Dark Fire

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Summary: Fast, Entertaining Read
Review: Another book in the "Dark" series is out for Christine Feehan's fans. Once again she's provided an imaginative, exciting read. But be aware that the Dark Series is not for the faint of heart although not as violent as the Anita Blake books, the Dark books do include vampires, evil doers, and action. In this particular book the lead character is Gregori's younger brother Darius who along with his sister and several others are the lost Carpathians from the Ottoman Turkish invasion of Europe in the middle ages. The group has survived and flourished but do not have the knowledge of their culture that the previous characters have had. Naturally, this puts the hero at a disadvantage when he first meets his life mate (the Carpathians mate for life with only one partner when they finally find one). Tempest, a human, has some understandable reservations about a relationship with an attractive, dynamic man who just doesn't happen to be human. Remember that when reading this series, the Carpathians aren't human and don't have human values or behavior. Although the book can be read on its own, it is helpful to read the series so that the reader can get the full picture of the Carpathian world.

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Summary: Wonderful!!!
Review: I absolutely love Ms. Feehan's Dark Series, but Dark Fire is my favorite! I finally had to buy her books.

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Summary: The Best One
Review: I'll keep this brief. Those who read Christine Feehan's Dark Series know the premise. I just wanted to add some stars to the review of this book, so that her fans know that this is NOT one to skip. I've read five of her books since Nov. (it is now Dec.), and found the writing to be very uneven. Some are more entertaining than others, though I have enjoyed all to one degree or another. Feehan's fans all seem to agree that she can be very repetitious--whether in theme, dialog, or characters. Dark Fire, however, is wonderfully different in that the characters are much more unique. Darius doesn't use his need to see to his lifemate's health and happiness as an excuse to force his will on her, and Tempest stays in character. In addition, I love her character! It's very fresh and (well to be rather repetitious myself) unique. I didn't keep this as brief as I thought I would, but I just enjoyed it so much that I had to rave a bit!

I hope this helps those of you who, like me, read the reviews before deciding to read the next book in a series-- Don't skip this one!


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Summary: WONDERFUL!!!
Review: lOVED THIS BOOK. THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES. ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON. SHE IS ALWAYS INTO SOMETHING AND HE IS ALWAYS PULLING HIS HAIR OUT. FUNNY AND JUST GREAT!

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Summary: The Best Dark Book So far....
Review: While I have truly enjoyed all the Dark series books thus far, this one is THE best (so far). Do read them in order if you can, but hold on tight--for this one. I believe in giving your loved one the ultimate choice of his/her future - and if they even want a future with you...then they must choose it. This time, in this book, Tempest has a choice - it s not made for her. I am not giving this story line away, but I love the interaction of these two characters. Just fantastic!

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Summary: PAINFUL READ
Review: It took everything in me to finish this book and not put it down. This has to be one of the worse books I have read in a long time. If I had to read "honey or baby" one more time I was going to rip all the pages out. Darius was a overbearing you know what but at the same time Tempest/Rusti was just a plain ol dummy. If someone told me don't go over there because it's very dangerous why am I going to go, just stupid. I could have read a little more about Barack and Syndil. The one star is for the love scene that was the only thing worth while. I even got tired of that.

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Summary: This book is great!
Review: I have been reading Christine Feehan's books since the first one and each on is a great book. After writing so many books about the Carpathian's, you would think that the subject would get stale, but this book proves that you don't know everything !
This book brought back some old characters from previous books and introduced a new character that will surely have their own book. I can't wait!

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful!!!
Review: I absolutely love Ms. Feehan's Dark Series, but Dark Fire is my favorite! I finally had to buy her books.

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Summary: Needs a different formula!
Review: This book wanted to be great. Feehan wants to write very descriptive, entrancing books, which she sets the stage for in the first 20 pages or so, but then the plot stagnates. There is no forward momentum. Just the same feelings, the same argument described OVER and OVER. Just when you think she is going to explore a new avenue, she sticks with the tried and overused. I read the whole book because I really liked the premise and some portions of the book truly could spark my imagination but in the end I left the book frustrated and growling. Also I believe you could diagnosis some sort of relationship dysfuction in Darius. Everytime he called Rusti "Baby" or "Honey" it made my skin crawl. Big strong tough man needs to reduce his lover to the status of a child in his mind in order to gain control of her. Rusti's character was strong, self sufficient, reslient in the face of all of lifes adversities and her reduced her to "baby, honey, sweetie". When he took over her self control, I felt defeated too. Its one thing to tame the iron-willed female, that is sexy, but to outright squash her into submission is lame.