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Summary: You can't miss this one......
Review: An excellent novel. The first of Christine Feehan's Dark series; also the first one I read - Focuses on the Carpathian "race", lending a unique bend to the world of paranormal romance, where Mikhail ( the Prince of the Carpathians ) and Raven ( a human with psychic capabilities who recently helped the police track down a serial killer ) meet and begin their destiny.
The book is highly sensual and erotic - but more than that, it's an excellent story, as well as a great introduction to the now popular series. All characters are introduced and lend their own zest - in other words, THERE IS A PLOT HERE!
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Summary: Not your normal vampire romance novel
Review: Before reading any of the Dark series, keep in mind that Dark is not just there as window dressing. Dark Prince is the first of these novels. Raven, a young psychic from the US has come to the Carpathian mountains in Rumania for some R&R after helping police track a serial killer. Raven likes her alone time, but is drawn to help the absolute despair she feels in Mikhail's mind. And no, Mikhail is not a vampire. He is a Carpathian, a species of people who look human, but have a different biology. They are shape shifters who live an extraordinarily long time. Sunlight will kill them if exposed for long periods, and they feed by drinking human blood. However, if they kill while feeding they become vamires, and are wholy evil. Carpathians have set themselves up to hunt down vampires, and basically just want to live in peace. Carpathian males lose their colour vision and emotions if they do not find their lifemate. The longer they go without finding their lifemate, the more likely they are to kill while feeding, since it povides them with the only high they can feel. Unfortunately, most of the Carpathians were wiped out several hundred years ago by the Ottoman Turks. And, for some reason, the few remaining pairs have only male children, and have for the last five hundred years or so. Human females that have been converted in the past have had to be destroyed because they are deranged vampiresses.Mikhail believs Raven to be his lifemate, but she is human, and that entails some problems. Also, a group of human vampire hunters have come up to the Carpathian mountains to kill, and aren't too picky about who or what, as long as they believe that their kills are vampires. This is a lovely story, but not for those who aren't willing to accept violence in their romance.
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Summary: An Interesting Premise and A Hero to Die For!
Review: "Dark Prince" by Christine Feehan is a refreshingly original paranormal romance, putting a new spin on the average vampire tale. The premise for the Dark series is highly original and very entertaining. With a dark and dangerous hero who all but sends sparks from the pages, this sexy tale will leave female readers breathless. Feehan has created a fascinating race of people with her Carpathians. Carpathians are immortal beings at one with nature who need blood to survive but never kill those they feed on. They have many special gifts such as the ability to shape-shift into any form, telepathy, and the ability to communicate with animals. However, the Carpathian race is dying out. There are very few female Carpathians left, and nearly all the babies born are male and do not make it through their first year. After centuries of life, male Carpathians lose the ability to see in colour and to feel emotions. The only way to remedy this is to find their lifemate, their female counterpart and the light to their darkness. If the Carpathian cannot find his lifemate, he must either seek the sun and kill himself, or turn into a true vampire, a creature that kills its prey mercilessly, in order to receive the rush of feeling the kill provides. This tale begins as our hero, Mikhail Dubrinsky, prince of the Carpathians, is about to seek the sun and end his life. He can no longer stand the isolation and monotony of his colourless life, and so plans to end his existence. In his bleakest hour, suddenly a human woman makes contact with his mind. The human woman, Raven, convinces Mikhail not to take his life, and Mikhail is so intrigued by her that he seeks her out. Mikhail quickly realizes that since his contact with Raven he is seeing in colour and is feeling real emotions for the first time in centuries. Could this tiny human be Mikhail's lifemate? She is unlike any woman Mikhail has ever met, so lonely and yet so filled with compassion and goodwill. Raven gives Mikhail a gift more precious than any other, the gift of hope for the future. Raven Whitney is visiting the Carpathian Mountains on a well-deserved vacation. She is taking a break from her job of telepathically tracking serial killers, wanting to rid herself of the taint of the sick and twisted minds she has been inside of. But when she meets Mikhail, it seems that relaxation isn't in the cards for her. Raven knows that Mikhail isn't like other men. He is intense and brooding, and seems to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders. Raven is overcome by the powerful feelings she develops for Mikhail in such a short time. And likewise, Mikhail recognizes that Raven is the only woman for him. She is his soul, his heart, his life, and he is hers. But many things stand in the way of Mikhail and Raven's happiness. There is a group of ruthless vampire hunters in the area murdering those they think are vampires and hunting Mikhail's family and friends. Mikhail knows that Raven will be in danger from these assassins and he is determined to protect her at all costs. Mikhail knows he must hunt down the assassins and stop their evil and fanatical campaign, despite the danger to himself. Mikhail longs to make Raven Carpathian like him, for if he does not she will age and die like any human and will take him with her to the grave. Without Raven there is no Mikhail, but every human that they have tried to convert has gone mad and has had to be destroyed. Will Raven be able to deal with the change to Carpathian? Or is insanity all that awaits her? Her psychic gifts may help her through the transformation, but is Mikhail willing to take the risk? As Mikhail tries to keep his people and Raven safe from the fanatics, he must decide what the future holds for himself and Raven. But a horrible incident takes the choice out of Mikhail's hands and now all he can do is wait and see if Raven will survive, and if so, if she will ever be able to forgive him. "Dark Prince" is a wonderfully sexy tale, full of passion and tenderness, danger and suspense. Mikhail is a fantastic hero who readers will fall in love with. Likewise, Raven is a truly beautiful heroine, inside and out, and it's impossible not to love her. Feehan has created an exciting and deeply sensual fantasy world that will captivate readers. This story is fresh and fun and comes highly recommended!
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Summary: A Dark Love Story...
Review: Mikhail needs to meet his lifemate or he will committ suicide to stop himself from changing into a ruthless vampire. Raven enters his head and his prayers for a lifemate have been answered. The only problem is she is human and therefore has many limitations. The risk of changing her into a carpathian is great but with assassins hunting their every move, Raven's life is threatened. Mikhail knows the only way to save her and himself is to change her to one of them and fight the assasins. She is the Carpathian's ONLY hope to continue their race because the males must have life mates to live a carpathian life and they need women to reproduce more female offspring. Women carpathians are a dying breed. Mikhail loves Raven so possesively, he almost suffocates her by controlling her every move, even when she sleeps and how deep. The completeness of his love was beautiful but I imagine if I were Raven I would be very turned off by his obssesive controlling of her. Still, he was an amazing hero and very easy to love! This novel had a strong beginning. I was immediately drawn into the plot but about half way through I felt the pacing become erratic. The story seemed to drag at some points and go too fast at others but I still wanted to find out about these characters because I was in love with them. I became attached to their strong love for each other and felt they were well-rounded characters. If you enjoy love scenes, you will love this novel. Almost every other chapter has a steamy love scene. Every other chapter also had a very violent scene. I am continuing to read the rest of the series because I hear that they only get better. I highly recommend! :)
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Summary: Leaves you breathless..Panting for More
Review: Have you ever read a book and it was so good you are left too breathless to say anything about it? Well this is definatly that type of book. My first..yes I said first..copy of Dark Prince was read so many times while I was waiting for book #2 to come out that I had to go buy another one because it fell apart! Mikhail is my dream man. Hes in control of life and that bleeds into everyone elses. You can feel his energy and power as you continue to read. When he finally finds his lifemate, the two of them burn each and every page up with the sensuality that sparks between them. Thier breathing, sleeping and "feeding" all become an erotic moment for them and in turn the reader. Some may find that they do not like the fact that Mikhail is SO dominate and that Raven eventually "surrenders" to him. One needs to remember that Carpathian males are so old that they grew up when males were the dominate sex and women followed them. Raven will always hold on to some of her independence because she has Mikhail wrapped around her little finger. But everything he demands of her is to keep her safe and alive. He hands everything to her on a GOLD platter and never demands that she do the same for him. She eventually sees this and "surrenders" all. *checks air fare to the Carpathian Mountain region in hopes of finding a man like that still alive*
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Summary: I think I'm in Love!
Review: Mikhail Dubrinsky, prince of the Carpathians, had decided to end his life the night he met Raven. He had given up on ever meeting his life mate and was weary of his existence. Unless a Carpathian male found his life mate, his other half, he lost all emotion and lost the ability to see in color. Plus there was the fear of becoming the monster vampire of folklore.Raven had just helped the police catch a serial killer with her psychic abilities and was on a much needed vacation to blot out the ugliness she had endured while in the killer's mind. She felt Mikhail's pain one night and communicated with him telepathically, hoping to comfort him.I have to say I began the book with some trepidation. Mikhail was very arrogant and bossy. He decided he wanted Raven and proceeded to try to take over her life. Not so many pages later I was in love with him, myself :) Unfortunately for him, Raven was a very independent woman and let him know she thought for herself. Yet, she was comfortable with him as she had never been with anybody else in her life. Always a loner, it was nice to be with him.I loved the whole life mate idea. No Carpathian male could ever cheat on his life mate and the word divorce wasn't even in the Carpathian vocabulary. A bond existed between life mates that linked them together forever. There is so much more to the story but I don't have the room to go into it all. Dark Desire is a great love story with vampires, telepaths, and shape changers as well as vampire hunters and murder and vengeance. Did I mention sex? Lots of that, too.I bought the rest of the series today.
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Summary: I just love these books.
Review: What can you say about this book. It is just great. You have to read it. This is the first author i found that writes great vampire love novels.
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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: This was my first Christine Feehan novel and it will certainly be the last.
The book was badly written and totally unbelievable. To top it off it was boring.
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Summary: Went around in circles. I'm dizzy....
Review: Mikhail, Prince of the Carpathians, is thinking about ending it all when he is contacted by Raven, a telepath. He's suprised to discover she is his 'lifemate', the woman who will save his soul and keep him from becoming a vampire. Even more suprising is that she is a human...
Okay, so the beginning of the book was different. I read the book quite quickly until about page 80 when I realized I was going in circles. After Raven and Mikhail meet in person for the first time, they keep coming back to the fact that Mikhail is to arogant and possessive. After the first sex scene, I felt like I was in a time warp. They argue, make love, and argue again about that same issue. Mikhail refutes it anytime by restating the importance of a lifemate. I had to force my way through the book. If I hadn't read later books in the series, I wouldn't have picked up another one.
Another thing I had trouble with was the fact that the Carpathians are so powerful. They shape-shift into anything and everything, can control people from miles away, and that's just the beginning of the long list. Why not just call them gods? Feehan is expecting me to believe human vampire hunters are a THREAT to these superbeings?
The villians are just plain pathetic. The human vampire hunters are plain stupid. About the only thing they sucessfully accomplish is putting Raven in position were it is imperative that she become a Carpathian.
When does this take place? Oh... it's also good thing that everyone in the little back-waters mountain village knows how to speak fluent English.
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Summary: MARVELOUS
Review: This is the first vampire book that I have read. I am also not a big fan of modern romances, but I really enjoyed this book. It is sexy, charming, suspenseful, has great character development. A lot of villians and action. I will definitely read this other books in this series.
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