Dark Dreamers by Christine Feehan, Marjorie M. Liu Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Dark Dreamers
Book Review: Marjorie Liu story is excellent!
Summary: 5 Stars
As other reviewers have noted, the Christine Feehan is a reprint of a short story from another anthology, so if you already have that anthology, or disliked the story, you'll be disappointed.
However, the Marjorie Liu story is new and excellent! I've bought and kept all of her previous novels and I expect to buy and keep any of her future novels.
Book Review: PLEASE NOTICE
Summary: 5 Stars
DARK DREAMERS is a reissue of the novella in AFTER TWILIGHT. The story of Falcon and Sara is wonderful, but if you have AFTER TWILIGHT you already have this book.
The Marjorie Liu story seems to be new at least I haven't read it before. It is very good.
But if like me your funds are limited, you would want to know that the first 2/3 of the book are a reissue. I waited for this one to come out and they never had any review on the book listed. so I bought it without knowing it was a reissue.
Book Review: Perhaps I'm being harsh but...
Summary: 2 Stars
This book is split evenly between two stories. The first is a typical Christine Feehan vampire story -- very old, depressed vampire meets the love of his life, a young lady psychic who was traumatized by a vampire murdering her family long ago. Their happiness is threatened by a homicidal maniac vampire. The writing was uninspired and passionless -- formulae, as if Feehan just couldn't work up interest or excitement. Ho, hum.
Liu's tale has more life and excitement to it, but problems of its own. The lady, A, can fortell the future, and uses her skills to find & help arrest villains who kidnap and rape children. The man, C, is imprisoned by an evil witch but able to astral travel. C finds A through astral travel and gets her help to rescue a young girl. As you can tell, this is an icky and depressing topic that is entirely non-condusive toward romance.
A accuses everyone of being racist and occasionally makes racist comments. I always find this offensive, but some people who have struggled with discrimination might sympathise. A is also a whiner who blames all of her problems on other people, and refuses to take any responsibility. Grr! I prefer leading ladies with an optimistic outlook on life.
Other than this, Liu's writing is exciting and the setting interesting -- a noticable improvement over her first novel -- but the plot is a downer and not condusive toward romance. Still, you might really enjoy this story.
Book Review: Reissue
Summary: 1 Stars
As other reviewers have noted, the largest part of the book was a reissue. What's even worse is that it wasn't even one of the better books in the series. I was so disgusted that I didn't even bother to read the second story.
Book Review: Story is a must read but book had printer smudges through out and I missed pieces of the story.
Summary: 5 Stars
There is not a book by Christine Feehan that I have read that I don't like and don't imagine I will dislike any of the dark series. I have not read anything from her other series yet but will do so once I get caught up in the dark serieis. Even working full time, being a single Mom and going to school full time as well, I have found it worth the effort to set aside some time for myself everyday to read this serieis and they are well worth the effort.