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Summary: A captivating, emotionally intense and satisfying read
Review: My sister introduced me to the first book in the series, Dark Prince. I was the one to find Dark Desire on the shelves, and I bought two copies and rushed directly to my sister's house to give her one of them.Jacques is a man teetering on the brink of insanity after years of torment. Shea is a brilliant surgeon with an endless supply of compassion and a lifetime of loneliness, struggling to find the cure for a blood disorder that will eventually claim her life. She is the one person who can keep him from madness, the other half of his soul. He is the one person who can end her loneliness and provide her the unswerving, unconditional love she both needs and fears. Christine Feehan has created a fascinating world, filled with drama, passion, and characters that grab your interest and hang on. The Carpathian life mate bond is an intense merging of souls, wonderfully depicted by Ms. Feehan's talented pen. What woman could resist the idea of a gorgeous man who will love her unconditionally, for all eternity, putting her life and happiness before his own? Whether you're a fan of vampire romance or not, this series is not to be missed for romance readers who love intense, passionate, emotional reads. I can't wait for the next installment. Good job, Ms. Feehan!
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Summary: Wonderful! A must read!
Review: Fighting to survive unendurable torment, Jacques Dubrinsky's shattered mind manages to establish a connection with a stranger. A woman who might be able to save him, or who may be the cause of his agony. American surgeon Shea O'Halloran feels compelled to travel the thousands of miles to the Carpathian mountains, where she discovers a being like none she has ever known. In her desperate race to save Jacques, Shea must face the truth about what he is and about herself. Christine Feehan has given us another can't- put- it -down page turner with Dark Desire, the second book in her series about a race of people who face extinction and are hunted as vampires. I was pulled deep into the emotional impact of Jacques' destructive madness from page one. The relationship between Jacques and Shea reminded me of the Beauty and the Beast story. He desperately needs her but at the same time is dangerous to her, and she is drawn to him in spite of the fact that she knows it may lead to her destruction. Not for the faint of heart, this book does contain some graphic violence and some pretty hot romance. A very well written, entertaining story that I highly recommend.
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Summary: the 1st book i read in the 'Dark' series
Review: This was the first book that I read by Christine Feehan, & it's a very good book. I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 B/c, although the story is very gripping, the villain didn't put up a long enough fight towards the end... it ended in like 2 paragraphs! ~**slash-slash*-*swoosh*-*claw*-*gasp... dead**~ Don't get me wrong- it has a lovely ending! And I would recommend Christine Feehan as much as I would Kinley MacGregor & Sherrilyn Kenyon! Boo~ya!!!
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Summary: Dark Desire
Review: The sequel to Dark Prince was everything I had hoped for and more. Jacques, the egotistical brother to DP's hero Mikhail and a very likable character, was tortured, staked through the chest (but not the heart), and left locked in a coffin in the basement of an abandoned cottage for seven years. In all that time, his only tie to sanity was a tenuous mental link across the ocean with another woman, one he believes to be his traitor but is his lifemate. Shea O'Halloran, an American doctor, doesn't know the dreams she's been having for years are about a real man until she finds him locked in a coffin with a stake through the chest in the Carpathian mountains. She feels drawn to this man whom she believes has the same blood disease she does, but as she tries to help this tortured man who claims she is his life mate she comes across the secret to her own past. I really, really loved the hero in this book. Christine Feehan had taken the tortured hero to a new level, yet let us retain our pity and adoration for him. Jacques is the epitome of a tortured hero, and those who read the previous book may feel more deeply the loss of the funloving yet sarcastic brother. The heroine is strong as well; she has to be to be able to put up with/recuperate the tortured Jacques. We also get a glimpse at the previous characters and get some ideas on future book characters. I very much recommend this book, whether you like vampire romances or not.
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Summary: a great read!
Review: From the back of the book... The stranger silently summoned her from across the continents, across the seas. He whispered of eternal torment, of endless hunger...of dark, dangerous desires. And somehow American surgeon Shea O'Halloran could feel his anguish, sense his haunting aloneless, and she ached to heal him, to heal herself. Drawn to the far Carpathian mountains, Shea found a ravaged, raging man, a being like no other. And she trembled. For in his burning eyes, his icy heart, she recognized the beloved stranger who'd already become part of her. This imperious Carpathian male had compelled Shea to his side. But was she to be his healer...or his prey? His victim...or his mate? Was he luring her into madness...or would his dark desire make her whole?
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Summary: Wild, Scary and Immensely Sensual Ride
Review: Dark Desire is Christine Feehan's second novel in the marvelous Dark series, and it is even more intense than the first. Jacques has been a powerful protector of his people, the Carpathians of Eastern Europe, for hundreds of years. He uses his enormous supernatural mental and physical powers to hunt and destroy vampires and to protect the weak. However, his abilities to see colors and to feel emotions have withered. He's trapped in a bleak, solitary existence, for he has not found his lifemate'the one female who is the other half of his soul, the light to his darkness. His predatory instincts have intensified, and his darkness threatens to overwhelm him so that he is close to turning into a vampire. He must find his mate soon. To make matters worse, evil human vampire hunters are convinced he is a vampire. With the help of a mysterious vampire who hates Jacques, the humans catch and torture Jacques mercilessly, driving a stake near his heart and burying him alive. Jacques manages to live on for seven years, attracting small animals into his coffin and drinking their blood for sustenance. His hatred of his torturers and his need for revenge are a growing cancer in his soul that keeps him alive. During this time Jacques is mentally aware of a human woman, a doctor whom he thinks is linked to the group that tortured him. In his extreme state of weakness, she is the only person left that he can contact through his mind. He often inflicts his pain on her, enraged that she refuses to come free him'seeing this as evidence of her guilt. Shea O'Halloran is a gifted American surgeon, full of goodness and compassion for her patients. She is puzzled as to why she is sometimes seized with pain and often has dreams in which she sees a man's tortured face. She has always been a loner, afraid of contact with others because of the bizarre blood disorder she has been unable to identify or cure. She often requires transfusions to stay alive. She decides to go the Carpathian mountains, the birthplace of the father she never knew, in order to further her research in the hope of finding a cure for her condition. Instead, she is drawn to a hidden cellar where she finds Jacques buried! Although he attacks her, she rescues him and nurses him back to health. Jacques comes to realize that she is not one of his tormentors but the lifemate he'd been searching for over centuries. He possessively burns for her and can barely prevent himself from claiming her, body and soul, against her will. Shea is horrified to feel such a strong pull to Jacques. And not only because he's lost all memory of his life prior to his burial and is violent and unpredictable. Mostly she fears ever to love or to need anyone. For the intensity with which her own mother obsessed over Shea's absent father led her to be a terrible mother and finally to commit suicide. Shea and Jacques are forced to deal not only with the tremendous electric sensuality and fear between them but also with others appearing in their lives who may or may not be vampires. And the danger that Jacques'who is now more beast than man'will kill them or Shea is ever present. As Jacques begins to remember his past and to heal both physically and emotionally, his skills are taxed to the limit, as are Shea's. Dark Desire is a wild, scary and immensely sensual ride that grows ever more intense as danger mounts and Shea and Jacques grow to fervently love each other. I didn't mind that the mysterious villain is easy to guess because the action and emotion are so intense that every page is a thoroughly entertaining adventure.
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Summary: Carpathian lifemate and lover
Review: This is the second installment in Chritine Feehan's Dark series. Jacques is a powerful, Carpathian, an immortal vampire like being. He's been buried alive by vampire hunters. From the Carpathian moutains he calls out with his mind across the oceans to Shea O'Halloran, an American surgeon and his lifemate. Shea has been having vivid dreams in the last few years which lead her to the Carpathian mountains in Eastern Europe where she uncovers Jacques who has been buried alive for the past 7 years. She tries to do her best to revive him, with her surgeon skills and finds herself wildly attracted to him but cannot accept such a strong feeling that she is Jacques lifemate. Jacques and Shea can communicate through their minds and Shea does not know whether she likes Jacques invading her every moment but she feels that she cannot feel when she is cut off from him. Lurking in the background are evil forces, a vampire ie a carpathian who has turned to the dark side, is hunting them and wishes to destroy them. Through all the danger will Shea be strong enough to accept Jacques love and to fight with him against the darker forces. In this book we are also introduced to other characters such as Jacque's brother, Mikhail and his wife, Raven (their story is featured in Dark Prince the first in the series which I still have to read) and Gregori, the healer who is featured in a later book. I enjoyed this book. It was very dark and intense. However, I did find there was a lot of repetitiveness when Jacque repeats over and over again about being lifemates with Shea. I'm not sure if I will read the whole series if the others turn out to be a rehash of the same story. Still this book stands well on its own without having read the first one. Lealing
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Summary: the 1st book i read in the 'Dark' series
Review: This was the first book that I read by Christine Feehan, & it's a very good book. I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 B/c, although the story is very gripping, the villain didn't put up a long enough fight towards the end... it ended in like 2 paragraphs! ~**slash-slash*-*swoosh*-*claw*-*gasp... dead**~ Don't get me wrong- it has a lovely ending! And I would recommend Christine Feehan as much as I would Kinley MacGregor & Sherrilyn Kenyon! Boo~ya!!!
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Summary: Totally erotic
Review: Once I picked it up, I couldn't put it down until I turned the last page. This is one of the most erotic books I have ever read. Romance, intrigue, drama, and suspence is what you will find plenty of in this book. I will now read all of the other books in the dark series written by Christine Feehan.
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Summary: Dark tormented love story
Review: This is a great example of using character development. Shea thinks she is dying until she stumbles on Jacques who has been tortured and left to starve to death for 7 years. This story explores how people learn to trust each other and overcome their fear. It is a 'hard' book in that it is not soft and fuzzy. Jacques has become a hard man and barely sane from his ordeal. The interaction with other characters provides some continuity to the series, but the book could be read alone. I like to re-read this as it explores how and what makes us human and the darker side of love.
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