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

A little Different than the rest. Good for a change of feeling to the series, something different bt familiar.

I liked this installment in the dark series because it dealt with Carpathian instability. Many levels of mental instability were explored both through Shea's character and that of Jacques.

It turns out that Jacques the would be heir to the Carpathian Prince-dom lost his mind because of torture by the vampire/ hunters, then being buried alive. Does that give him the right to abuse his would be lifemate? You be the judge.

Shea is the daughter of an insane Carpathian male whom caused several disgusting endings to more than one "cherished" female. Finally, he has turned vampire,, What should Shea do with this information?

Although the assorted Carpathians came and rallied around the couple; one can not help but wonder if they took more than they gave? These among many other questions are left to the individual reader to claim rights or wrongs.

In the end, Jacques and Shea had each other, which is truly a good thing BUT,, what of trust of family and friends? That trust was severly trampled in this book, even though Ms. Feehan does explain how and why the Jacques kidnap happened.

In any case,, happy reading, its a good book and worth your notice in my opinion.

This book is simply horrible. Repetitive dialogue and situations. Characters that just make you groan and roll your eyes.

I've read two by this author and she's just awful. Both books used the same lines over and over again. The stories chased their tails in circles half the time. Dull, repetitive and annoying.

Ok...so everyone is getting wounded in this tale from Feehan. Seems like no one stays in one piece and about 1/3 of this book is fixing people up and giving each other blood. Shea is abused, injured, throat ripped out, and second degree burns caused by the sun ... well...in my opinion none of this should happen because it isn't very well address or even believably described. Jacques is badly wounded and this surgeon (Shea) ....while in the middle of the woods in a third world country and on the run from people who want to kill her...sets up an operating room just in case anyone may need surgery while they happen by her isolated cottage. HUH??? Is this a joke?

So wonder what happens to the hero and heroine? Well if you ever read a Feehan ....exactly the same thing that happens in all her books.

So why do I keep buying them? I ask myself over and over again WHY? Feehan does put a lot of energy into that first two or three chapters. I always believe that I am going to LOVE it, that this book will be different, but she gets into her same old routine and nothing new EVER happens.

I disliked the violence Jacques occasionally displayed towards Shea, with his 'insanity' serving as an excuse. Particularly in the scenes at the beginning of the book, such as where Jacques meets his brother again, the abuse was too much to ever allow Jacques to be a likeable, or even tolerable, character. This was my least favourite of all her Dark series books.