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Review—Dark Celebration

Christine Feehan wrote Dark Celebration. The book was published in September, 2006 by the Berkley Publishing Group; it has 372 pages.

The Carpathian Mountains is where a gathering of family and friends is about to take place. The Carpathians are the Hunters; they are ageless warriors who have sought out vampires and other forces of evil for centuries. The time is winter and the warriors and their families are celebrating the Christmas season. Families from across the world are joining together for the festivities. With this gathering, come incendiary threats from unseen and unknown directions.

Mikhail Dubrinsky is the prince of the Carpathian people. He shoulders the tremendous responsibilities to his family and friends with capable hands. For hundreds of years Carpathian males have been unable to see colors or feel emotions. During this time they have honed their hunting, tracking and killing abilities. The Carpathian females have frequently died in childbirth or their newborns have died within the first year of life. The Carpathian people are dying. The males will turn into a vampire, the creatures they hunt and vanquish, unless they find a life-mate. Many of the males have found a life-mate and this is when they see colors and feel again. This is also when they raise families.

The Carpathians are now working with humans to help find a way to make pregnancies and the newborn’s first year safer. They are also finding that human females are bringing back the colors and emotions to the males. The race may have a chance and they must be protected. Even in this joyous event dangers lurk around the corners and in the mist.

Christine Feehan has written a series of novels surrounding the romances and rebirth of this group of Carpathians and the trials they face. This novel involves many of those she has written about previously and whom she has brought together for this occasion. The Dark series includes these couples and how they fall in love and conquer their challenges. The characters are engaging and humorous through the situations they find themselves in. Try this one and the others if this book is enjoyed.