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Book Report: Dark Desire by Christine Feehan

4/29/2009

Main Characters: Shea and Jacques

Of the entire Carpathian Series by Miss Feehan, this one would have to be one of my favorites, simply because the hero is much different than the other ones. I’m still not exactly sure how Shea and Jacques ended up in love, but I do know that by the end of the book, I did believe they were good together. It fell short in the ending danger and I expected a slightly bigger bang for everything Jacques had been through.

Shea’s actions were a tiny bit unbelievable, not so much because Jacques was using his ability in mind control, but because he’d only been feeding on the blood or rats and bugs. From reading the other novels in her series, I’d have not expected him to have that much power. Conversely, if he did have that much power from rats and bugs, I’d expect that with a real human blood diet, he wouldn’t have ended where he did in full power.

Good points about this novel. It’s different from the other ones. The danger at the end was still a vampire, but the twist on it was enough to satisfy me, though it could have been done better to get full dramatic impact.

I’d give this novel 3 3/4 stars out of 5. While reading Miss Feehan, it is best to put distance with another author of any genre before continuing on to the next novel as they tend to be formulaic.

Rule on Self Esteem

In my house we have one rule. You don’t get to feel good about yourself unless you’ve earned it! The only way any one – in my opinion – is allowed to like who they are and what they are doing, is to actually be doing something to make themselves proud. If you can pick up after yourself and keep yourself clean, then you can feel good about how you look and the status of your room. If you can’t do something, but tired your best, then you can feel good about your effort. I really don’t see how or why people need to feel good about themselves unless there is a tangible reason for it.

No Mail!

It’s been three days since I last heard from SS and I have yet to get a response from her. I emailed her again tonight, so we’ll see where that takes us.
In other news, it is so freaking hot today, I swear, the stuffed animals my kids of in their school room were sweating. It’s not even May yet, and it’s already this hot? I shudder to think of what it will be like in the middle of August. Ugh, I don’t like supper cold weather and I really don’t like supper hot weather. But it looks like I am going to be tortured this year with the mega hot weather. Oh well, that’s life.

Content edited to protect the stupid.