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    Dark Destiny
    Dark Destiny
    Dark Destiny
    Audiobook14 hours

    Dark Destiny

    Written by Christine Feehan

    Narrated by Richard Ferrone

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    New York Times best-selling author Christine Feehan skillfully weaves strands of the paranormal and romance to create her suspense-filled novels. When Destiny was only a child, her family was murdered and she was transformed into a Carpathian-a powerful and shadowy creature of the night, but not quite a vampire. Destiny shares a telepathic connection with Nicolae, her mentor. But now Nicolae needs to find her, or he may lose his soul and succumb to darkness forever.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 12, 2007
    ISBN9781436111980
    Dark Destiny
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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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    • 5/5
      Destiny .... just her name sounds dated. Abducted as a small child,tortured and beaten by a vampire.Destiny feels she is lost to the dark,a voice in the darkness has been her savior thru the years.Finally she puts a face to the voice and her live is changed forever, Nikolai represents hope.....This was A wonderful book❤️❤️❤️?❤️❤️❤️ each lost soul in the carpathian family touched a part of me.LOVE THIS SERIES ❤️??

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    • 5/5
      Dark Destiny is the thirteenth book in the longest series, Dark Series, by Christine Feehan, which was published in July 2004. The story is centered in Seattle, WA, and revolves around much different expectations, not like any of the dark series books that I have read in the past. Coming to know and learning all about what the little girl went through from the hands of the vampires. Having believed that she was unclean and unworthy of the love and kindness of the surrounding people. And to make it after all a quiet and enjoyable end and to have gained more.
      Additionally, The story is set in Seattle, WA, and revolves around Nicolae Von Shrieder - an ancient with immense powers - and Destiny - a powerful psychic who has bad blood from the vampire who converted her. The blood of the vampire serves as a beacon to the vampires also, attracting the vampires. Among being on several of the bestseller lists, this book was honored to be the Finalist for the 2004 PEARL Award for Best Shapeshifter.
      The Carpathians are a powerful and ancient race who are near-immortals living for thousands of years with powers and gifts that no man can fathom. Despite their gifts and extended lifespans, they are at the age of extinction as fewer and fewer children are being borne and far lesser of females. Without their female counterpart aka "life mates" the male Carpathians lose the ability to feel emotions leaving the males with a hard choice: either become a vampire or "greet the dawn". Now that Prince Mikhail Dubrinsky finds a life-mate in a human female with psychic abilities and is capable of converting, there is hope for all the other Carpathian males who have been holding off from turning into vampires–the very creature that they hunt and kill to save the humans and Carpathians alike.
      After being brutally tortured as a child, Destiny has been living with nightmares that flow literally in her blood. She had no peace and her only saving grace was a golden voice that guided her through her nightmares, taught her how to protect and fight, and giving her the motive to move forward in her life. Yet, when he calls her to him, she doesn’t go. And now this golden voice, Nicolae Von Shrieder, comes to her aid physically when she needed him again. She has to find the courage in herself to embrace his darkness, for she is his light, even though she thinks of herself as dark. Will she embrace and become his destiny for real?
      Nicolae is an ancient who was sent out centuries ago by Prince Mikhail Dubinsky’s father, known as Vladimir Dubrinsky, to fight the vampires that haunt the earth. He has been searching for his light for so long, little did he realize that the little girl who had reached out to him years ago in pain would be his light. He needs a healer, but his healer is tainted. How will they bind and survive the darkness in both of them and yet finally reach the light?
      Nicolae was able to call the healer the second in command to their prince he is known as the dark one. His name is Gregori from a powerful family and dynasty are great healers and protectors of the prince lineages.
    • 5/5
      Finally a book where i didn't want to beat up the main male.
    • 4/5
      This is actually one of my favorite books in the series. Destiny is a very damaged person, but she's incredibly strong - a vampire hunter who was turned by a vampire. She's led her lifemate on a merry chase for over a decade, and he doesn't really have a clue what to do with her, now that he's caught her. Fortunately, both Destiny and Nicholae are fairly deep, well-fleshed characters, and there's some great mystery plot stuff going on, in addition to some important series story arc stuff.We get introduced to Mary Anne Delaney, who is important, and we also get introduced to Vikirnoff VonShrieder, who is very robotic - understandably, as it turns out later in the series.This is Nicholae VonShrieder and Destiny's story. Not one to skip.
    • 4/5
      Nicolae and Destiny. Vampires who fight vampires together...It makes sense in it's own way
    • 4/5
      Two Minute review for “Dark Destiny” by Christine FeehanTo say Destiny had bad childhood would be like saying the Grand Canyon is a bit of a dip. Lucky for the reader, there are not a lot of details. But through it all Nicolae was in her head, keeping her sane, teaching her how to kill the Vampire that was torturing her and trying to find her . Nicolae and Destiny are Carpathians. Good Vampires that hunt rogue vampire killers but Destiny does not know this. She thinks she is an evil killer and so is Nicolae. This is not my favorite series, that said, I loved this book. Strong characters, wonderful detailed writing, and lots of action.
    • 5/5
      The pain of conversion to Carpathians is difficult enough for the women, but a child being converted by a vampire leaves tainted blood and horrible scars, inside and outside. At the a young age, Destiny knew horrors most humans can’t even imagine, the only way she survived was her mental connection to Nicolae Von Shrieder. He taught her how to survive, how to hunt and how to live again even though he could not find her. Being connected allowed him to help, but Nicolae couldn’t protect her they way he wanted and he couldn’t convince her that he was different from the monster that had terrorized her for so long. When he finally tracked her down, Destiny was afraid she would have to destroy him like she did all the other vampires she hunted. When Nicolae first heard her voice, he knew she was his lifemate and he was going to have a difficult life, no one had ever heard of a women hunter, or one of the light having vampire blood making her feel like the dark one.Book 13 ….. Strong, courageous and funny, Destiny is a very competent women and hunter. The more ancient these men get, the more compassionate they seem to be. Nicolae has such great control of himself and Destiny is such a well developed character, I really enjoyed watching the change (almost like another conversion) from the vampire world to the life of a Carpathian. This book is packed full of great characters. The addition of Gregori, Savannah, brother Vikirnoff, Father Mulligan, MaryAnn Delaney, Velda, Inez, and even the vampire Pater to help tell this story was great, they are wonderful characters and I hope to have a few more stories that include some of them (Vikirnoff and MaryAnn especially).
    • 5/5
      And it's not just "a" book review - it's my LAST book review of the year! Luckily, Dark Destiny was a really good book to end 2008 with. This is book 13 in Christine Feehan's Dark Carpathian series.Dark Destiny is the story of Destiny (duh), a female Carpathian hunter - something unheard of in the previous 12 books of this series. Destiny was not born a Carpathian though. She was just an innocent child of 5 or 6 with strong psychic abilities, when a vampire found her. He killed her family and converted her, then spent years abusing her in every way you can possibly fathom. That's when she cried out to her savior. Nicolae, ancient Carpathian hunter and protector of his people, heard the suffering of a child in his mind. He spent years trying to shield her from her pain. He taught her how to survive her captor, and eventually, how to destroy him and escape. From that day on, Destiny traveled the world, hunting and destroying the undead. She hated herself for what she had become, and so she hid from Nicolae, afraid that he was a vampire, afraid that she would have to one day destroy the only thing that kept her alive.Nicolae was patient, he knew his salvation depended upon finding her, and he finally tracked her down in the mountains not far from Seattle. He and his brother Vikirnoff arrived just in time to help her escape a brutal attack from a group of vampires. After much persuading and explanation from Nicolae, Destiny decides that he is not a vampire, even though she can see the beast within him "roaring for release". She doesn't think she can be his lifemate however. Because her blood was tainted with the poison of the vampire that made her, she believes she is evil as well. Nicolae and Vikirnoff believe that if they can get Destiny to their homeland in the Carpathian mountains, the healers among their people will be able to rid her of the toxins in the vampire's blood.Nicolae endures as she tries to work through her trauma so that they can be together, and is delighted when she eventually reaches out to him for help with a neighborhood mystery.Something is terribly wrong in Destiny's neighborhood, with the people she has chosen to protect. They are acting out in violence, completely of character, harming their loved ones. Afterwards, they have not memory of what happened. Destiny and Nicolae cannot detect the vampire's touch in them, but something is amiss. Together, as they struggle to be what each other needs, they try to unravel the mystery of what is happening to the city.Dark Destiny is one of the best Dark books I've read so far. Destiny was a strong female character - she had to be, and Nicolae was by far the most patient male yet! The "supporting cast" was good as well: the little old ladies Velda and Inez - practically the eyes and ears of the neighborhood; the social worker Mary Ann - risking her life to protect and save battered women in need; Father Mulligan, the local priest who knows about the Carpathian race and the good they do to defend humans and immortals alike from vampires.Dark Destiny was well written, with an original storyline and fantastic, fully-formed characters.
    • 3/5
      Vampires banding together? Oh no!Luckily Destiny is a hunter. Nicolae swore to find the child who was taken by the darkness but the child grew to become te hunter. Together, they solve the mysterious occurances in Seattle. Some monsters might not be vampires. Most of the time, they are humans. Destiny, Nicolae and Vikirnoff gets to the bottom of things and save the town.MaryAnn Delaney makes her first appearance.I thinks its an ok book. Not one of my faves but it is ok.I do feel sorry for Velda. If only Pater found her like 40 years earlier.
    • 5/5
      It probably won't be often that I give a book at 10/10 rating, but I decided this one deserved it for reasons I'll go into below.Yet again, the fact I read Christine Feehan (in fact, pretty much everything she publishes) is because I got suckered in my Barbara the Bookseller. That's okay. I discovered a good author and she gets a lot of my business. In fact, she was so sure she could convert both me and the friend I was shopping with on the day in question, she gave us a second hand copy of the first Carpathian book, Dark Prince. She gave away one book and between us we've probably bought about forty or so Feehans since then. I'm not sure who won.Dark Destiny is the thirteenth Carpathian book. I wasn't as impressed as usual with the last one (Dark Melody) although I admit I'm still not sure why. It just didn't gel as well with me as some of the others have. So I started this one wondering if this was a general trend or a one-off that just hadn't quite worked for me. It was soon clear that it was the latter. In my opinion, Dark Destiny is possibly the best of the series.Destiny (I don't think we ever learn her last name) was beguiled by a vampire when she was six. She unwittingly led him to her family and he murdered them in front of her, before abducting her and forcing her to take his blood. In her desperation to survive years of torture and abuse, Destiny reached out and touched another mind. I was a man, one she believed to be another vampire, who taught her all the skills and talents she needed to become a hunter. At fourteen she killed the vampire who had taken her and since then has been hunting the evil creatures.Destiny made one error. She had not made contact with another vampire, but with Nicolae Von Shrieder, an ancient Carpathian. He has been trying to find Destiny for years, and as the book begins, he finally does so. When he finds her, his grey world explodes into colour and he realises Destiny is his lifemate.Nicolae has a hard task ahead of him. Not only does he has to convince Destiny of what she is to him, he also first has to prove to her that he is not a vampire and that she, despite having been converted by one, is not either. Destiny, because of her terribly abusive childhood, is a scarred and damaged survivor, who does not know how to trust; she believes herself to be fundamentally evil (and while her actions quickly prove this untrue to the reader, she is unable to see it herself) and she has closed herself off from the possibility of friends, let alone the binding love of lifemates.The reason I have chosen to rate this so highly is because of the way Feehan has handled the sensitive issues of an abuse survivor. Nothing drives me crazy more that a book where the heroine is shown to have been terribly abused, but once she meets the hero she is swept away by his amazing virility and suddenly everything is all right. Feehan has avoided this with care, sensitivity and style.Destiny learns slowly. Even as her instincts involve her with people and draw her to Nicolae, she's fighting it. She comes to trust slowly with false starts. Sex is a frightening experience, no matter how right it feels and - hooray - it is a development, not a cure. Even by the last chapter of the book, when Destiny has grown and learned so much, when she's discovering it is safe to laugh and be happy, "the scars remained in her heart and mind".I am blessed and lucky. The horrors of abuse of any kind have passed me by and I can only be grateful for that. So I cannot say if this is truly an honest and appropriate treatment of the subject, shifted into Feehan's fantasy world. But it does look to me that it is, and that is a large part of what impressed me so much. She tells a great story, introduces another set of wonderful characters you want to know more about, depicts again a wonderful tale of love, and yet, amongst it all, maintains a sense of great truth.The book also introduces a sparkling set of minor characters and I look forward to having a chance to catch up with at least some of them again. I hope Vikirnoff finds his lifemate (like others, I have my suspicions about who it will be) and I hope we get to see Mary Ann again (I think it should be in the Carpathian mountains - it's time we had another story there). Velda and Inez were a delight; Velda's tragedy such a touching sadness - and an explanation of something I hadn't even thought about before.The whole Carpathian series is great, this one especially so.