Dark Prince (The Carpathians (Dark) Series, Book 1)
by Christine Feehan
Product Description: A New York Times Bestselling Author: Christine Feehan
Prince of the Night. He came to her in the night, a predator - strength and power chiseled his features. The seduction was deep and elemental; he affected her soul. She craved the dangerous force of his body - and he had only touched her with his mind. Lady of the Light. She came to him at dawn, his bleakest hour. As the beast raged inside him, threatening to consume him, he vented his centuries-old despair and she answered, a ray of light, piercing his darkness.
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My Take on the Book:
In this book we are introduced to a new take on the Vampire. In Christine Feehan’s world a Vampire is what happens when a Carpathian male doesn’t find his lifemate and chooses not to end his existence. Ok I guess it is time for some background info for those of you that haven’t read these books.
A Carpathian is a male or female child born that is immortal and made of this earth. They have the ability to shape shift, they can create most anything that comes from a nothing as long as it is of natural materials, they can control the weather and natural forces, they live off of blood though they don’t kill and each Carpathian has only one true mate, their soul mate … the other half to make them whole. After about 200 years the male Carpathians that have not found their lifemate lose their emotions and the ability to see colors and the darkness rapidly grows until the find their lifemate, choose to end their life or kill during a hunt then turning Vampire. Carpathians hunt and kill Vampires as they pose a threat to humanity and Carpathians alike. Life mates are hard to come by as few females Carpathians are born and even fewer survive the first year of life.
In this first book in a long and fascinating series find Mikhail Dubrinsky, the Prince of the Carpathian people in his homeland the Carpathian Mountains in such pain. Mikhail longs to end his empty existence but can not as he is the leader of his people and as such has to find a way to keep his people from extinction. One night when he is feeling extremely lonely his telepathic cries are heard by Raven Whitney, a telepathic hunter of serial killers. She has come to the Carpathian Mountains for a vacation where she answers Mikhail’s cries. It is nearly at that moment that Mikhail realizes that he has found his lifemate but he must now find her and convince her of the same thing. Mikhail does find and charm Raven though he finds her more difficult than expected. A relationship builds and she finds that she now feels whole all while fending off a group of vampire killers who are attacking Carpathians.
There is love, sex, romance and action in this book. What I think I liked best was how well this book was written. As I read through the parts of the book that were most steamy I was impressed about how it was sexy but not smutty. I loved the dialog between all of the characters and I thought that the characters were well developed and easy to imagine. I likes the twist that strong psychic human women could become lifemates to the Carpathian men who need them so.
These books are romantic and fun to read so dive in and read some!
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