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    Dark Celebration
    Dark Celebration
    Dark Celebration
    Audiobook12 hours

    Dark Celebration

    Written by Christine Feehan

    Narrated by Richard Ferrone

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    About this audiobook

    Christine Feehan has sent shivers of pleasure up and down the spines of fans enthralled by her New York Times best-selling Carpathian tales. In Dark Celebration, Feehan delivers a unique gift to her readers by bringing together all the characters of Carpathian legend in a celebration of unbridled sensuality. Prince of the Carpathians Mikhail Dubrinsky has witnessed numerous mysterious events during his many centuries on Earth, but now he is faced with the ultimate horror: the extinction of his species. The Carpathians' enemies salivate at the thought of a final victory, but all hope is not lost. The Carpathians gather, united in a desperate hope. And no matter the outcome, blood will be shed and limitless passion unleashed. With its endless feast of erotic delights, Dark Celebration offers everything Feehan's many fans long for. "Feehan has a knack for bringing vampiric Carpathians to vivid, virile life in her Dark Carpathian novels."-Publishers Weekly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 30, 2007
    ISBN9781428197749
    Dark Celebration
    Author

    Christine Feehan

    Christine Feehan is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, with over 90 published novels in seven different series: Dark Series, GhostWalker Series, Leopard Series, Drake Sisters Series, Sea Haven Series, Shadow Series, and Torpedo Ink Series. All seven of her series have hit the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list.

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    • 5/5
      This story had a mixture of fun, mystery and romance. Great listening. I was left wanting find out how things turned out for some of the characters.
    • 5/5
      Lovely ending with all the mystery and excitement that was experienced by each character and the discovering of many blessings of knowing that together they have find the meaning of their lives. Listening to one another and caring for each other there is hope for them and defeating the enemy. Many ups, downs, turns and a lot of ups and down. The much loving and powerful union that lead with much love that also continues giving till the end. But one other family was left with pain and long way to search and find their own. While after having sacrifices his life and that of his life mate for that of the unborn child and mother to be from their enemy. Whose plan was to see their race into extinction because of hate.

    • 5/5
      A chance to reunite all the couples in one book!!! It was good to catch up.New friends old family
    • 5/5
      I loved it ..... I wish you had more from this author
    • 3/5
      I know I have read several books by Christine Feehan. But apparently it was before I started keeping track of what I was reading, and I have forgotten which ones I read and which ones I didn't.

      Dark Celebration brings together all the characters from the Carpathian series. Some of these people I remembered, some I didn't. I felt this book was a little too gimmicky. With one chapter dedicated to each of the couples, the book began to feel very repetitive. There was a cohesive plot tying it all together, but I still felt the author tried to hard to give updates on each of the couples.

      The ending of the book was a let down. It seemed very abrupt and left some unanswered questions. I wanted to know more about what went on at the party after the main group left.

      I think this book will be good for fans of the series to catch up on the different characters. But for the casual reader it felt too disjointed and tried to cover too much ground.
    • 5/5
      It is Christmas in the Carpathian Mountains and from all over the world these intensely sumptuous and dangerous men are returning to their homeland. Some are bringing their lifemates and some are bringing their children. But all of them are looking for a moment of peace and happiness. This was my absolute favorite of the "Dark" Series books. All of the characters from the previous books come together, they are touching in their desire to interact with the humans. It's like reuniting with old friends and family. I would give this a dozen stars if I could.
    • 4/5
      There's no primary couple in this book, unlike the others - instead, we visit the Carpathians during Christmas, and catch up on what everyone's been doing. This book is reasonably important to the series arc plotline. Lots of humor (Mikhail asks Gregori to play Santa Claus, Carpathians try to cook), and also some emotional tragedy (Dimitri and Skyler's first meeting). Scary mage stuff, and Manolito de la Cruz discovering his lifemate and acting like a total creeper. Back end of book full of somewhat uninspired food recipes. We spend a lot of time in Mikhail's viewpoint, which is good. One not to skip.
    • 4/5
      It's a nice Christmas compilation of the Carpathians.
    • 5/5
      Besides Dark Prince, this is my favorite book of the series. Feehan did a great job bringing her whole series to one. I don't want to give a spoiler, but You must read the series 1-16 before thsi book or you will not appreciate this book.
    • 5/5
      This was my favorite out of the whole Dark series!
    • 4/5
      Liked catching up with the couples. Because the story focused on so many couples, the pining looks and reduntant professions were kept to a minimum, which made the book quite enjoyable.
    • 3/5
      Catch up with Mikhail and Raven and all of the rest of the Carpathian lovebirds as they attempt to celebrate Christmas the human way. Cooking - well, kitchen chemistry - ensues. It's fairly banal, but the cooking episodes are entertaining. It would have been nice if the conclusion had actually covered what the dishes turned out like.... Basically, this is a chance to catch up with the couples and set up a few new pairings. The last 30 pages or so are reader contributed recipes.
    • 5/5
      I know this book is apart of a series, although i didn't know that at the time I bought it. I feel in love with every single characters. I laughed with this book and I felt pain with this book.
    • 5/5
      After the recent attack on his life, prince of the Carpathian people Mikhail Dubrinsky has called together all of the hunters and their lifemates for a Christmas celebration in the Carpathian mountains. For some time, his people have been hunted not only by vampires, but also fanatical humans from the Morisson Center for Psychic Research. Now a new threat has surfaced in the form of the evil dark mage Xavier and his grandson Razvan. With enemies joining forces and surrounding his people, Mikhail has begun to worry that they will soon realize that the key to the extinction of the Carpathian race lies not in the destruction of it's hunters - powerful and ancient males - but instead with the annihilation of their lifemates and children. Without the light of a lifemate to anchor the hunter, he would become an incredibly deadly force, capable of unspeakable evil. As one after another of the Carpathian females falls under attack, the people must band together, lending their strength to one another, and work to identify and destroy their assassins.Despite the malevolent forces that seem to constantly besiege the Carpathian people, this book is probably the "lightest" Dark book I've read so far. For the first time in centuries, there are children among the people and someone must play Santa Claus - think about that for a moment... one of the dominant, aggressive, mighty Carpathian males, living legends in their own right, has to play jolly old St. Nick - a much more cheerful and carefree legend. That alone is worth reading the book for - and I'm not going to tell you who receives this grand honor!There is also the small matter of the Christmas feast. As the Carpatians are sharing this holiday with human friends there must also be actual human food, and Raven Dubrinsky, lifemate to the prince, is determined that the women cook the food themselves. The fact that none of them has any real skill in the kitchen seems to have escaped them, and their are plenty of kitchen fires, blown up appliances, and messes in every Carpathian home in the mountains. Even funnier, some of the men attempt to help - picture them in the kitchen with aprons on and flour all over the place!Dark Celebration is definitely a Carpathian book - with new beginnings for some lifemates, pregnancy and birth for others, and revelations about unknown jaguar people and Dragonseekers. It was wonderful to see all the familiar beloved characters from all the other books, and Feehan did a great job of recounting each of their stories as the book went on, to trigger the reader's memory. I enjoyed reading it so much that it was hard to put it down and go the bed. I read it quickly, in less than 2 days, and I really want to re-read the entire series now!
    • 5/5
      It’s a Christmas party and all Carpathians, family and friends are invited to the Mountains that so many of them have not seen for many, many centuries. The gathering of so many hunters and their lifemates should be enough to keep any self preserving enemy away, but after several attacks on the women and a strange feeling in the area, some begin to wonder if this party was a good idea. The duty of the prince, Mikhail Dubrinsky is to ensure the survival of his kind, each male helps to see to the safety and happiness of the women and children and this party was what they needed. Quick thinking and strong, the warriors take on the attacks and the show goes on to the delight of the children and all of the adults.Book 17 ….. A Carpathian Reunion it is. If you have not read every one of the previous 16 stories, you will not understand everything. The author note states that there is no hero or heroine of this book because there are too many strong characters, yes and no… Most of the characters are the heroes in this story. I really enjoyed finally ‘meeting’ Dimitri and Manolito and revisiting all the others, I know (from looking ahead) that Manolito gets his story next and the set-up for it is a bit obvious. Really enjoyed the humor that was interlaced throughout the story, Gregori will now live in my mind as a ’teddy bear’ and it would be fun to see how that (revenge) plays out. I liked the happy delivery, but the build up was so much better, I expected …well, more. Some of it might have been that the story seemed too short (ended on page 298, book has 393 pages), the plus side of that is the neat additions; not only a chapter of Predatory Game, but a section of ‘Deleted Scenes’ (which I can see why of them were taken out, but still fun to read them), also ‘Dark Desserts’ recipes sent in by Christine Feehans fans (I am eager to try a few), an appendix of healing chants, and an appendix of the Carpathian language. All those extras are fun but the story was a blast, thank you Ms. Feehan for finally agreeing to the reunion, even if it turned dark.
    • 4/5
      I'm not really happy with calling this a romance, because it doesn't have a romance plot. But it's not not romance, either. So I'm going by Barnes & Noble, which says it's paranormal romance. Bah. All these genre definitions...Dark Celebration is a Feehan fan's dream come true. It's like the ultra version of those epilogues in romance series that catch you up on the previous couples. The setup is that all the Carpathians are gathered in the Carpathian mountains for a Christmas celebration. Each chapter shows a different couple, and tying it all together is a suspense plot.Anyone who's been reading the series knows that the Carpathian race is dying out--there are few women, even fewer pregnancies, and fewer yet successful ones. Even when a baby is born, it seldom lives long. They're starting to make headway on understanding and solving the problem, but it's a slow process.So women and children are the race's weakness, and with them all gathered together like this, someone is targeting those women and children.Besides the reintroduction of all the characters (I swear I must have missed a story or two somewhere because a couple of the characters were unfamiliar), there are lots of sex scenes, lots of funny scenes, a couple of fights, a couple of revelations, and a couple of lifemates are discovered.It's very typical of the Dark series, both the good--the sensuality, humor, and suspense, and the bad--the uncomfortable dialogue. I wasn't too convinced by the Carpathian women's determination to cook a Christmas dinner by hand: Carpathians don't eat food, and could conjure it. I was going to complain about the sexism of the idea, but, well, this happens in real life, too. And it led to a lot of the funny parts.My favorite parts of the book, though, were those dealing with the as-yet-unattached characters. Teenager Skyler is struggling with the prospect of having a lifemate in her future, Carpathian Manolito is tempted to give in to the dark side, and newly-turned Gabrielle may have to choose between desire and duty. There are hints of at least three future stories.At the end is a collection of dessert recipes sent in by readers. Most of them made my teeth hurt just reading them, but a few looked interesting. And there are sections on the language and healing chants that I think I saw on the website.Bottom line: if you're a fan of the series, it's a must-read. If you're not, you'll probably want to skip it.