Dark Prince by Christine Feehan
Blurb
Raven Whitney is a psychic who has used her gift to help the police track down a serial killer. Now she is determined to escape the glare of recent publicity for the peace and quiet of the Carpathian Mountains. Despite her own emotional fatigue, Raven finds herself connecting psychically to another wounded individual somewhere close by. Prince Mikhail Dubrinsky is the leader of his people but, as his ancient Carpathian race grows ever closer to extinction, he is close to giving in to the heavy weight of loneliness and despair. Then a female voice enters his mind and tries to console him. Intrigued, Mikhail becomes obsessed with finding this unusual human female. From the moment their minds touch, Raven and Mikhail form a connection. But there are those who incorrectly view all Carpathians as vampires, and are determined to give their extinction a helping hand.
The concept of this particular series of stories, from what I could gather from this book, is that the male “Carpathians” (or vampires to the rest of us – they drink blood, are immortal, etc, which to me constitutes vampiric behaviour) need to find their life-mate or consign themselves to becoming some kind of monster – I think losing any kind of emotional feeling and, by all accounts, only seeing in black and white.
When I first started to read this book, I was sure it was set in the 19th century, and it was only when a computer was mentioned in passing that I realised this wasn’t the case. The novel has a very old-world feel, making me think of Bram Stoker”s Dracula (not so much in the fact that this is going to be a classic novel, but the style of writing). While Christine Feehan is, obviously, a very good writer – she has an excellent way of wording things so that you can actually visualise what she’s describing – I found this story to be quite boring. At times I paused to wonder what exactly the point in the novel was, but since I felt the same about Sherrilyn Kenyon”s first Dark Hunter book and am now a huge fan of the novels, I persevered. This isn”t the best book out there and is, in a lot of places, extremely boring to the point of making me want to cast it aside. The characters didn’t really grab me and suck me in to their world. And the whole relationship between Raven and Mikhail was too quick and accepted to be believable.
I do have the rest of the books in my To Read and Review pile and I”m hoping that, like the Dark Hunter series, they become better the more she writes.
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