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  • By: Sylvia Day
  • Narrator: Shana Savage
  • Category: Fiction, Paranormal, Romance
  • Length: 8 hours 1 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: October 09, 2012
  • Language: English
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Pleasures of the Night Audiobook Summary

There are sensuous pleasures that can only be tasted in the night . . .

He comes to her in the twilight between sleep and consciousness to fulfill her secret desires. Lyssa Bates has never experienced such ecstasy, brought to her by a man whose deep, soul-penetrating blue eyes hold the promise of tempting intimacies and decadent pleasures. But this stranger, this lover, this immortal seducer is only a dream–a phantom of her nocturnal fantasies–until he appears, inexplicably, at her door in the flesh!

Lyssa aches for the reality of him, but there is grave danger in surrender. Because Captain Aidan Cross is on a mission, and the passion that consumes them both, body and soul, could have dire consequences in a world of dreams . . . and in the waking one as well.

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Pleasures of the Night Audiobook Narrator

Shana Savage is the narrator of Pleasures of the Night audiobook that was written by Sylvia Day

Sylvia Day is the #1 New York Times and #1 international bestselling author of over 20 award-winning novels sold in more than 40 countries. She is a #1 bestselling author in 23 countries, with tens of millions of copies of her books in print. Her Crossfire series has been optioned for television by Lionsgate.

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Sylvia Day is the author of Pleasures of the Night

Pleasures of the Night Full Details

Narrator Shana Savage
Length 8 hours 1 minutes
Author Sylvia Day
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date October 09, 2012
ISBN 9780062247339

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The publisher of the Pleasures of the Night is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Paranormal, Romance

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The publisher of the Pleasures of the Night is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062247339.

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This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Rose

September 12, 2012

This is my 1st book by Silvya Day and all I can say is oh em gee!! LOL! I was completely taken by surprise with the sex scenes in this book. I knew when I decided to give this type of book a try, based on the description that it would have some erotic scenes but was shocked when I read the 1st page! I gotta say though, I quite enjoyed it and plan to buy the next book in the series. Though I'm a bit dissapointed to find out she doesn't have plans to continue the series till later due to dissagrements with the publisher. If you're looking for a recommendation on it, I give it a 5 stars, definitely worth the read.

Sonia

September 29, 2021

4.5 Stars for this unique story on dreams Aiden Cross is a dream guardian- one who protects people while they sleep in order to prevent nightmares. Sometimes, he invades dreams (especially women's) in order to help them out; sometimes he pleases women, sometimes he fights battles- it all depends. In these dreams, the guardians can create scenes, whether it's romantic, nostalgic, or just fun. Aiden and the others have been warned about "The Key"- a person who is able to control their dreams, see the Guardians' true identities, and have the power to open the Gateway where nightmares can come through. Lyssa has always had a hard time going to sleep, especially after she realized the kinds of dreams she could have (when she was young). She knows somehow she's different; she's seen specialists and has taken medication in the past, but she's over doing this now. Then Aiden comes to her in her dream and it was HOOOOOOT🔥🔥🔥. As soon as he invades her dream, the chemistry flares up. In dreams, Aiden can assume the identity of what women find pleasurable. When he appears, Aiden and Lyssa are intimate after they talk for a little bit- and it's because their connection is THAT instant😅- it's almost like they're meant to be together- and it's incredibly erotic and STEAMY🥵🔥! Even after he leaves, he’s put in a position to continue "pleasing" women, but he ends up calling for backup since he can't go through with it. Even when he knows he needs to stop pursuing her, he👏🏻just👏🏻can't! Eventually, her dreams come true, and he shows up at her house- in person- because he can't stop thinking/caring about her🥰. It becomes evident quickly that Lyssa is "The Key" and it's troublesome because the Elders wanna destroy her, and at this point, Aiden wants her and cares for her. There are a lot of lies that have been told based on this "key" and what guardians are supposed to do- and it's Aiden's job to get some answers (and other people too- that's when we get introduced to Conor- the H is book 2). Because this is told in the third-person, we get a lot of perspectives. There were so many characters mentioned that I found it hard to keep track of them all- but the writing is so well done that I didn't find myself feeling lost. ⚠️Safety squad⚠️-OW: after the H and h have sex in her dreams, he continues doing his job as a guardian and has a naked woman in front of him (remember, he appears in people's dreams when they "call" for a man) but he can't do anything since he only wants the h, so he calls for a backup and decides that he can no longer do this part of his job- he'll stick to fighting instead💁🏻‍♀️-cheating: Maybe😬? the h is in a relationship with OM but they're never intimate (they're pretty casual about it) and she ends up breaking up with him (after she's intimate with the H in her dreams😅)She wasn't "physically" having sex with the H since it was in her dreams, but it FELT like it was real... -mild OM drama (with the bf/ex but it doesn't cause any drama really)

Kat

November 14, 2013

I rented this book in the audiobook format. I have to say, reading Sylvia Day's books is one thing, and hearing it is a completely different experience! Listening to this book allowed my imagination to dig deeper into the story and its characters. This is a very hot and steamy take on dreams and nightmares. It totally had me dreaming of my own Aidan Cross before I even made it to the end.I won't give spoilers away though, because A) I don't want to ruin it for any one of you, and B) this book is already a pretty short one and I'd hate to take even one more tidbit of it from you.A short synopsis: This main storyline is about the Guardians who live in the Twilight. Their Elite team fight against the nightmares that threaten to take over their world and harm the subconscious of us humans. Love is found along the way between a Guardian and a Dreamer (human). And of course, it won't be a Sylvia Day creation without some erotic lovemaking scenes.Note: The story does not conclude after this book. And to be honest, it doesn't even conclude after the 2nd book in the series (Heat of the Night). However, if you want a light read that's sexy and unique, I recommend the books in the Dream Guardian Series. If you're worried about the conclusion to the main plot, there WILL be a 3rd book. I'm not sure when it will be released, but right now it's tentatively titled Rhythms of the Night. Maybe and hopefully we'll get the plot answers then.

S.M.

January 02, 2020

I purchased this book from Half Priced Books to read. All opinions are my own. 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Pleasures of the Night by Syliva Day. Hard working Lyssa Bates is exhausted but sleep eludes her. One night in her dreams a man comes to her and he is absolute perfection. Everything a woman could dream of......once he realizes she can see exactly who he is he becomes afraid of disrupting his world and hers so he goes to her only in her world she has no idea who he is only that he seems familiar. It doesnt take long for him to tell her an unimaginable story that puts both of their lives in jeopardy. The sex is so good neither of them want to part and both is willing to die to save the other. Review also posted on Instagram @borenbooks, Library Thing, Twitter @jason_stacie, Facebook, Amazon, Goodreads/StacieBoren and my blog at readsbystacie.com

Tofu

April 10, 2013

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and read it in one day. It is hot hot HOT! The sex is amazing. I will say that I connected so with the emotional aspects brought out during sex between the two main characters too...a couple of scenes had me crying they were so touching. But most were hot. I also loved the theme of this book dealing with our dream world and supernatural beings involved therein. Very original storyline to me anyway. LOL I do wish that there had been a bit more background into the whole Guardian story. I got to the end of the book and learned they could hover/fly and was like what? This is something I should have been told in the beginning! Also the fact that they are aliens seemed to totally be glossed over when I think that is a pretty big part of the back story! I was also disappointed in the ending. Not how it ended but the telling of it. It was WAY to fast and tidy and left many more questions than answered. I will read all the others in this series though and look forward to them, but I do hope they provide some more history into the Guardians world.

Toni

July 01, 2019

Still good. Still have the same feelings from the last time I read it. Cool concept. Too much sex but what would I expect from a Sylvia Day book, right? That is sort of her MO. Dream Guardian concept was my favorite part.

Victoria

March 21, 2019

Super steamy with a paranormal twist that reminded me a little of the Fever series. This was fun and had an entertaining story. Sylvia Day is great erotic writing that has a little bit of substance.

Britt

November 10, 2012

3.5Sylvia Day is one of my all time favourite readers and she never manages to dissapoint. She manages to mesh the genres that she has chosen whether it be historical or paranormal so well with the romance and erotica part of her books. I've never been left feeling like oh well there could have been more sex, or there could have been less of it etc.This book is no exception. "He was a dream, an alien, a man centuries older than she was. She was a threat, a prophecy, the key to his destruction. The distance between them yawned galaxies and planes of existence apart, and yet he was yang to her yin, a living puzzle piece that by some miracles made his physically able to fit her, just as males of her own species did." In Pleasures of the Night Aidan Cross is an alien who is captain of an Elite squad who help to fight off the Nightmares and protect Dreamers from their wraith. For Aidan this protection involves helping dreamers by fulfilling their sexual fantasties. He has slept with thousands of women in their dreams but has never experienced such desire until Lyssa Bates. However with Lyssa under suspicion of being the 'key' a legend that has the power to unleash the Nightmares into the human world and therefore must be executed, Aidan has to choose between his growing desire for Lyssa and the mission he has been working an eternity to achieve. I thought this book was extremely original. The idea and plot is not something that I have really seen before and I have to give it to Day's creativity. However even though this is a new idea, I didn't feel confused at all because it is well explained, without becoming boring. That said there is necessary world building in this novel and until some of Day's other novels there wasn't the whole idea of a 'slow burn' but rather them jumping into bed with each other. However that didn't seem to faze me. I probably would have liked greater insight into Lyssa as a character because although Aidan was established as a efficient fighter and captain who is struggling with the ideas and directives he has followed his whole life, we don't really see as much of Lyssa's personality, her past, her present, her feelings etc. However that said I am looking forward to Connor's book.

Claire

August 16, 2013

First impression: This book doesnt quite live up to the crossfire novels but it is good enough to read. Id like to point out that im never a fan of the word 'cunt' being used referring to someone's genitals so that word does not turn me on whilst reading it. it makes me cringe I loved the last 3rd of the book the most. Like I said in my progress, I started out a bit distant and couldnt really connect because I couldnt quite grasp how 2 strangers could fall so helplessly dependant of eachother within the first meet. Then I was a bit taken aback with how much she trusted aiden- a complete stranger knocking at her door. She may have felt a 'feeling' of knowing him but if someone knocked at my door saying they knew me, id want answers first... ...then i remembered this is a fantacy book lol. Anyway THEN i started really enjoying the book. I liked the storeyline- it was different from my usual vampire, demon genre. I liked the alternation between normal earth and the dream dimension. Then it got really intense, and I was quite sad (almost shed a tear) when they had to seperate! I really felt their connection and their deep deep love for eachother. I found that i agreed at one point with aidens best mate connor when in response to aiden's 'better to have loved and lost' comment he said'I don't know about that, man. Im kinda liking this side of the fense. To be honest, it looks a lot greener than your side'.I was starting to wonder if these characters were going to get their HEA!! ...but they did :-)

Megan

March 17, 2021

Sylvia Day never lets me down. Fun characters, steamy scenes. Just what I was looking for. I do wish the ending hadn't been so quick and abrupt. I kind of felt like it just came crashing to a stop.

Pupottina

May 27, 2015

Sylvia Day, come siamo abituati a conoscerla, è una scrittrice prolifica di romance a sfondo erotico. In I PIACERI DELLA NOTTE ha anche sfumature di paranormale.Narra una storia che avviene in un mondo parallelo a quello in cui viviamo. In quel mondo, i Guardiani dei Sogni combattono contro gli Incubi per salvaguardare gli esseri umani. La protagonista è la bella Lyssa Bates, che non sa, non sospetta nemmeno di essere una pedina importante in questo gioco paranormale. Quello che sa è solo quello che ricorda dei suoi sogni, nei quali le appare un uomo passionale e virile, che le dona piaceri indicibili. La situazione arriva ad una svolta inaspettata quando il protagonista di quei torridi amplessi si presenta alla sua porta. Lyssa non riesce più a distinguere tra i piaceri onirici e la realtà. Questa situazione confusa la turba. Lui non è uno qualsiasi, ma l'aitante Capitano Aidan Cross dell'Elite, che combatte le sue battaglie sia contro gli Incubi sia contro l'istinto che lo porta a voler amare e proteggere la bella Lyssa anche nel mondo degli umani. Ma da cosa deve essere protetta Lyssa? Cosa potrebbe metterla in pericolo? Perché Aidan deve recarsi da lei per difenderla?È un erotico paranormale, ricco di suspense ed azione. Aidan è un bel personaggio, uno di quelli che conquista e resta memorabile nelle fantasie femminili.

Martina

May 05, 2022

Aidan Cross je kapetan u Sumraku koji je ujedno i elitni ratnik u borbi protiv snomorica. Snomorice love ljude na zemlji i uništavaju ih noćnim morama. On i drugi elitni ratnici već stoljećima vode borbu sa snomoricama. Snomorice su, kroz dimenziju u koju su upali, uspjeli doći do ljudi, ali dimenzija (Sumrak) u kojoj se nalazi Aidan i njegovi ljudi pokušava ih u tome spriječiti. Aidan je po prirodi dosta znatiželjan i dok je bio dijete je učitelju Sheronu postavljao brojna pitanja. Učitelj Sheron se nakon Aidanova odrastanja priključio starješinama, i Aidan nije mogao shvatiti zašto. Učitelj Sheron darovao mu je privjesak koji Aidan nikad nije skidao. Aidanova zadaća je bila svake noći ući u snove druge osobe i ostvarivati ih i držati snomorice podalje od te osobe. Imali su i komplicirane spavače do kojih je bilo teško doprijeti. Jedan od tih spavača bila je Lyssa Bates. Ona je u svojim snovima stvorila zid i vrata kroz koja snočuvari nisu mogli ući, ako ih ona ne pusti. Jedino je Aidan uspio u tome jer joj se svidio njegov glas. Kroz razgovor i mala bocakanja Aidan i Lyssa su uspjeli uspostaviti komunikaciju. Poslije ugodnog razgovarala je zaspala je na njemu. Kad se Lyssa probudila iz tog sna, bila je bolje no prijašnjih dana, što se svidjelo njezinoj majci Cathy i radnoj kolegici Stacey s kojom je redila u veterinarskoj ambulanti. Kako je Lyssa tražila Aidana, iako to nije praksa, starješine su ga poslali Lyssi jer nijedan drugi snočuvar nije uspio doprijeti do nje. Prije toga su ga ispitali sve o Lyssi i je li ona Ključ. Starješine su snočuvarima nametnule priču kao legendu da je jedan od spavača Ključ kojeg se mora ubiti kako bi se zaustavile snomorice i kako bi oni u Sumraku mogli normalno živjeti. Aidan ih je uvjeravao kako Lyssa nije Ključ. Čak je svoje sumnje oko starješina, postojanja Ključa i ostalih nezadovoljstava iznio svom najboljem prijatelju Connoru. Kad je drugi put došao do Lysse, opet ga je pustila unutra. Ispričao joj je da starješine žele da otvori vrata i drugim snočuvarima što je pristala učiniti. U tom snu su se Aidan i Lyssa jako puno seksali i jako puno približili jedno drugome. Aidan je bio opčinjen Lyssom jer se po prvi put, bez obzira na stoljeća življenja, doista zaljubio. A i Lyssa je osjećala da se zaljubila u njega, iako joj je rekao kako se više neće moći vidjeti. U stvarnom životu, Lyssa je upoznala Chada s kojim je na kraju bila u vezi, ali nije mogla spavati s njim jer joj savjest nije dala. Nakon što je otvorila vrata snova i drugi su je snočuvari posjećivali, Aidan se kod njih raspitivao o Lyssi i saznao je da je u vezi. To ga je malo zaboljelo. Kad je Connor trebao ići kod Lysse, zamijenio se s Aidenom jer Aidan poslije Lysse nije mogao odrađivati seks s ostalim sanjačicama. Taj san su Lyssa i Aidan proveli stalno se seksajući i uživajući jedno u drugome. Zbog kršenja pravila, starješine su Aidana poslali na Vrata gdje je borba sa snomoricama bila žestoka. Ondje je morao ostati dva tjedna. Izdržao je kaznu i pojavio se u Lyssinom snu. Opet je bio s njom i odlučio je da će je probati spasiti od starješina zbog čega joj je rekao da mora zatvoriti vrata i nikoga ne puštati, čak ni njega jer će se drugi pretvarati da je on. Aidan je s Connorom krenuo u pothvat do hrama starješina kako bi otkrio kako doći do Lysse. Aidan je morao zatočiti starješinu i to na kraju svoga učitelja Sherona kojeg je oteo da bi uspio u misiji prolaska do jezera gdje su hipnotizarani ljudi i odande se spojiti u struju koja će ga izbaciti na zemlju. Na zemlju je došao u San Diego, pokupio je odjeću čovjeka na čijim je snovima došao i otišao direkt do Lyssinih vrata. Ona je malo prije toga uspjela razgovorom otjerati Chada, obećavši mu izlazak ovaj vikend. Lyssa je bila malo izgubljena pojavom Aidana na svojim vratima, ali brzo mu se propustila, pa su vodili ljubav na sve moguće načne. On je sutradan otišao s njom i do njezinog radnog mjesta. Na ulazu ih je ulovio Chad te je obećala da će otići s njim na ručak i sve mu objasniti. Stayce je u Aidanu vidjela prijetnju i upozorila ga je da ne smije povrijediti Lyssu. Dok je Lyssa radila i bila na ručku s Chadom, Aidan je kupio odjeću i našao knjige u knjižari vezane za Stonehenge, jer je nešto o tome pročitao u knjigama koje je ukrao od starješina. Kad su se vratili kući, Lyssa i Aidan su se prvo poseksali u garaži, a onda poslije i više puta. Kad je Aidan Lyssi ispričao istinu, da je praktički vanzemaljac, utjelovljenje njezin snova i da doista dolazi iz njegovih snova, mislila je da je lud i tražila je olovku za špricanje paprenog spreja. U trenutku kad je Aidana htjela pošpricati sprejem, na vratima se pojavio usnuli Chad koji ju je napao mačem, ali Aidan se uspješno borio s njim i udarcem ga onesvijestio. Tad je Lyssa povjerovala. Odvezli su Chada do njegove kuće kako bi bio siguran kad se probudi. Iako je bio ljut na nju, Aidan je s Lyssom vodio ljubav dok nije uusnula, a onda je istraživao knjige i svhatio da se mora vratit u Sumrak. Zaspao je i Lyssa nije shvatila da nije tu, dok njezina majka nije otišla nakon što je pogledala usnulog Aidana. Tijelo mu je bilo tu, ali on je bio u Sumraku u kojem su ga zarobile starješine. Connor je s snočuvarom Phillipom Wagerom osmislio plan kojim je želio pomoći Aidanu i tad je otkrio da je Aidan s razlogom bio sumnjičav i da starješine svašta kriju od njih. Lyssa je odlučila pomoći Aidanu i zaspala je uz njega te se pojavila u Sumraku srevši Phillipa. Connor ju je prihvatio u pothvatu da spase Aidana. Okružile su ih snomorice, ali se nisu morali boriti s njima jer su se bojali Lysse. Uspjeli su doći do Aidana i spasiti ga od starješina. Starješine su krenule za njima i Aidan je nakon oproštaja od Lysse nastavio borbu. Učitelj Sheron je Aidanu otrio da ima načina da bude s Lyssom, ali ga sam mora otkriti. Aidan se opet pojavio na Lyssinom pragu nakon što se mjesec dana nisu vidjeli. Ona je bila utučena jer ga se nitko nije sjećao, osim nje, a nju je gubitak bolio. Na kraju su bili sretni što mogu biti zajedno.

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