy Lover may not have been remarkable it was still enjoyable. I had fun reading it. It had a lot of fun stuff going for it. For example, Julian's ability to turn any response to any statement or question sexual was pretty amusing. The smut was pretty steamy too. (view spoiler)[ However, the way to break Julian's curse was that they couldn't have sex until just before midnight on his last day. Yes, the entire premise of an "erotic" paranormal romance was that the main characters couldn't bone... I know, right? But they get creatively smutty and I didn't mind the lack of boning really. (hide spoiler)] On the other hand, there was a lot that was kind of a mess here too. It's like all in the course of this one random month all this bad shit starts to go down in Grace's life but luckily she has a dashing warrior sex slave to save her! Grace is so mild mannered and now all of a sudden her life is constantly in danger? Yes, I know she also has a magic sex slave she summoned from a book but still... this whole thing is entirely preposterous! 
 Here's the thing... if you don't stop to think about how preposterous the whole thing is it's actually kind of fun. The plot is so silly it's basically the premise for either a mediocre novel or an amazing porno. Since I got into the outrageous charm of Fantasy Lover I'm just going to count this as an amazing porno. Since I kind of like the crazy this book was dishing, I think I'm going to continue on with the series for at least one more book. Next up is Kyrian's story. I was pretty intrigued by him from the few times he was mentioned in Fantasy Lover so I'm down to see where this one goes. Now I'm off to see what further lunacy awaits me in this series! 
 P.S. I just noticed that this came out in 2002. Since its 2017 now it means that Sherilyn Kenyon has had 15 more years of writing experience. So maybe the books will get better going forward? Time will tell.