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Title: Dark Magic
Author: Christine Feehan
Genre: Romance
ISBN: 0-505-52389-2
Pages: 358
Rating: 2.5/5

About this book:
Though a world-famous magician, young Savannah is held in a terrifying thrall by the most powerful of Carpathian males. With a dark magic all his own, Gregori, whispers in Savannah's mind that she has been born to save his immortal soul. And now, in New Orleans, the time has come to claim her.

My thoughts:
Okay, so this is the 4th book in the "Dark Series" and I wasn't really thrilled with it. I'm 2 for 2 now. I liked the first one, I hated the 2nd one, I loved the 3rd one and now I wasn't thrilled with the 4th one. So like I said, I'm for 2. I'm eventually going to read the whole series but I don't think I can just read them all at one time. There's too much repetitation. Anyways, I liked the characters but I thought that there needed to be something else that spruced up the rest of the story. It was just too much of the same kinda thing and way too much sex in this story. I know her books are like that but just way too much in this one. She just describes all this sex all the time and it lasts like 3 to 4 pages sometimes. Geesh...I think us readers get the picture ya know? I wasn't really thrilled with the story line either...It was mainly the ending though where they go into the swamp to take down the master vampire. I didn't like all that and I didn't like the characters "other characters"...*shrug* However I did like the human that ended up coming into the story which was on the vampire hunters team but realized that all the other workers for that team were trying to hurt the Carpathians...so...therefore he made friends with Gregori and Savannah. :) It was an okay book though. Nothing special though.

Amy

Pages read YTD: 14,417

Title: Dark Desire
Author: Christine Feehan
Genre: Romance
ISBN: 0-8439-5653-4
Pages: 369
Rating: 2.5/5

About this book:
The stranger silently summons her from across the continents, across the seas. He whispers of eternal torment, of endless hunger...of dark, dangerous desires. And somehow American surgeon Shea O'Halloran can feel his anguish, sense his haunting aloneness, and she aches to heal him, to heal herself. Drawn to the far Carpathian mountains, Shea finds a ravaged, raging man, a being like no other. And her soul trembles. For in his burning eyes, his icy heart, she recognizes the beloved stranger who's already become part of her. This imperious Carpathian male compels Shea to his side. But is she to be his healer...or his prey? His victim...or his mate? Is he luring her into madness...or will his dark desire make her whole?

My thoughts:
Okay. I didn't read this whole book this year. I read part of it last year and ended up not finishing it. So...I ended up finishing it this year because I wanna try and finish reading the rest of the series. I hated this book. I couldn't stand it at all. The ending was okay but the beginning and middle was torture to get though in my opinion. I didn't like the characters, I didn't like the place it took place in, I didn't like...all the love making in the book either. I think everything just took a factor in why I didn't like this book. Now, I've been informed that the rest of the series is really good so I will try reading the rest of the series. I can't really say much more than the fact that I didn't like this book so I'm ending it here.

Amy

Books read YTD: 38
Pages read YTD: 12,200

Title: True Believer
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Pages: 322
Rating: 2.5/5
Genre: Fiction

About this book:
As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery. What he doesn't plan on, however, is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, granddaughter of the town psychic. Now, if the young lovers are to have any kind of future at all, Jeremy must make a difficult choice: return to the life he knows, or do something he could never do before -- take a giant leap of faith.

A story about taking chances and following your heart, True Believer will make you, too, believe in the miracle of love.

My thoughts:
Well, I heard both good and bad things about this book. I wouldn't say that it was bad but it was not one of Sparks best books. I must say that I was rather disappointed with it. I guess I'm used to all of his books just thrilling me and enjoying them so much that this was kind of a let down. Like it said, it wasn't bad but it was a little boring. I felt that it moved a little slow but other that that, the story was good. I think that there was a little too much information when Jermey Marsh was researching the ghost stories and the journals of the towns long dead residents.( Spoilers... )

Quotes:

"A minute with a beautiful woman would pass in an instant, while a minute with your hand placed against a hot burner would feel like an eternity."

"Women want the fairy tale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt."

Amy

P.S. Next book that I'll be starting...At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks. Actually the sequel to True Believer.