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Summary: Formulaic and dull
Review: The Carpathian series is slowly but surely petering out. The characters in this book are carbon copies of prior characters (the brooding, sexy, dark, handsome male paired with a weak-but-strong female) fitted into a predictable story line: meet, face a bit of danger, mate, convert, end. It's as if nothing happens to these couples once they are bonded, to wit, the bit about Tempest and Darius that pops up here. We're told Tempest has only been brought over for two weeks, yet she's fully adjusted to her new life. Sheesh, it took me months to get used to being married, and I didn't have to give up daylight and real food in the process! Time to put this to pasture - it was a good run while it lasted.
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Summary: Let's be honest here...
Review: This was an adequate Feehan romance - readable, but not one of her best. Why? Not enough sex! Nothing happens until the last few pages. Of course, there's more to a good romance novel than the love scenes, but honestly!
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Summary: A world that exists only for love...
Review: Though as a Carpathian male Dayan long ago lost his own emotions, he is still able to make beautiful music, evoking passion in the hearts of many. Until he meets Corrine, he has none of his own. When he finds her at one of his concerts, he finds what is missing. Corrine is unlike the other heroines who have saved the Carpathians. While many of them rival Wonder Woman, Corrine, though brave and strong, is pregnant, and barely clinging to life herself. This is a case where neither the man or woman can exist without the other. Saving Corrine's life is the only way to save his own for Dayan. When she tries to save a friend's life, though, Corrine may have put not only her life, but her unborn child and Dayan in peril. **** This is the most moving of the Dark series. Ms. Feehan has created a world that exists only for love, and puts passion in its proper place. Dayan is much like Caleb, only gentler, for all Port Charles fans in withdrawal. **** Reviewed by Amanda
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Summary: Not the greatest
Review: Well, I have to say that I have read most of this series and it just keeps getting worse. The dialogue between Corinne and Dayan is insipid. This whole story (and I use that word lightly) could have been told in about 25 pages. If you've read one of the books in this series you've read them all!
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Summary: I can't wait for more
Review: When we first encountered Dayan I wondered how long it would be before he showed up in his own book and who his lifemate would be and what she would be like. While I liked the way the lifemates were challenged and the way that characters from previous books were brought in, I didn't really care for the Lisa character. For someone that professed to care so much about Corinne, she was in the way too much.
Overall, I loved the book, there were just a few irritants that you have to wade thru to get to the good stuff. And let's start delving more into the reasons why there are so many fertility problems and infant deaths for the Carpathians.
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Summary: Thin and tediously predictable
Review: When you have read one Dark book, you have read them all. And in this case, we get a rehash of tons of other characters from the previous books, as well as info on this couple, which is so dull we don't really care about them. The trouble with writing fantasy is that if you have to explain so much about what it means to be Carpathian, the author is breaking the basic rule of show, not tell. Intrusive authorial voices went out with the Victorians! As for the erotic component, well, blood is not that thrilling. Nor indeed any other bodily fluid, really! We are what we are, human of vampire. And like in Emma holly's recent books, or Sherrilyn Kenyon's there really has to be something suspect about casting a spell on someone just to have sex with them, or to have sex with them just because you are meant to be together-there is no suspense or build up at all, just wind up toys having male/female 'physical activity' as this website calls it. If you also add on the fact that the editing in this book is so shoddy and careless that I laughed through most of it, (I loved the 'garnished attention' too, I think the Carpathians have really had their day.
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Summary: Not her best....
Review: While I love the Dark series (Dark Fire is my favorite) this was not Ms. Feehan's best effort. One of the secondary characters, Lisa, is just plain annoying. Enough already about the 'trauma' she suffered as a child. This character detracted from the story line and I really hope this is the last time we hear of her. There was too much dialogue but it didn't do enough to make me feel that there was any real danger to any of the characters. I did like the fact that some of the Carpathians from previous books were reintroduced. All in all, the Dark series is still one of my all time favorites and I'm waiting for the next installment.
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Summary: Tender
Review: With grace and tenderness Ms Feehan writes a moving love story of two people desperate for answers and running out of time. In her most compassionate and moving story Ms Feehan takes readers into a world where incurable illness can be cured, where life and love are eternal,where family stands together and the bond of blood is the bond of life, the world of the CARPATHIANS. Begin with Dark Prince and read through the series savoring each story and learning the way of the Carpathians. As you do you see the true gift Ms Feehan has for writing and how her talent has grown and blossomed. They just keep getting better and better. Way to go Christine. We LOVE YOU and we love those sexy Carpathian guys.
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