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| Author: Christine Feehan
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  130 reviews
Sales Rank: 192721
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1ST
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.4 x 1.5
ISBN: 0425211673
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425211670
Publication Date: September 5, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 I love Feehan! March 31, 2008
I've read everything Christine Feehan has written. I love all her stuff. I'm so excited when a new book comes out!
 What a Reunion! March 11, 2008
Anyone who is a fan of the Carpathians must read this book. To truly get the most out of it--read it last so that you can relate and remember all of the wonderful "dark series" books Christine Feehan has written.
Pleasing February 20, 2008
Dark Celebration was a great book. I really laughed at every character as they attempted to make dishes and the reactions to how The Dark One would be playing Santa. I was happy with the development of Skyler and how Natalya did have something more powerful of a role against the mage attacking them. I also enjoyed how all of them were there, and the interactions with each other and their lifemates.
I can't wait to read Manolito and MaryAnn's story as well as Skyler and Dimitri's.
 Just a rehash of the previous books February 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Dark Celebration" was touted as the reunion of many of the characters from the Carpathian series at a pseudo-Christmas party, but most of the characters don't meet up in one place until five pages from the end of the book! The rest is a rehash of the most basic premise of the entire series (males needing lifemates, blah blah they're sad and can't see colors la la la) and ALL of the characters' backstories. There's not much vampire killing, but there is whole boatload of angst about all the tough stuff that sexy, perfect, incredibly wealthy immortal beings have to deal with daily. It all gets a bit boring after a while, as none of the characters ever really grow or change. This is especially obvious in this entry to the series, where some of the characters have been married to each other for over fifty years. A little relationship development would be great, if only because this is a series, not a bunch of standalones set in the same story universe. Romance fans looking for steamy action scenes will be somewhat disappointed; fans looking for story arcs and plot development (i.e. the bad guys hunting their species, the abnormalities causing Carpathian babies to die in infancy) will be very disappointed.
 So tedious, and the humor is just dumb January 17, 2008
I'm listening to this book on audiotape, which usually enhances any book, but at disk 5 of 11, I'm so bored! She keeps flipping between characters, but it's unfortunate because it just emphasizes how very similar all of her books in a series are. Lonely woman drawn to lifemate, he's a tormented hardened warrior right on the brink of turning vampire, she resists, he captures her by force, she acquiesces and then falls in love with him, they're telepathically linked and blissful. Okey-dokey. Now, as an avid romance novel reader, I know that formulaic plots and fairly boilerplate characters are no impediment to enjoyment - I just don't like to see them stacked right next to each other so I see the repetition.
Oh, and that whole Christmas dinner thing, while a good idea (make the villagers think we're real humans), is so eye-rollingly contrived by the 10th woman huffingly upset about messing up her baking... and if the freakin' prince tells *one more* person that he's going to make his son-in-law dress like St. Nick ("but he'll scare the children!) I'm going to scream.
So in all, I think I'm going to have to soldier through the other 6 disks just to find out what's going on (not that we haven't found out in the other books), and then just stick with the one-couple books.
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