A), Dark Slayer (Carpathian Novel

This novel not only repeats previous "Dark" series bits, but it repeats itself. The tedium of this uninspiring romance is certainly not relieved by the pages and pages of boring chants (in Carpathian and English if you please) and spells. The concept may have been interesting. The pages of this stuff felt like cheap fillers.

I do not require the fictitious Carpathian language to make the characters come alive. I do require a coherent character development, dialogs that are not horribly trite and situations that are compatible with the established premises. I got none of that. Good thing I got those 40 pages of explanations on who these people are, their language and history, right? Well - no. That did not add anything to the book. What is its purpose? The utter pretentiousness is grating. Are we all to go to conventions speaking Carpathian much like Star Trek fans learn Klingon??

This book is not exactly a huge disappointment inasmuch as the previous few books in the series left me with little hope of finding anything fresh or interesting. The purple prose is worse than ever in this particular offering. The only thing new with this book is that I was unable to finish it. It was too boring and life's too short for bad books.

Although a little different from her usual format, Dark Slayer was as good as all the other Christine Feehan Dark Series I have read--and I have read them all. It takes a little time to get used to Razvan being a good guy, but I was happy to see the return of Ivory, who was thought lost. A good read anytime, but especially for Halloween!

Although a little different from her usual format, Dark Slayer was as good as all the other Christine Feehan Dark Series I have read--and I have read them all. It takes a little time to get used to Razvan being a good guy, but I was happy to see the return of Ivory, who was thought lost. A good read anytime, but especially for Halloween!