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I enjoyed reading the Dark Challenge by Christine Feehan. Reading her books helps me to escape to another world that is very interesting and mysterious. If this was true there would be hope for real love to experience and believe in between a woman and a man.
The cover has changed. I just decided to see if she had written anything new in the Series.
This is one of a few, recent, reissues. This book was good, though not the best in the series.With the word "Dark" in so many of the titles, it can be confusing.
Feehan got into writing about wolves and shift shapers, that wasn't my cup of tea, so I stopped keeping up with her new releases. Amazon states it in their product description, but these publishers seem to like to downplay reissues.
I read all available titles in the Series several years ago. This was was recently reissued and at first glance, I thought this was a new book, but it's not.
If you're anything like me, you don't like purchasing reissues, unless that's your intent.
He had to adjust to living on the road within family unit. I was hooked from the moment that Julian's colors and emotions were restored just from his hearing Desari's voice and song from back stage. This book rates five stars for plot, character development, and romance. The first four books were exceptional with the focus of Carpathans finding lifemates with human females, but I was curious of what Carpathian women were like since they were barely mentioned previously. His quest to claim her as his lifemate, while trying to slide around the other Carpathians males was hilarious.I feel the relationship between Julian and Desari flowed more fluidly since Desari was an ancient Carpahian female; therefore, the story was able to bypass the usual angst of conversion that sometimes slows down the story with human lifemates. Also, Julian had to work harder to reign in his alpha maleness because not only was Desari as powerful a Carpathian as he, she belonged to a singing group of "lost" Carpathians and she was not going to just leave the band to run off with Julian. I was pleased with the description of Desari and Syndil being tall, elegant, graceful, and possessing their own unique power. I was very intriqued by the relationship of Barack and Syndil and Darius is as sexy and alpha as his brother Gregori.This on is a winner and ranks very high in my Dark collection.
The focus instead is on fighting those who have turned vampire, and trying to get used to the different ways each lives their life. With this installment, our heroine has lived as long as our hero (longer, perhaps), and has as much power as he does from the start, so we don't have the long, fearful "I can't be like you.
Astonishingly, the discovery leads to another 4 Carpathians who no one knew of, two of whom are siblings to Gregori, the race's most renowned healer. In this installment of the Carpathians series, our second golden twin, Julian Savage, finds his lifemate in the singer, Desari, known as Dara to her family.
While I've loved the idea of the Carpathians from book one, each story up until this one seemed to fall flat on storyline while over-indulging in melodramatic fight scenes and extended sexual encounters that really get boring after the first go-round. The two "sides" must begin to learn about each other and the experiences each has shared, separate from the others, while finding a way to defeat Julian's biggest enemy.Hooray, she finally has a plot.
I'm so relieved. ::swoon::" moments.
I was a bit perplexed by how completely uninterested Gregori seemed in the fact that his siblings had been discovered after CENTURIES of thinking them dead, but what do I know.
should be. This 5th book of the Cartpathians series would have been a transporting love story if I could have overlooked the, literally, hundreds and hundreds of typos and editing errors. (Pardon my joke at the editor's expense). It is as if someone typed this book from manuscript and never re-read it for corrections. Hundreds of misspelled words, words changed (perhaps due to spell check)., missing words, the vast scope of the errors means that the reader is constantly interrupted from the story to try to figure out what the correct would [wood, word]. There should have been a discount to readers for acting as their own editor. I desperately wanted an editor's red pen to circle errors on almost every page.The story is lovely, if you can find it amongst the errors.
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