Dark Desire (The Carpathians (Dark) Series, Book 2)

I must admit I did not expect Jacques story to be filled with madness from how he was protrayed in the first novel, but ti was a most wonderful surprise. This book touches on the darker side of a Carpathian's mind and shows how much they do in fact need their other half...their light. A must read for all Feehan's fans!

Bloody, dark and brooding, but good book. You really feel for Jaquces and his stuggle to regain his sanity.

I was really disappointed by this book. I've read several Feehan books and short stories and this book has had pretty good reviews, so I figured I would enjoy it.

Sadly, I was wrong.

Where was the story? Where was the passion? Where was the climax (ehhem! of the story!)? The "bad guy" was discovered and destroyed in what seemed like 5 pages. The leading lady just annoyed me because she was always in denial about what she was and had to resist everything. Half of the book was spent trying to get the two characters to meet. When I had finished the book I thought "where was the story? that's it?!?" The only thing this book accomplished was introducing new/upcoming story lines which sound more interesting than this book.

I feel bad that I didn't enjoy this book because off Feehan's little FYI on why she wrote this, but I just couldn't get into it. It took me 2 weeks to read this book when I usually finish one in 2 days! I'd say read this book if you can rent or borrow it, but save yourself the $! This isn't one you need to add to your collection.

I have to say, that this was another book I highly enjoyed after reading the first in the series, "Dark Prince."

Despite the fact that there really wasn't too much romance in the story, I really liked it, especially the continueation of what happens with Raven, Mikhail, and Gregori.

Any of the "good charachters" in the story I really liked except for the main charachter, Shea, who is a surgeon.

I am really not fond of the whole patient/doctor relationship thing, so that is why I give this four stars instead of five. Also, Shea really gets on my nerves. She is just one of those charachters I really don't like and she's kind of stuck up in the doctor kind of way in that she thinks that her ideas and facts are more important than anyone elses. Also, one minute she'll dislike Jaques (her lover) and the second, she's in bed with him.

Either way, I still had a hard time putting this book down, and I still highly recommend it to people who Christine Feehan. Also, I'm sure that others who like the whole doctor and patient fall in love scenario will enjoy this book a bit more than I did.

If anyone is new to the Dark series by Christine Feehan, you absolutely need to READ DARK PRINCE FIRST. Feehan introduces a new race of paranormal humans, and you need to know what about their Carpathian/vampire universe. Also, what happens in this book deals directly with what happened in Dark Prince. Dark Desire is not standalone. After Dark Prince you can almost pick up any of the other books.

Dark Desire has very little romance in it, so if you want to see some romance, don't bother. It's just one big pool of blood and torture. People are strangled, stabbed, staked, shot, mangled, manacled, healed and then injured again, bitten, bled...it just doesn't stop! Oh, and they have a lot of sex even whey they are still bleeding. Whatever.

And you almost need a scorecard and a handy family tree to piece together who did what and which people are being healed and by whom, and who else is near death at any particular moment. Not that I want to be babied through a book, but everything happens awfully fast. and it seems that way too much goes unsaid with these people, as if Feehan didn't bother to organize the nebulous mass in her head. There are too many characters and too many sideplots. Think of it as a cross between a gorefest and a soap opera.

Suffice it to say that everyone is okay in the end. So now you can get this from the library and skim to the sideplots that you're interested in. (for me that's the Gergori subplot). On the whole it's not a disaster, but NOT great in terms of a romance.