January 9, 2012 Dark Fire
- ISBN13: 9780505524478
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
There is Always a Price to Pay So Darius warned her when she accepted a position with his traveling troupe. And gazing mesmerized at the merciless slash of his mouth, the implacable resolve on his face, the soulless emptiness of his black eyes, Tempest was afraid to ask what it was. She had always been different, apart from others. From the moment his arms closed around her, enveloping her in a sorcerer’s spell, Darius seemed to understand her unique gifts. But did his kiss offer the love and belonging she sought, or a danger more potent than his own panthers? Somewhere deep inside herself, Tempest realized she knew the answer. She had no choice but to accept the velvet stroke of his tongue, sub… More >>
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Phillipa Henry
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This is the most ridiculous book I have ever read.The characters and situation are not very believable.The writing skills are very poor except when the sex scenes arrive.There it goes into to much and detail and reduces the book from 2 star to 1 star.The filthiest book I have ever read and will read.I was deeply unimpressed by this book and how it got to be a best-seller amazes me.
Rating: 1 / 5
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jill rinehart
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Once again Ms. Feehan has written a great carpathian book. After reading her books you can never think of a vampire as an actual vampire. At some time they were carpathian! Dark Fire is the story of Darius. He’s been taking care of his “family” since is was six years old. He’s never had anyone care about his needs, he’s always taken care of everyone elses. Of course, all that changes when he finally finds his lifemate. This book is another winner for Ms. Feehan and as with all the rest, I can’t wait for the next one to come out!
Rating: 5 / 5
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Bryan Croft
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Romance novels are a repetitive genre — the same things happen, but the details change slightly; namely, the girl’s name, the guy’s name and profession, etc.
If you’re after a series with continued character development, and more and deeper revelations about the vampire universe, this isn’t it. This is a romance series, with a fairly original formula: Guy Carpathian finds gifted human soulmate, who after resisting him, leads him to redemption. Guy Carpathian saves her from bad guys a couple of times. It’s a pretty good formula, but the books are _strictly_ formula. Even the love scenes are basically identical from book to book.
So if you want depth/character development/insight with some romance, you should avoid these, and stick to J.D. Robb, Laurell Hamilton and Charlaine Harris. But Feehan is writing romances around a unique formula. If you like formula romances, you will probably enjoy these greatly.
Rating: 3 / 5
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Mummraa
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I see a lot of reviews complaining about the formulaic plotline, but not one complaining about how utterly domineering the male lead is. He treats Tempest (that’s a romance-novel name if ever I heard one) like a child, tells her what to do, and expects instant obedience. Sure, it’s to “keep her safe,” but isn’t that the excuse men have been using to control women for most of history?
Some reviewers remarked that Tempest was stupid for trying to run away. Frankly, I think that’s the smartest thing she could have done. If I were in her situation, I’d want to get away from a man like that regardless of the danger. Frankly, the whole “lifemate” situation seems nightmarish to me–all choice is taken away from the people involved, they lose their privacy, their free will, and their independence, and are tied to someone for the rest of eternity (as if a lifetime of commitment isn’t intimidating enough!)
Yeah, I know…I’m taking it too seriously. It’s just fantasy-fulfillment. I guess some women enjoy fantasizing about being controlled. I don’t, so I can’t really recommend the book.
Rating: 2 / 5
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Anonymous
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All the charachters in the Carpathian novels are the same – the men have ‘soulless black eyes’, the women have ‘creamy’ skin, and are totally unrealistic. no woman is truly as completely perfect as the female heroines are made out to be – we all have birthmarks, or imperfect sight, or sensitive skin. And some women are tall – we are not all so short that the hero should have to bend in two to kiss us. Personally i wear glasses and am a klutz and the fake perfection of the heroine is depressing. This heroine is the same as all the others, ‘perfect’ beyond the realm of mortality – isn’t the point of being human is that we’re flawed, if not physically then mentally or emotionally and sometimes a combination of 2 or all 3? Tempest is no different than the rest in her ‘perfection’, and her name is ridiculus.
Tthe men as well are all described as being very much the same, with ‘soulless black eyes’ and a ‘demon’ inside that needs to be ‘kept leashed’.
there are a buncha diffrent ways to say the same thing, and hearing the same phrases applied to diffrent charachters just makes all the books that much more the same. it seems like the author is just changing the scene, time period and names of the charachters and writing the same book over and over.
all in all this book is not really that much diffrent and not really worth the time if you’ve read at least 3 other novels in the Dark series.
Rating: 3 / 5