Dark Dreamers by Christine Feehan, Marjorie M. Liu Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Dark Dreamers
Book Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
The author has a way with words that keep you interested in the story. Plus she has knowledge and done research to make the story real.Book Review: Excellent Pair of Stories
Summary: 5 Stars
I gave this book an overall 4.5 stars. The two stories are both very good paranormal romance.
First, Christine Feehan's Dark Dream is part of her Carpathian series--not sure where it falls in the reading order. This same story also appeared in another anthology, After Twilight. It is basically the story of a very ancient Carpathian male named Falcon who finds his lifemate--a human woman named Sara. Sara is on a mission to save seven orphaned children who like herself have psychic abilities. This story is a nice addition to the Carpathian series as the characters are very likable and show up several times later on in the series.
The second story, A Dream of Stone and Shadow by Marjorie M. Liu is excellent. Charlie is a gargoyle, part of an ancient and dieing race who have hidden themselves in plain sight by pretending to be human. He and his brothers are held captive by a witch bent on gaining their powers. During his captivity Charlie discovers a way to leave his body and travel into the world. In doing so he finds a child in desperate need of help and quickly searches out the one woman he believes can help the little girl. Aggie has powerful psychic abilities and a lot of courage, and she quickly falls in love with Charlie even as she rushes to the child's aid. This was a wonderful addition to the Dirk and Steele series--I believe it's number 4 if you're reading in order. I highly recommend the book for this story alone--it's unique and very romantic.
Book Review: Fantastic Feehan Reading
Summary: 5 Stars
You must call this a novella, not a short story, because there is nothing short about "Dark Dream". It is just as superb as any full, book-length story by Christine Feehan and will leave you wanting more of her books. The second novella is also quite intriguing and well worth the read. I've added it to my collection of books I will read again and again.Book Review: Feehan and Liu
Summary: 5 Stars
Both great exponents of the paranormal in very different styles. Romantic vampires and shape-shifters. Great stories. great heroes, feisty heroines, these ladies have them allBook Review: Good, but not Great
Summary: 3 Stars
First off, a lot of reviews start right off negatively because it was not said that this was a re-issue on Feehan's part of her novella After Twlight, so this is more for those of us who hadn't read After Twlight yet and didn't realize it was a reprint till we came and read the reviews.
I had not read After Twlight as novellas never held much interest for me, I feel alot of them are two short and an unfilling read. I had gone to Feehan's website, really needing a new read from a dependable author and saw Dark Dreamers and hadn't heard of it. I read the introduction/first chapter on her website and I would have to say is some of Feehan's best work. It kept me on the end of the computer seat, glued to the computer screen and then left me hanging so that I was instantly out the door to the bookstore (in a blizzard).
After getting the book and sitting back down to read Falcon and Sara's story, I was kind of let down by the second chapter mellowing out in when the first was full of highstrung excitement, but the book did pick back up. I really enjoyed this story for it being a novella and shorter. Sara at times got on my nerves because she was just so ready to do anything Falcon says while trying to do the "I want an equal partnership" al-mata. Falcon on the other hand was somewhat of a nice change from the usual acts of the other Carpathian men in the series with a different attitude about him.
Falcon finds Sara on his journey home to which he percieves his last journey before he meets the sun to keep from turning vampire, but he is given new hope in finding his lifemate Sara, but learns she has been hunted since 15 by a vampire as old as he is. He sends her to the Carpathian mountains to find Mikhail and the others to help protect her. Orphans that Sara has been trying to adopt are taken and she is in a head-long flight to try and save them and still escape the vampire. The story was well done and was ended nicely, not overly rushed at all.
My one real quip though is not really with the story, but with the headline on Feehan's website, it starts off, "She's known him since she was fifteen. Every night, he is with her: his face, his voice. Tonight, Sara Marten will meet the man who is both angel and demon, salvation and temptation: Falcon--the Carpathian, the banished hero. Tonight, Sara will meet the dark-eyed destroyer destined to be her mate.. " which makes me think that the story line is something along the lines of he found her when she was 15 and had to wait to claim her till she was an adult and has taken care of her till then, something along that line. Well, its not till you get into the 2nd and 3rd chapter that you find thats not the case at all. And how this book started off, it would have made a good story line, but Feehan took it a different direction that still works quite well.
Marjorie M. Lu's story was apparently a continuing in her series of "Dirk & Steele," agents. I haven't read any of the others. This story includes Charlie and Aggie. It had plenty of excitement, but too many spots and comments left me stopping to think, "What? What did she mean by that comment?" So I just skimmed through most of it thinking it was just okay. I think the review before this one is pretty accurate concerning Liu's story."