Dark Secret

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Summary: A Few Comments...
Review: "No" still means "no" regardless-hero was too dominating and heroine was too dumb. The storyline just drags on and on and rushes through conclusion at the end. She even gave the vampire more power than the hero. Apparently Ms. Feehan has decided to change this series to horror instead of romance. I'm disappointed too and hope the author will go back and read Dark Magic in order to get this series back on track.

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Summary: This is love??
Review: Colby is fiercely loyal with a steel will. Rafael is also fiercely loyal with a steel will. Unfortunately, they are loyal to two different groups of people on opposite ends of the spectrum and their wills clash every chance they get. Over everything.

Somehow, we're supposed to believe these two are chosen to be lifemates. For each other.

I love the Carpathian males. They're yummilicious. More than a little dominant. Very alpha. And they all take protecting their mate very seriously.

Maybe more so than other Carpathians Rafael seemed emotionally stunted. Granted, Colby did not make things easy on him. She seemed to have lost her sense of humour somewhere along the way. And it would seem to me one would need to keep that in order to be a successful lifemate. Especially to someone as bossy as Rafael. I would love to say that the males need a sense of humour too, but they havent had any emotion for a few hundred years, so I'm guessing they long since forgot how to find humour in a situation.

I also questioned.. if Colby's father was the child of a Dragonseeker and her Lifemate, than wouldnt Colby be not really human herself? Kind of like Shea, who's father was Carpathian? Shea knew something was wrong with her her whole life and knew she needed blood regularly. But Colby seems to be very human and very resentful of the changes.

I'm starting to wonder at their "dying race" business tho. There seem to be an awful lot of them still floating around!! And having twins (now triplets!)Perhaps Mikhail and Raven need to get out of the mountians a little more!

Bottom line, it's a good solid addition to the Dark series and introduces us to new facets of what's going on - although, honestly, I've read every book in the series and I'm still not "getting" the conspiracy. Will it ever be resolved?? Rafael and Colby however, got on my nerves and I thought they both deserved a smack of good sense!!



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Summary: Dark Secret
Review: I have every Dark series book, and this is one of her best. You would think that her stroyline would become to be boring but instead it has gotten better. She has begun to tie her storylines together with the dragonseekers/warlocks and the war coming to the Prince. My hat come's off to this author and her brilliance.

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Summary: Clinical Recipe for Abusive Relationship
Review: I keep reading Feehan novels hoping for that spark of something different. I like vampire romance and even the premise is good...but then it falls short each and every time with mindless descriptions and fillers. I have to pick apart the passages I want my imagination to indulge in just to have even a modicum of enjoyment. You could almost read this book's dialogue alone and completely understand the story. When there is a clever avenue for her to explore she halts--then sticks with the over used "panther like grace, mesmerizing voice" descriptions. Does she even proof-read...one paragraph pretty much repeats the last. And lets stop for a moment to realize that her characters are not in love...the men suffer from a strange co-dependent psychosis. If a man ever treated me that way I would run, fast. Abusers always say they love you while they are beating you...and these main characters are abusers. Everytime the female lead wants to get away the male character says: "I don't think you realize how strong I am, I would never let you go." Thats a threat if I ever heard one. Alarms!!!! If you think this stuff is sexy you probably met your boyfriends in a biker bar because it's not. ALSO its lame how every problem can be fixed with stupid powers...hardly have a story at all when everything can be fixed by some trick.

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Summary: Just bad
Review: I love the concept of Christine Feehan books because I really like fantasy/dark horror novels. But this is bad. When her first novel came out I wrote that her first book was the best that I had read in years and that I couldn't wait to read the following books. But now, I wish she'd take a long break. Oh, and get an editor, no one is too big a name for an editor.

The character development stinks. The expository information is lifted from other books. Also, I love me some alpha males and understand that Carpathinian males are all about the mating ritual, but he raped her. Then the author had the gall to let us know that the heroine (I just read the book last night and can't remember their names - that is the definition of a bad book.) liked it despite the fact that it was sort of painful - and oh, she didn't consent.

What editor thought that a rapist as hero was a great trend to bring back? Hello, we're not in the 70/80s anymore - give us heroines who remind women of how we are now. We don't need an excuse to enjoy sex and we don't want heroines who are doormats. And giving them the job of a rancher who takes care of everything doesn't make her less of a doormat if she falls in love with her rapist.


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Summary: Too Long
Review: Maybe I missed something, but this is the worst book in the whole series as far as I'm concerned and if any of the others focuses on Nicholas, I'm thinking the heroine needs more of a sense of humor and self than Colby.

This book went on and on and on, just using mundane filler. The male was abusive, Colby was a dunce. The battle scene was weak although after the scene finally almost made up for having to waddle through this.

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Summary: get this book
Review: OH MY WORD THIS BOOK IS GREAT .LOVE HER AS AUTHOR /CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE

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Summary: i need a heroine
Review: please! this could have been such a wonderful story. god save us from colby! She is the worse heroine that ms. feehan has ever given us. in dark magic, savannah came around quickly when faced with the realities of life. not so with colby. even when nicholas tells her BLUNTLY about rafael, explains the facts of carpathian life BLUNTLY to her, she still almost kills rafael AGAIN. some of the other reviews call rafael a darker hero. not so. i'd happily be his lifemate. he was so giving to colby. so loving to her. so very, very patient. she on the other hand was selfish and a bitch. i hope ms. feehan can make the rest of her heroines more likable. i almost didn't finish the book i got so fed up with her. colby is the reason for the 3 stars. get rid of her and it's a 5 star book.

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Summary: First time reader
Review: This is actually the first one of this series I have read. Needless to say, I have ordered the rest that are available on Amazon. I was getting a little bored with the other writers I normally read. A friend recommended these books and let me borrow this one.

I keep asking myself, "Dear Lord, Why can't these Carpathians really exist?!". If the others are even close, I will not be disappointed in the least. Thank you, Christine!!

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Summary: total fan
Review: This is by far the best book in the Dark series. I thought the heroine was very realistic, much more than in the other books.