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Summary: Christine Feehan!
Review: I bought the book because of Dark Dream. I read the other two stories, it wasn't worth reading. Dark Dream was a great short story, only wished it was a whole novel instead of an anthology.
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Summary: Christine Feehan!
Review: I bought the book because of Dark Dream. I read the other two stories, it wasn't worth reading. Dark Dream was a great short story, only wished it was a whole novel instead of an anthology.
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Summary: Feehan's was the best
Review: I bought this anthology for Christine Feehan's Dark Dream, and after reading was glad I did. The story introduced us to a new point in Carpathian history -- hopefully catapulting us away from the quickly-getting-tired vampire-oriented stories of the rest of the series. The characters themselves were lacking the "fire" between characters like Jaques and Shea and Julian and Desari, but I think that most of the faults of this book were due to the length requirements that Ms. Feehan had to contend with. Truth be told, I believe that this story deserved a full novel of its own. Falcon was wonderful, though. It also had the added plot bonus of involving old friends, Jacques, Shea, Mikhail and Raven.
I hope that Ms. Feehan continues on this new plot trend, but gets back to her pre-Fire characterization with the next novel in the series.The other stories were good. I can't say that I remember reading Amanda Ashley's offering, but then, I've read all of her vampire books before, and I've *never* been able to remember anything about them. *shrug* Rhonda Thompson's offering was good, but I didn't like the ending that much. I like paranormal romance, and I don't care if everyone ends up a "monster." The story itself is very sensual, and the characters are very human and likable. The hero is torn about his existence (nice to see in a werewolf romance) but the whole tone of the story is pretty dark. I see how the ending was necessary, given the nature of the curse, I just found myself wishing it wasn't. It seemed almost gimmicky at the end, instead of having a high dramatic quality that I'm sure the author intended. I'm also looking forward to finding the sure-to-be-released sequel to this story!
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Summary: Average. But what can you expect from an anthology
Review: I bought this book for the Christine Feehan story all I was sadly dissapointed with every story. Masquerade was a vampire story by Amanda Ashley. Ho-hum. Jason is the clique tortured vampire crying-all-night hero. That enough in itself was enough to make this boring. Why can't we find any vampires that are at least content with life? What also turned me off about this story was the ending. Good gravy! Ashley seems to love the cure of vampirism plot device that fell from the sky like in her other novel that I read. Dark Dream, another installment in the Dark series, was also disapointing. I expected great things from it, having read an teaser from the author's website. The first chapter sets itself up for good things, but falls flat on its face from lack of conflict between characters. Falcon and Sara don't even interact with each other about 3/4ths of the story. The rest of the time they have one big vampire hunt. The werewolf story is another one of those wham-bam cure for supernatural status stories. Just skip this one. Better yet, skip the whole book.
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Summary: Christine Feehan does it again
Review: I bought this book solely because of Christine Feehan. I do like Amanda Ashley she writes very good books and Masquerade was nice but her books rarely stay on my keeper shelf. Ronda Thompson has potential but I knew everything that was going to happen halfway through chapter 2. Christine has built a whole new world in her Dark series and she is carefull not to bore older readers while filling in new readers. This book showed the race before most of the Carpathians were destroyed. The only problem with her books are I can't wait for the next one. Where are Byron and Dayan's stories?
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Summary: A good book
Review: I liked the Amanda Ashley and Christine Feehan Stories in the book as I love the Dark series books and look forward to reading more about Carpathians. The Amanda Ashley story was good as well they are really the only reason I bought the book. If you just read the two stories it is worth the price.
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Summary: Very dissapointed.
Review: I love Chritine Feehans dark series. But this book Dark dream was so dissapointing it made me want to gag! I felt the charachters and storyline were very flat and had no real passion. Granted this was a short book but I was still extremly dissapointed. At some points during the book I just wanted the charcters to shut up they kept ranting on and on about their fellings but I didn't feel any of their emotion unlike Christine's previous books. I think if this story was made into a book with more meat on it then perhaps it might have been better. I did enjoy the background information about carpathian life but otherwise this book was indeed Cristine's worst piece of work.
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Summary: Another great entry by Christine Feehan
Review: I purchased this book because I am a major fan of Christine Feehan. "Dark Dream" is another great addition to her Carpathian saga. I enjoyed it very much, but it was too short to do justice to the story. I would have enjoyed more detail and a longer read. Otherwise, a wonderful story and I look forward to her next book.
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Summary: After Twilight
Review: I would give this one 5 stars if not for the Werewolf story (the last one).
Why do they assume Vampire's fans would like Werewolf's story???
Well, I don't.
Anyways, A. Ashley's story about this vampire telling everyone he's on police night shift is not bad at all, but not the main interest of this book....
Feehan's fan, be prepared to get all you love about her stories. The lady's family was vitim to a vampire by her fault as she found a book left behind by the Carpadian, a journal... She lives her life fleeing this vampire. As she has read the book, she knows about Carpadian so, when they meet, it's very refreshing to read about a couple who doesn't fight about the same old things and who doesn t repeat the same possessive declarations again and again. Instead, they express themself in intelligents dialogues of understanding and growing love...
I JUST LOVE THIS C. FEEHAN STORY. It's worth the book by itself.
Now, let's hope her others stories will all be as good (I was one of those who complained about the last ones!)
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Summary: Two stories okay, one very poor - not a keeper
Review: If you like vampire romances - as I do - you might think that this book is worth buying; after all, it offers three different vampire-type romances from different authors. But, as with all anthologies, quality varies and in the end it's not worth the purchase price. Amanda Ashley's Masquerade is better than a number of her longer novels, though it contains yet another tortured vampire who tries to give up the woman he loves because he won't 'subject' her to what he is. Jason loves Leanne, but has only approached her because she was in danger. He can't resist spending some time with her, but he knows that it's only a matter of time before he must send her away for her own good. Anyone who's read any of Ashley's novels will know how the story goes. What set this one apart for me was the allegory with the Phantom of the Opera musical. Ashley draws comparisons between 'Phantom' and Jason's existence as a vampire. Enjoyable - perhaps 3 stars. It's really unfortunate that the longest story in this anthology was also by far the worst. Christine Feehan's Dark Dream was appallingly bad. The protagonists meet and 'fall in love' in the space of about an hour, right at the start of the book. Oh, sure, Sara is scared of Falcon at first because she thinks he's a vampire (he isn't; he's some sort of weird sub-vampiric species Feehan has invented for her books, which I've never read); but within seconds she 'sees' into his eyes and she 'knows' him as someone she's known in her dreams for years. And then they're apart for the vast majority of this 150-page novella. The rest of the story is a vampire hunt: it's violent and ugly and unutterably boring. There was far too little interaction between the protagonists, and I wasn't convinced that they were in love. Oh, and just how many times does Falcon have to 'exchange' with Sara before she's converted?! Awful. Finally, Rhonda Thompson's Midnight Serenade is somewhat different: Rick is a werewolf, and Stephanie is an environmentalist whose job is studying and filming wolves in the wild. This story felt rushed; I would have liked to know much more about how Rick became a werewolf, and I would also have liked to see the protagonists get to know each other better - it was more like falling in lust than in love. Overall, this isn't a collection I'd read again. wmr-uk
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