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    <body><![CDATA[What I loved most about this book and what makes it the best so far for the emotional impact.  This is the book with the emotional tug to your heart.  Both Lucian and especially Jaxon had such sad beginnings.  Knowing their toubled history made their coming together so much more exciting and heart w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46122385">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[For centuries, Lucian Daratrazanoff has been the dark guardian of his people, living a bleak existence of violence and horror.  But now his kind, the Carpathians, are dying out or falling prey to the souless life of vampires.  Only by finding and claiming his destined life mate can Lucian stave off the ever present lure of the soulless evil.  Part man, part predator, Lucian will stop at nothing in order to find his mate.     Jaxon Montgomery is anything but ordinary.  She is stubborn, independent, but a damn good cop with an unerring sense of impending danger.  Honed by a traumatic childhood and years of training in Special Forces, she is determined to sacrifice everything to protect others.  But now the monster from her childhood has returned, and anyone who befriends her is in mortal danger.  The last thing she needs is to become involved with a man, even one as mesmerizing and bewitching as Lucian Daratrazanoff.  But Lucian will not be rebuffed, and is determined to possess her, to guard her for all time, to make her his life mate...and save his soul.  Read by Juanita Parker.  12 CD's 13 Hrs.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just zipped right through this book. I had to know, know more, know what was coming around the bend. I couldn't put this book down.<br/><br/>Lucian is just perfection. I love how easy things seem to come to him, of course, with the exception of his lifemate, Jaxon. Lucian is stealth wrapped in a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43427154">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The power that Lucian Daratrazanoff could wield was immense, but the power he came by naturally did not help him find the one thing that could make is existence more tolerable. Finding a lifemate was not the difficult part of his newest challenge, it was to convince a human women to become a part of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71655373">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had such high hopes for this one.  I spent more than half of it just being disgusted with the female protagonist's commitment to denial.  It's been done to death in this series, it makes her insipid and jejune, and it's seriously beneath appropriate behavior for the lifemate of the oldest and fier...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71644679">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Like all the other Christine Feehan &quot;Carpathian&quot; novels this book is entertaining without having a lot of depth to it. The Carpathian novels are cookie cutter books that are loaded with a lot of sex. Not on the scale of Anita Blake as there are only two individuals involved.  The Male char...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42284392">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the best in the the carpathian series....<br/><br/>from the prologue to the end, this novel will surely keep you hooked. The dark sensuality of Lucian is simply alluring. It is so delicious and, not to mention, envy-worthy, to witness his possession, as well as need of Jaxx. <br/><br/>Lucian is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11841144">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[For centuries, Lucian Daratrazanoff has been the dark guardian of his people, living a bleak existence of violence and horror.  But now his kind, the Carpathians, are dying out or falling prey to the souless life of vampires.  Only by finding and claiming his destined life mate can Lucian stave off the ever present lure of the soulless evil.  Part man, part predator, Lucian will stop at nothing in order to find his mate.     Jaxon Montgomery is anything but ordinary.  She is stubborn, independent, but a damn good cop with an unerring sense of impending danger.  Honed by a traumatic childhood and years of training in Special Forces, she is determined to sacrifice everything to protect others.  But now the monster from her childhood has returned, and anyone who befriends her is in mortal danger.  The last thing she needs is to become involved with a man, even one as mesmerizing and bewitching as Lucian Daratrazanoff.  But Lucian will not be rebuffed, and is determined to possess her, to guard her for all time, to make her his life mate...and save his soul.  Read by Juanita Parker.  12 CD's 13 Hrs.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great entry into the Dark series by Christine Feehan.  This is the story of Lucian, and his police-officer lifemate, Jaxon.  Tormented by a psychotic man from her childhood, Jaxon is afraid to let anyone close to her.  Lucian, fighting his dark nature for 2000 years, cannot stay away.  Wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52460492">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel focuses on one of the twins who is an ancient hunter, Lucian.  His lifemate is a feisty cop with a tormented past and a dangerous stalker.  Although I liked this series when I first started, they are all starting to be too similar.  I have two more that I already bought, so I will finish ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59056756">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite Carpathian novels, so far. The subject matter is dark, but never oppressive. The dark twin is not sugar-coated....  He acknowledges the responsibility he took for both he and his brother. He can be menacing. Somehow, I loved him all the more for it. I could read an entire series b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55293036">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm pretty sure this is my favourite book out of all of them - and that's saying something since there are hundreds of them. <br/><br/>Jaxxon, oh my.. how I love you. Kick arse female, can we hear the screams of joy?  Jaxx is just hilarious, especially the ribbing she gives Lucian. Some of my favo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59598616">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[For centuries, Lucian Daratrazanoff has been the dark guardian of his people, living a bleak existence of violence and horror.  But now his kind, the Carpathians, are dying out or falling prey to the souless life of vampires.  Only by finding and claiming his destined life mate can Lucian stave off the ever present lure of the soulless evil.  Part man, part predator, Lucian will stop at nothing in order to find his mate.     Jaxon Montgomery is anything but ordinary.  She is stubborn, independent, but a damn good cop with an unerring sense of impending danger.  Honed by a traumatic childhood and years of training in Special Forces, she is determined to sacrifice everything to protect others.  But now the monster from her childhood has returned, and anyone who befriends her is in mortal danger.  The last thing she needs is to become involved with a man, even one as mesmerizing and bewitching as Lucian Daratrazanoff.  But Lucian will not be rebuffed, and is determined to possess her, to guard her for all time, to make her his life mate...and save his soul.  Read by Juanita Parker.  12 CD's 13 Hrs.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, I totally skipped ahead in the series, but I read the first chapter of this online and I didn't want to wait through 8 books to get to it!<br/><br/>I enjoyed the idea of a strong woman-cop paired with an old-world Carpathian male. Yet, due to the terrifying happenings of her past, Jaxx is fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65675678">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[These last two books have been my favorite in the series so far. Lucian is easily my favorite Carpathian, though I also like Gregori. This was Lucian's story, tho much was told about him in Gabriel's book as well. It seems strange to me that the characters' strengths are more evident in books not de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63385220">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Honestly, I'm having a bit of a had time getting through this book. Feehan has tried in this book to be different to the previous books in this series. But I feel she's trying to hard, and it's not quite working out. What really bugs, is that she's taken a suppsedly strong heroine, and turned her to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26879707">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[For centuries, Lucian Daratrazanoff has been the dark guardian of his people, living a bleak existence of violence and horror.  But now his kind, the Carpathians, are dying out or falling prey to the souless life of vampires.  Only by finding and claiming his destined life mate can Lucian stave off the ever present lure of the soulless evil.  Part man, part predator, Lucian will stop at nothing in order to find his mate.     Jaxon Montgomery is anything but ordinary.  She is stubborn, independent, but a damn good cop with an unerring sense of impending danger.  Honed by a traumatic childhood and years of training in Special Forces, she is determined to sacrifice everything to protect others.  But now the monster from her childhood has returned, and anyone who befriends her is in mortal danger.  The last thing she needs is to become involved with a man, even one as mesmerizing and bewitching as Lucian Daratrazanoff.  But Lucian will not be rebuffed, and is determined to possess her, to guard her for all time, to make her his life mate...and save his soul.  Read by Juanita Parker.  12 CD's 13 Hrs.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[About now its obvious that every book is going to be exactly the same, just change the names, occupations and sometimes reverse the sexes but otherwise these once gloriously exciting and compelling books have become rote.  Unfortunately.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book I just wish at the end the killer got a better offing then he did.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Finally-- an alpha female in this series of alpha male vampire-lovers (oh, excuse me, Carpathians).]]></body>
    
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