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Dark Possession (Dark Carpathian #18)
by
Christine Feehan (Goodreads Author)
Christine Feehan returns to her uniquely sensual Carpathian world in a novel about the nature of true love and the unnatural forces that can destroy it...
Manolito De La Cruz knew he was dangerously close to turning into a vampire. The last thing he expected after being called back to his Carpathian homeland by Prince Mikhail was to catch the scent of his destined lifemate...more
Manolito De La Cruz knew he was dangerously close to turning into a vampire. The last thing he expected after being called back to his Carpathian homeland by Prince Mikhail was to catch the scent of his destined lifemate...more
Hardcover, 358 pages
Published
September 28th 2007
by Berkley Hardcover
(first published August 28th 2007)
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In Christine Feehan's Dark Possession (book 18 of the Dark series,) we are swept away from the Carpathian mountains, back to South America, to the home of the De La Cruz brothers. At the end of the last book (Dark Celebration,) Manolito De La Cruz was wounded saving Shea Dubrinsky and her unborn son from an assassin. His injuries were so grave that his soul actually left the world, and the healers along with his brothers, had to work miracles to anchor him to life. Completely unaware that Manoli...more
I have a love/hate relationship with Christine Feehan's Dark series, but I always have a compulsion to read the books.
I sort of like this book because it seemed more sexy than the others. Furthermore, the wolf angle made it more interesting, and the mentioning of other species opens the idea of other future characters. However, there is too much mystical elements to it, that after a while it can get boring.
The reason I finished the book is because I listened to it, and I love the readers' voices...more
I sort of like this book because it seemed more sexy than the others. Furthermore, the wolf angle made it more interesting, and the mentioning of other species opens the idea of other future characters. However, there is too much mystical elements to it, that after a while it can get boring.
The reason I finished the book is because I listened to it, and I love the readers' voices...more
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I love IR books. This one had its moments. The premise wasn't the best but new characters were introduced and the the series new direction which I think will lead to the end was cemented. I've read post where the heroine Maryann was either loved or hated. No in between. Well being the perpetual fence sitter, I am still unsure if I liked her or not.
There were times I could not stand her. She is definitely all girly like Raven and Savanna but not nearly as irritating because there was a down to e...more
There were times I could not stand her. She is definitely all girly like Raven and Savanna but not nearly as irritating because there was a down to e...more
While saving a pregnant Carpathian female, Manuel "Manolito" De La Cruz was stabbed and poisoned. He should be dead, but his brothers "held him to earth" and transported him back to South America in hope of saving him.
But something appears to have gone wrong...
MaryAnn Delaney, a counselor from Seattle, has agreed to go with the De La Cruz family into the jungle in hope of helping a brutalized young woman. But there is definitely something off with MaryAnn and is not just the fact Manolito's boun...more
But something appears to have gone wrong...
MaryAnn Delaney, a counselor from Seattle, has agreed to go with the De La Cruz family into the jungle in hope of helping a brutalized young woman. But there is definitely something off with MaryAnn and is not just the fact Manolito's boun...more
Dark Possession is the latest full length novel in Christine Feehan's Carpathian series, and is the story of MaryAnn Delaney and Manolito De La Cruz. It took me about 3 - 3.5 hours to read. Once I got started, I just couldn't put it down.
Those that have read Dark Celebration know that towards the end of Dark Celebration, Manolito is severely injured saving Shea Dubrinksy. In Dark Possession we find that Manolito's family have returned, with Manolito's body, to the South American jungle in the ho...more
Those that have read Dark Celebration know that towards the end of Dark Celebration, Manolito is severely injured saving Shea Dubrinksy. In Dark Possession we find that Manolito's family have returned, with Manolito's body, to the South American jungle in the ho...more
With "Dark Possession," Feehan continues the storyline of the DeLaCruz brothers, this time focusing on Manuel (Manolito). Back in Brazil, after a near fatal attack, Manuel knows he has a lifemate but cannot remember what happened or where she might be. MaryAnn Delany, the counselor for battered women that we have seen in previous books, has agreed to accompany the DeLaCruz family to their home to try and help a brutalized young jaquar girl, but she is totally confused at her overwhelming grief o...more
After being wounded at the Carpathian Christmas party, Manolito De La Cruz was taken back to his home in the South American forest. He had found his lifemate, the one person that could save his soul, but upon his rising the confusion he felt left him with wholes as to who she was and why she was not there with him. For some reason, MaryAnn Delaney felt the death of Manolito, she had never even been formally introduced to him, but she felt connected to him and could not shake the sorrow of his de...more
I had mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, I am completely grateful for C.F. for having an AA heroine because we are absent in this genre. I went into this really pulling for MaryAnn because of all of the harsh reviews I had read about her being shallow. I was determined that I would love her. However, in the end, it did not matter to me whether she was black or white, she annoyed me. Seriously, as powerful as she was, her focus kept going back to fashion and clothes. REALLY!! In the...more
Carpathians เป็นเผ่าพันธ์เก่าแก่ที่มียังชีพอยู่ได้ด้วยการดื่มเลือดแต่ไม่เหมือนพวกแวมไพร์เพราะจะไม่ดื่มเลือดจนเหยื่อตายเพราะถ้าละเมิดกฎข้อนี้ก็จะกลายเป็นแวมไพร์ ผู้ชายเผ่านี้จะมีชีวิตที่สมบูรณ์ก็ต่อเมื่อเจอคู่ชีวิตที่อาจจะต้องรอเป็นร้อย ๆ ปีกว่าจะมาเกิดแล้วเปลี่ยนให้คู่ชีวิตเป็นพวกเดียวกับตน
พระเอกเป็น Carpathian ที่ติดอยู่ระหว่าง 2 โลกเพราะได้รับบาดเจ็บจากการต่อสู้ และกำลังโดนแวมไพร์หลอกล่อให้มาเข้าพวกด้วย นางเอกเป็นมนุษย์ที่ไม่รู้ช่าติกำเนิดที่แท้จริงของตนว่าเป็นเผ่าพันธุ์หมาป่าที่มีพลังเทียบเท...more
พระเอกเป็น Carpathian ที่ติดอยู่ระหว่าง 2 โลกเพราะได้รับบาดเจ็บจากการต่อสู้ และกำลังโดนแวมไพร์หลอกล่อให้มาเข้าพวกด้วย นางเอกเป็นมนุษย์ที่ไม่รู้ช่าติกำเนิดที่แท้จริงของตนว่าเป็นเผ่าพันธุ์หมาป่าที่มีพลังเทียบเท...more
Dec 15, 2008
Jacqueline
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
No one- the plot was pathetically lacking
Recommended to Jacqueline by:
Sadly, myself- once more found while browsing books.
Shelves:
genre-romance-paranormal
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This is the first book in this series I ever read, and while I see it's number 18 in the series, most novels you pick up that are part of a series can be read as a stand alone. At the very minimum they explain some of the story world to allow unfamiliar readers some insight.
Not so with this one.
The story world is not shared at all, and you are thrown in to vampires, shape-shifters, and Carpathians - who I guess are sorta vampires and/but hunt "evil" vampires...what? Add to the fact the charact...more
Not so with this one.
The story world is not shared at all, and you are thrown in to vampires, shape-shifters, and Carpathians - who I guess are sorta vampires and/but hunt "evil" vampires...what? Add to the fact the charact...more
Although I enjoyed this book, it wasn't always an easy read. Manolito was a difficult hero who sneakily arranged for his lifemate to be brought to his South American home after sneakily marking her under her protector's nose.
MaryAnn had potential as a strong character, but she really struggled so far out of her element in so many ways, as a city girl fighting through the jungle, a human unaware of her psychic strength and with sketchy knowledge of the Carpathians. I have to admit that she has r...more
MaryAnn had potential as a strong character, but she really struggled so far out of her element in so many ways, as a city girl fighting through the jungle, a human unaware of her psychic strength and with sketchy knowledge of the Carpathians. I have to admit that she has r...more
Jul 09, 2011
Michaella Palmer
rated it
1 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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This stories reviews were all very good or good, right now I am going through a phase of wanting to read interracial romance (ir)so when I heard the heroine was black and the hero was white I was on it then I turned the page and what a mistake the heroine is has all the features of a Caucasian woman she has not got curly or kinky hair there is no mention of chemically relaxed hair but she had bone straight hair that is so long it’s a mane I mean come on this woman was not black but was used as a...more
I honestly wasn't expecting this book. It is in my mind probably her best in this series.
The author gives us two main characters with flaws yet the desire to do whatever is necessary to overcome. The deisre to face down whatever is thrown at them. Yet she keeps humor and laughter under the surface as their relationship blossoms in the midst of unknowns.
I completely enjoyed this book and read it through in one sitting.
The author gives us two main characters with flaws yet the desire to do whatever is necessary to overcome. The deisre to face down whatever is thrown at them. Yet she keeps humor and laughter under the surface as their relationship blossoms in the midst of unknowns.
I completely enjoyed this book and read it through in one sitting.
I am afraid that I wasn't all that interested to begin with because I didn't know what was going on. I have read the first half-dozen book sin this series but not the latest. I basically listened to this one because Phil Gigante was the narrator.
Although I'm a fan of series in which you get to know the characters well because they remain in the series through, I'm not fan of series novels that require you to have read the entire series in order.
The first three or four chapters in this, I had no...more
Although I'm a fan of series in which you get to know the characters well because they remain in the series through, I'm not fan of series novels that require you to have read the entire series in order.
The first three or four chapters in this, I had no...more
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I'm usually a HUGE fan of all Feehan's books. For some reason I just didn't enjoy this one. At all. Maybe b/c I listened to it instead of reading it. I don't know, I just felt it was missing her usual... creativeness. It seemed kind of boring to me! Which is hard for me to say about a Christine Feehan book! She has written some of may all time favorites... very let down.
I've been hooked on Feehan's Carpathians series since its beginning. I understand authors and their books evolve over time and I've witnessed a lot of growth in this series. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes not. The Carpathian world-building and spiritualism has gotten a bit beyond the pale to me, reaching a point where the newer books don't always mesh well with the older ones.
I liked "Dark Possession" a lot. It's a multicultural romance, kind of unusual in Feehan's work. I found myself eas...more
I liked "Dark Possession" a lot. It's a multicultural romance, kind of unusual in Feehan's work. I found myself eas...more
Uh...this book was pretty dumb. For the life of me, I can't see the appeal of romance books where the most important aspect are repetitive sex scenes that go on for way too long and waste a ton of my time. And I think you could play a drinking game for all the times this book mentioned "womb" having to do with arousal-lots of "womb tightening"...so, that's her uterus, right? I'm sorry, the word womb sort of just applies to babies in my head, which are so not sexy. Speaking of babies, does anyone...more
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When I started this book I did not realize it was part of a series.
I think the premise of the book is extremely interesting, but that is the only reason I gave it two stars. The book had potential but never lived up to it. I think the book was written as a cliched love story to sell sex. Seriously. Boy meets girl. Boy is most gorgeous man EVER. Girl hates/is opposite of boy. Two days later boy and girl fall passionately in love.
I wish we would have learned more of the the characters and backgro...more
I think the premise of the book is extremely interesting, but that is the only reason I gave it two stars. The book had potential but never lived up to it. I think the book was written as a cliched love story to sell sex. Seriously. Boy meets girl. Boy is most gorgeous man EVER. Girl hates/is opposite of boy. Two days later boy and girl fall passionately in love.
I wish we would have learned more of the the characters and backgro...more
I felt like Feehan was all over the place with this book. I felt like some things were not explored fully, and felt like the werewolf aspect came out of left field. It wasn't really worth the price of a hardback.
I found many parts of this book confusing and hard to follow, but that could be because I'd never read any of the Carpathians books before. My mom picked this one up in the library's gift shop. When she gave it to me she said if it was a movie it would be rated X. She was right.
I really enjoyed the story overall. It's a very interesting and complex world with some nice twists. The concept of waiting centuries for your lifemate was amazing. And of course, what woman wouldn't love a man who could...more
I really enjoyed the story overall. It's a very interesting and complex world with some nice twists. The concept of waiting centuries for your lifemate was amazing. And of course, what woman wouldn't love a man who could...more
I Like Christine Feehan because she doesn't use a cookie cutter mold for each book and the featured characters. Dark Possession is very different from the other book. We meet Mary Ann Delany in Dark Destiny and Dark Celebration. She is a counselor for Abused Women in Seattle, Wash. She has became friends with Destiny and has come with her to the Carpathian Mountains for a Christmas celebration, where Manolito De La Cruz see her and knows she is his lifemate. Manolito is mortally injured and his...more
pretty good, Manolito is a good character. The story starts in Dark Celebration, but takes off in this book. Mary Ann is such a great and tough character. She is so girlie yet so strong at the same time, she thinks that with enough pepper spray anything is possible. The interaction with Solange and Jasmine was really nice, and interesting and makes you wonder/hope that their stories are completed in another book. Vlad & his lifemate make an appearance, and there is some back story into what...more
We met Manolito last novel he is one of the Brazilian Carpathians. In Dark Celebration we found out that he met his mate MaryAnn but he got stabbed by a Vampire saving the Prince's sister in law. Dark Possession picks up with Manolito waking from his healing sleep in a Brazilian rainforest. MaryAnn is in Brazil as well to counsel Julianne's traumatized sister and cousin. We find that Maryann is not what she seams.
I think this is my favorite Carpathian book to date. Christine Feehan seemed to st...more
I think this is my favorite Carpathian book to date. Christine Feehan seemed to st...more
This is the first of her books that I read. I found it to be a Harlequin romance with vampires and werewolves and jaguar-people.
The storyline was fine. It was a glimpse into a single relationship and hinted at reading the other stories to know the whole of the book. I found the title character "Mary-Ann" to be great because she is stubborn and wants to come to her own decisions, but underneath she is passionate and wants the domination. It took me a while to finish it and I found myself distrac...more
The storyline was fine. It was a glimpse into a single relationship and hinted at reading the other stories to know the whole of the book. I found the title character "Mary-Ann" to be great because she is stubborn and wants to come to her own decisions, but underneath she is passionate and wants the domination. It took me a while to finish it and I found myself distrac...more
Sep 29, 2012
K
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
fans of series and/or paranormal romance
Recommended to K by:
fan of series
Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this story and finding out more about the De Le Cruz brothers, the Jaguars, and the battle/war between the Carparthians and their enemies. I really liked Manolito and MaryAnn's characters and thought they were well matched. I def was not expecting the twist to MaryAnn's character, and am curious to see where the author will go w/ this new element. Besides the above, I loved the action and suspense, and can't wait to see who's story is next. I would so recommend this...more
This was the first one in her series that I could not fully read. I skipped most of the book reading just enough to catch the plot. It was almost like she had a deadline and threw this book together last minute. The most upsetting part is she introduced a new "breed" of supernatural and could have really done so much more with that alone. Really disappointed! If you are new to Feehan and going to read a Carpathian novel for the first time, please do not start with this one!! If you are a fan, do...more
I really liked the story; however, most books I discovered should be "XXX rated", I have been able to just skim over the 3-4 graphic sexual encounters. This book is pretty much one long, very graphic, sexual encounter with a story wound into it. On top of that, you actually have to read through the encounters because of bits of information pertinent to the story line. I do not consider myself a "prude"; however, I would have enjoyed it much more without the pages-on-end of graphic sex. Although,...more
4 1/2 stars. This is Manolito and Mary Ann's story. Mary Ann alternated between annoying and very likeable. I liked her excessively except for the fashionista bit. I also varied on liking the whole shadow world bit. I didn't like it at the beginning but it stopped being quite so psychomessedup after the first quarter. Again, I like the dominating males so th De La Cruz brothers are right up my alley. I don't want to add any spoilers here so I'll just say that I loved what Mary Ann introduced to...more
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan has over 40 novels published, including four series. Each of her four series has hit #1 on the NY Times. Her debut novel Dark Prince received 3 of the 9 Paranormal Excellence Awards in Romantic Literature for 1999. Since then she has been published by Leisure Books, Pocket Books, and currently is writing for Berkley/Jove. She also has earned 7...more
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“The secret weapon is cucumber.'
Solange sat all the way up. 'Jasmine, cover your ears.'
MaryAnn, Juliette and Jasmine burst out laughing.
'Sheesh, Solange. Get your mind out of the gutter.'
'MY mind is just fine, thank you. It's MaryAnn's I'm concerned about.'
'You put them on your eyes,' MaryAnn said, laughing even harder.”
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Solange sat all the way up. 'Jasmine, cover your ears.'
MaryAnn, Juliette and Jasmine burst out laughing.
'Sheesh, Solange. Get your mind out of the gutter.'
'MY mind is just fine, thank you. It's MaryAnn's I'm concerned about.'
'You put them on your eyes,' MaryAnn said, laughing even harder.”
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