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Summary: One of the Best
Review: I really enjoyed this entry in the Dark series. Feehan's storytelling ability is amazing. I especially enjoyed Dark Challenge and would rank it close to my most favorite: Dark Desire. The world she creates is rich in texture and "color." It is great to know she has plans to continue.
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Summary: A grand addition to the series.
Review: Kudos to Christine for yet another wonderful book in her Dark series. Desari, an ancient Carpathian woman with powerful gifts of her own, and Julien, a solitary Carpathian hunter who has isolated himself from his own kind -- including his twin brother -- to protect the people he loves from the ancient vampire who can track him at will.I thoroughly enjoyed the introduction of a little Carpathian women's lib into the series. Desari isn't about to let anyone make her decisions for her, not even the gorgeous hunk who's the other half of her soul. And Julien, for all his powers, has a wry wit that I found very entertaining. Oooh, and so many more intriguing stories have been hinted at. Darius's. The interesting connection between Syndil and Barak. And I can't wait for Lucien's and Gabriel's stories. Christine is a writer I can count on for a great read. I enjoy the fascinating, passionate, intriguing world she has created. And one of her nicest traits is the way she provides enough information about her world that new readers to the series can pick up any book and not be lost.
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Summary: Carol from South Bend, In
Review: Ive read all the titles in the Dark series and have to disagree with a previous reviewer, Dark Challenge lives up to the other books and surpasses them in many ways.Ms Feehan shows the heroine has being just as powerful as her lifemate. She introduces other charactors that are sure to make readers want to hear their stories. Darius's story is sure to be eagerly waited for, just as Gregori's was. I only wish the publisher would get Christine feehan's books out on the shelves sooner.
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Summary: Dark Challenge
Review: This is the wonderful fifth installment of Christine Feehan's "Dark Series". Julian Savage an ancient has traveled the world for centuries mostly in solitude running with the wild animals and flying with the birds. When he has reached about the end of his wanting to live any longer in this existence, Julian is given one last opportunity to be of assistance to his Prince and protect a female singer and her band from human assassins. When he walks into the concert hall and hears her voice for the first time he is thrown for a loop when he starts seeing in colors for the first time in centuries. This book is the story of Julian's discovery of his lifemate Desari and her family. Julian has to learn to live within a family unit which is very difficult for him to do since he has been so alone for so long. Christine has created a wonderful species called the Carpathians who are immortal and try to live right beside humans. I truly look forward to her next book in this series.
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Summary: Dark Challenge (Dark Series) by Christine Feehan
Review: I love this book! Christine does a wonderful job of combining two of my favorite things, Vampires and Romance. I have followed the entire series and I love the way she intermingles characters from all of the other titles. I hope she will continue to do so with the new characters introduced in this book. If you are a fan of "Dark Shadows" or "Dracula" I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER
Review: I love Ms. Feehan dark series novels. However, after reading the first 4 dark prince, dark desire, dark gold, dark magic i found that dark challenge has several weakness compare to the others. I applaud Feehan for bringing about new characters and creating a strong female heroine in this book, however the book went on and on and didn't really create a convincing attraction between the two heroes. I fell in love with dark magic and think it's the best one yet. Dark challenge only get 2 stars because the book was repetitive in retelling the Carpathians story and didn't really progress in showing a more convincing relationship between the characters introduce. I felt that Feehan gave only a glimpse of each character, even the main heroes and was very fustrated in the fact that she dealt more with fighting seen then with the loving seen. There was more sexual context then romance-love context. I do recommend reading it though because you do get to meet other characters and revel in the heroine power and beauty.
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Summary: Keeps getting better and better!
Review: Dark Challenge is a fabulous follow-up to the last book in the "Dark Series", Dark Magic. It catches me by surprise that each book is remarkable and unique in it's own right, and yet spins me in a fascinating journey deeper into the lives of these enthralling Carpathians. Even after a night held tight in the grip of Ms. Feehan's incredible reality, a night of longing sighs, white knuckles, laughter and even some tears, a night pouring over every single page of this book, it's a book that lures me to start back on page one and do it all over again. The beauty and mystery of this talented writer is awesome. She doesn't let you down in this book, but reveals even more secrets and answers to puzzling questions. I can't wait for the next one! I'm not a "vampire" book romance reader, but if, like me, you love plots and stories with depth and characters so real, they make you believe, then you will love this one too!
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Summary: Am I bored yet...
Review: Don't take me wrong: I liked Feehan's books very much BUT: don't you think this author is repeating herself quite a bit? She write and re-write the same sentences all along this book... Ok he founds light to his darkness... He needs her... This is all so incredeble to him... Ok, we got it! Say something else! You know everything there is to know about this story by reading the resume.... This book is 377 pages but the story could hold into 50 pages... The same events are repeated over and over again. Gregory, how believed his family gone for ever has nothing better to say than... "Ok, Good they live... I'll see them later" ! This gives you an idea of what Feehan has to say in this book. Not much.
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Summary: Dark Challenge - am I bored yet?
Review: Don't take me wrong: I like Feehan's stories very much BUT: don't you think this author is repeating herself quite a bit? She writes and re-writes the same sentences all along her books... In this book, it is even worst then usual... Ok, He found light to his darkness... We got it! Say something else! You know everything there is to know about this story by reading the resume.... This book is a 377 pages but the story could hold into 50 pages...
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Summary: Wonderful Sequel No.4 to Dark Prince
Review: Feehan has done it again, producing another memorable episode to the Dark Series, this time with Julian, twin of Aidan of Dark Gold fame. This is not the best book in the series. In my opinion, that honour remains with Dark Desire while my favourite hero remains Jacques. When will we hear anything any news of Jacques and Shea Ms. Feehan? Have they had any children? Are they part of the Carpathian world or have they opted to distance themselves from it? DC might not be the best book in the series but it is still great. Better, in my opinion than Dark Gold and as good as Dark Magic. It introduces more new characters which we shall surely meet again and which provide good fodder for future "Darks". It also deals more in depth with the female Carpathians, which received very sketchy treatment in the rest of the series. Other reviewers seem to have forgotten that Dark Prince introduced two ancient females (three actually - there was also Mikhail's sister but she was murdered) and all had to be as old, or older than Desari and Syndil (Mikhail's sister was the youngest female and Mikhail's parents died around the same time as the parents of Grigori, Desari and Darius). This book also contains more background than the previous book, more details on the catastrophic annhilation of most of the Carpathian race during the Turkish invasion and of the involvement of the undead, and the story of Gabriel and Lucian (is it a co-incidence that these were named after the Archangel and the Head of the Devils?). I got the impression that we would get to know these two better in the future. It is not that clear that they died. I was a bit disappointed that the book offered no closure with regards to Syndil and Barack's story. Everything seems to indicate that they are lifemates and Barack might not have realised because constant exposure to his lifemate might have meant that he never lost the ability to feel or see in colour (??!!). But isn't the urge to join with a lifemate supposed to be irresistable? Isn't the joining ritual supposed to be embedded in the ancient memory of Carpathian males? I also expected Gregori to show a bit more eagerness to meet his lost family. After all he had thought them dead for a hundreds of years. Instead he seems to hold himself aloof. It's also about time the protagonists of the first two books started appearing again - they're the Carpathians we first got to know and love and I, for one, feel cheated about the manner in which they have disappeared from the scene. ANyway, do not take any notice of these minor complaints - as you can see, I still gave the book five stars - it has the tension and the passion (and the men) of all the Dark series. I can't wait for the next one - according to Ms. Feehan's website, it will deal with Darius' story. It will be great watching that might one fall. I am also looking forward to Ms. Feehan's gothic romance. The excerpts which I have read are extremely promising
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