Customer Reviews
Formulaic Feehan... - By: Imani, 02 Oct 2008 
I'm surprised I'm the first to write a review. I bought this book ages ago.
I'm a great fan of Christine Feehan's Carpathians in the Dark series & have read alll of them. I was very interested in this one because this was the first with a Black character in Mary Ann Delaney. We know this because it was mentioned in Dark Destiny with lots of 'coffee coloured skin' references. Absolutely fine because I wanted to know how Christine was going to deal with her.
So, starting from where we left off in Dark Celebrations, Manolito De la Cruz has been stabbed by a poisoned umbrella meant for the heavily pregnant Shea, & is hovering between life & death in a sort of in-between world. Mary Ann has been bitten once & so is pining for what, she doesn't know, but Mano still in communication with his brothers, ask them to protect her while he tries to make his way back to the land of the living.
The story is a good one but, I think, spends far too much time in the in-between world. We meet Mikhail's father & mother there - & a psycho brother who wants power. it's not as claustrophobic as many of the other books, as we meet many other characters, like the Jaguars people. Mary Ann's character doesn't develop as much as it should but, she does find out more about herself out there in the jungle. And when she does realise her 'attraction' to Manolito, things spice up rather nicely.
This one was slightly different from the others, in that involves werewolves & jaguars. Takes place in South America, which is fine because we're dealing with the De la Cruz brothers. (By the way, if they're originallly from Romania, where did the 'De la Cruz' thing come from?). Christine's also changed the wording in the bonding ritual in this one. I always loved the words in the other books & suddenly it's different. Why?
It is a good read but this IS textbook Feehan. I still recommend it.
