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    Dark Predator

    Written by Christine Feehan

    Narrated by Erik Bergmann and Kristine Ryan

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    About this audiobook

    All New from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

    As brutal as the undead he hunted, Zacarias De La Cruz was a master executioner. Now his stark and savage journey has ended. For his brothers, Zacarias had walked to the edge of madness, but with centuries as a killing machine now left to the past and without a hunt to define him, Zacarias wonders, for the first time in his life, who he really is.

    The answer awaits him back home, in Peru, in the betrayal of a woman who is readying her trap, in the vengeance of an old enemy, in the inevitable consequences of a bloody family legacy-and in the deliverance of a lifemate he never could have imagined...




    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 6, 2011
    ISBN9781101523155
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    Dark Predator
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    Christine Feehan

    Christine Feehan is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, with over 90 published novels in seven different series: Dark Series, GhostWalker Series, Leopard Series, Drake Sisters Series, Sea Haven Series, Shadow Series, and Torpedo Ink Series. All seven of her series have hit the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list.

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    • 2/5
      Either this series lost its appeal, or this is just less interesting than the other books.
    • 3/5
      She could have done so much more with this than she did. And you shouldn't finish reading a book and hate the main male protagonist.
    • 5/5
      It is impressive to come to the knowledge about the last but yet the first of the five brothers and family of the De La Cruz. Most interesting to learn and know the worth of family and love and staying connected with the truth. The family of De La Cruz suffered the lost both of their parents and learned significantly from that loss. At the same time, but they stayed with each other protecting and caring for each other, till the last one of them find love, joy, and true happiness. Happiness is hard to come by without bits of patience; One can lose their soul. This is the best of all the five brothers' story I enjoy this very much.
    • 3/5
      Really a low point for Feehan. A sadistic book with truly gross graphic sex way beyond her usual which I skim through anyway in preference for the continuing plot and story of the Carpathian Prince & his people.
    • 5/5
      I couldn't put it down. A domineering vampire and his mute housekeeper.
    • 4/5
      After the last few books I read of Christine Feehan's Carpathians, I thought I might not continue reading. I was so disappointed with Dark Peril, I really thought, 'that's it'. Luckily I found the hard cover for $1.50 in the used book store. Yea, because I enjoyed this one.

      CF has a way of droning on and on about emotions and feelings, and she does that in this book too but she keeps the action going to some extent so as not to loose the reader to boredom of repetitiveness as some of her books do. If she keeps it moving and doesn't repeat too much, she can create quite a story and relationship. Which I think she managed to do in this one.

      The Hero and heroine make sense and their conflict, and hurt, comes from misunderstanding that is realistic to their situation, caused by the difference in culture and age. The heroine having been raised in a family devoted to the protection of the Carpathians and their secrets. So Maria, trying to save Zacharias even by giving up her freedoms seemed possible. The relationship starts very rocky and slow starts to burn. The sex scenes in the book didn't bored me as it seem different from the carob copy sex of some of the other books. They ended up having great chemistry.

      Overall the book was a very good addition to the Carpathians with not too much repetitiveness, a good story line, and good chemistry. The only real complaint was that the conflict between them seem to resolve too fast.
    • 3/5
      Meh.

      This one wasn't my favorite, these books are becoming rather predictable. I wish these were more like "Dark Celebration". That book was a refreshing change of pace.

      I do commend Christine Feehan on coming up with new and inventive ways of disposing of the vampires.
    • 3/5
      Review Originialy posted on ByTheBroomstck.blogspot.comI'll be honest, I read a few reviews that ripped Christine a new one for this book, and I was all ready to go into the book hating Zacarius. As I was reading this book I remembered why I had stopped reading these novels, in truth I remembered when I read Dark Secret, even as I re-read the anthologies I remembered. As I read the books I realised there is a lot of violence in this world, particularly aimed at women. Many of the 'heroes' of the series make it their mission to claim these women, but want the women to conform to their idea of a mate; few ever take into consideration the feelings of said mate with the notable exception of a few: Riodarn, Triann, Lucian & Gabriel & in some instances Gregori are perhaps the only males who made conscious efforts to take into account the feelings of the women they were marrying.Z had found his mate but it didn't happen the way others were able to claim their mates, which made him doubtful and in truth resentful of his mate. He was for the first 100 or so pages a complete a**hole to his mate. He was physically, emotionally & mentally abusive within the first few moments of being awake with her. As I read I understood why he did it, yet I still couldn't get down with Z as a hero.This is perhaps the hardest book to read, there was almost no romance in the book until way later. Z is clearly a breast man which he obsessively lets us know as he seduces his mate; he very rarely thinks about what she would like, which is different from the other men, who seem to really want their mates to be happy.Pros:Z is perhaps the hardest of the Carpathians, he is the closest to turning vampire and in fact has only been kept alive because his family won't let him die. This make him one heck of a character to read.Margarita is the first female we meet who has any kind of 'imperfection' or who isn't a 'perfect specimen', yes i know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but when she describes all the women, it's hard to 1)imagine them being mated to someone so different 2)really putting ourselves in their places and really getting into the novel.Z as a character is far more complicated & nuanced than any of the previous Carpathians, he had some deep issues he needed to deal with and much like a human he hid from them.Margarita never backed down, she wasn't easily cowed, but she was the perfect submissive & I think that's where Christine Feehan lost a few people, she described 'subspace' when discussing the relationship between Margarita and Zacarius and those who aren't aware or comfortable with BDSM perhaps didn't get it or catch that phrase and understand the relationship between Z and M.When you learn his background you can kind of understand why Z is the way he is, he's complicated and has some deep emotional issues that he doesn't know how to handle so this made him way more real than the other men.This book far outpaced the others in action and in hte workings of the vampires, I think she learned they couldn't wash as just idiots because they turned vampires, especially if they were once 'great Carpathian', we really get to see them in this novel, & even interact with a fewDominic makes a nice return and share some seriously needed humor in this book, although his moment was only brief. Cons:Zacarius is clearly the dominant one in the relationship, but there is a fine line between being a Dom and being domineering a**hole and sometimes Z looks at that line and tap dances over it without any remorse.there are instances within the story that make me wonder about this book, is it supposed to be a 'romance' because if it is, it's seriously lacking the 'romance' aspect. Most of this book is from Z's POV and he is deeply entrenched within his own head and doesn't attempt to understand M's reasoning at allPerhaps because of his decision early on in the book, Z seemed to dislike and sometimes really hate MRape seems to be used quite often in these novels especially in this one, Z made a thought that he wished to just 'take without consent' pg 75 ugh PAUSE not cool Z not cool. When a female character didn't do as she was told, a family 'friend' almost raped her. I personally think she throws these scenes thinking it helps the story, infact it wasn't necessary, at least not to me.Z keeps mentioning he is an older, meaner, hunter than the others, but he is at least 1000 years younger than Lucian & Gabriel and they didn't treat their mates this way AT ALL.This is a hard book to rate, I wouldn't say "Burn rubber to get it", but it's not a "Don't bother" either. It falls somewhere in between, If you have space on your bookshelves and want to read a book, then this is one you can check out. I liked it, but I won't be repeating the experience.Happy Reading
    • 4/5
      Zacarias De La Cruz is a Carpathian, one who is a creature of the night, feeds off blood and is a shapeshifter. Those of his race that succumb to the evil of killing when they feed become the hated vampire and the prey of the hunter Zacarias. A hunter who has not found his lifemate must struggle everyday not to turn into that which he hunts. Zacarias has been a hunter for over a 1,000 years and has put aside the notion of ever finding a mate. Those with no mate lose the ability to see in color and they lose all emotions. Zacarias has lost those things even younger than any other Carpathian. All that has kept him going for a millennia is his honor and the fact he needed to be sure his four brothers and his Prince were safe.Now that his brothers have all found their lifemates and there are many capable hunters to keep the Prince safe he has decided to end his life in honor instead of embracing the shadows on his soul and forcing his brothers to hunt him. He heads to his ranch in South America in time to meet the sun, but a woman intervenes and saves him.Marguarita Fernandez has served the De La Cruz family her whole life. A few months before the start of Dark Predator she is attacked by a vampire and refuses to give up the De La Cruz’s resting place, so the vampire rips out her vocal cords. Before she can bleed to death Zacarias arrives and saves her life. Now, he has returned and she feels compelled to save him from himself.After 22 books of the Carpathians I wondered how Christine Feehan was going to write this one since we saw very little of Zacarias in any of the other books. I really liked the character development of Zacarias and the fact that Marguarita couldn’t speak. Zacaraias is touched by shadows and is disconnected from his emotions. That makes him an excellent hunter, but a not very good mate. Luckily, Marguarita is a psychic and can touch those that are wild, mostly animals, but Zacarias counts. She can sense the emotions that he thinks aren’t there and helps him.The bad thing about this book is the repetition. I lost track of how many times Zacarias thought about the shadows on his soul, how he had no emotions, how he was a solitary hunter and how his erection around Marguarita was ‘heavy’. I loved the story itself and how the characters were flawed yet managed to be whole when together, but the constant repetition and reiteration drove me near insane. Ms. Feehan did this early on in the series and looked to have gotten it under control in the last books, but this newest book was, I believe, the worst offender so far.
    • 4/5
      The last of the de la Cruz brothers, Zacharias has fought too many battles and knows he's on the verge of surrendering to his darker urges. Refusing to stain his honor further by forcing his brothers to hunt him down, he decides to face the dawn. He doesn't reckon on the stubborn nature of one stubborn young retainer, who refuses to allow him to burn. Marguarita may have lost her voice, and she fears she's lost her mind - but she isn't able to leave Zacharias to die. Obviously they're lifemates, but is Zacharias already too far gone?I keep picking Feehan's books up, hoping for a return to the vibrancy and entertainment factor of her earlier books. Although the language is at times overwrought and and a bit saccharine, and smacking either (or both) main characters crossed my mind more than once, at least if didn't read as if Feehan simply wrapped a slightly different story around the same characters she's been using for the last few books.
    • 5/5
      Being one of the most deadly and successful vampire hunters of the Carpathian race, after so many centuries of gray, Zacarias De La Cruz decided to greet the morning sun. Choosing the De La Cruz Peruvian Ranch, he headed there and prepared himself with his final vision. As a member of the De La Cruz ranch, Marguarita Fernandez knew what the brothers were, seeing Zacarias laying on the ground at sunrise scared her into action. Getting him covered and out of the sun was her first priority, later she would deal with the consequences of going against his orders. The drive to save him was so strong she felt she couldn’t do anything else. Facing down a vampire had not been as scary as defying Zacarias, but that is what she simply had to do.Book 22 ….. The strongest, most feared of the De La Cruz family, I was really looking forward to this one and was not disappointed. Could not put ‘Dark Predator’ down. The strength and courage Marguarita had in facing everything that she faced, and then to face off with Zacarias. One of the reasons I enjoy the Carpathian series is that most of the women show just as much, if not more, courage than the men do. The great Carpathian men are suppose to be strong, finding a woman to take them on is fun to watch. Defiantly a great addition to the series . Have to wait another year to see if we get another story, I really hope so.
    • 3/5
      I have only read some of Feehan's newer Carpathian books and for the most part have really enjoyed them. I find it hard to say just how much I liked(or disliked) this one. It completely grabbed me and I could not stop reading it BUT I found myself having a hard time liking the heroine, Marguarita, and I did not like Zacarias at all! The common theme of the Carpathian males are that they are overbearing and have over protectiveness issues but Zacarias went way beyond overbearing and straight into abusive. I found his first attack on Marguarita to be overly brutal for "just teaching her a lesson" and even after he supposedly begins to fall in love with her whenever she goes against his wishes his immediate reaction is to physically harm her and brutalize her. Even when he finally brings her fully into the Carpathian world it isn't an action of a man in love and wanting to be with his lifemate. It's a pissed off guy who wants to teach his "woman" a lesson and show her what happens when she tries to think for herself and make her own decisions.The worst part was that Marguarita just sucks it all up and says it's her mission to "save" him and it's not really that he's attacking her. Ummm, hello?! He brutally takes your blood to teach you a lesson, throws you against a wall because you did something he didn't like and basically kills you in a temper tantrum without a care for what you really want. That's not a lifemate to me, that's an abusive spouse you are stuck with for all eternity.What really kept me reading was the fact that I've missed the last few books and was trying to catch up on what was going on in general with the Carpathian race and the war against the vampires. I really need to go catch up on the series since it sounds like a lot of interesting things have happened. The other motive was thinking that Zacarias had to have some sort of redeeming trait and Marguarita was going to grow a spine and tell him to shape up.And I can't end this review without mentioning I will be a happy person if I never have to read the line "sun scorch you, woman" again. Ugh, for awhile there it felt like Zacarias was saying that every other page. So all in all I couldn't really stand the characters but apparently a lot has been going on in the Carpathian world so this book did peak my interest to go back and read the older ones.
    • 2/5
      Fans of the Dark Series may be disapointed with this latest installment to the series, which relates the story of the eldest De La Crus brother, Zacharias. The main characters, Zacharias and Margarita somehow never quite seem fully fleshed out. Their romance is rushed and Zacharias boarders on abusive during several interactions with Margarita. The overall plot to bring about the downfall of the Carapathians is not advanced. All in all, while not a bad read, the novel just does not seem to advance the overall series at all.
    • 4/5
      This book is not my favorite one. I tend to like the ones that have more interaction of the rest of the characters we know. also why does it work so slow on him seeing the colors missed that somewhere. But glad zacarias found his soul mate. It did keep my attention the whole way through the book.