Reviewed By Crystal
Book~~ Dark Possession by Christine Feehan
This one was another good one. MJB gives it 4 stars. Because it didn’t knock my socks off or make my panties wet. So 4 Stars it is. So to start, the cover is a new one. The first edition of this book came out in 2007.
Text design by Tiffany Estreicher
The blurb: Manolito De La Cruz knew he was dangerously close to turning into a vampire. The last thing he expected after being called back to his Carpathian homeland by Prince Mikhail was to catch the scent of his destined lifemate in MaryAnn Delaney. MaryAnn is human, but she knows all too well the overwhelmingly aggressive instincts of Carpathian males. And they’re not exactly the kind of men she’d prefer to be bound to for life.
A dedicated counselor for battered women, MaryAnn has a fulfilling life with no room for someone like Manolito, born and bred in the Carpathian mountains, a law unto himself. But when MaryAnn agrees to go to South America to offer guidance to a brutalized young woman, she has no idea of the trap that awaits her in the sweltering thick of the jungle. She has been lured there by Manolito himself, who has seductive plans for the unaware, irresistibly human female…
From the jump, as with most of Ms. Feehan’s books, this one pulls you right in with the first line. “Manolito De La Cruz woke beneath the dark earth with his heart pounding, bloodred tears streaking his face and grief overwhelming him. OK Ms. Feehan. I’m hooked. And now that I am, lets get down to business. The blurb is lacking that “buy me now” punch that we’ve come to expect from this author, but again, this is an older novel. That aside, The story is ageless. I was sucked in and stayed that way. No part of the plot fell flat or was jumpy or didn’t fit, until the very end. There was the part, as a big fan of Ms. Feehan’s where my jaw dropped and not in a good way. The ending was just too easy and just a little too much like “Because. That’s why and they lived happily ever after.” wah wah wah. I hate saying that about one of my favorite’s, but here at MJB we are HONEST first, then let’s work to make it better. So as a reader, yeah, it’s a good story, but it doesn’t have that wow factor i was hoping for.
