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    Dangerous Tides
    Dangerous Tides
    Dangerous Tides
    Audiobook13 hours

    Dangerous Tides

    Written by Christine Feehan

    Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times best-selling author Christine Feehan pens paranormal romances that get her fans' hearts racing. In Dangerous Tides, Dr. Libby Drake uses her incredible healing powers to help mend the emotionally scarred Ty Derrick. But their burgeoning relationship is threatened by a mysterious man who wants to use Libby's talents for his own dark purposes. "... a tempting blend of paranormal romance and mystery."-Booklist
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 15, 2007
    ISBN9781436111973
    Dangerous Tides
    Author

    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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    • 4/5
      This one doesn't have as much action as the prior books in this series, but the tension is higher. It's eerie and suspenseful. I enjoyed the main characters, the hero so nerdy and fully absorbed in his work, he has zero social graces. He also blunt to a fault. When nervous he spouts obscure trivia. The heroin, is mild mannered and unable to bear leaving anyone in emotional or physical pain. They were both so shy that they had crushes on each other for years. There's no shortage of suspects and the resolution is sad, but of course they get an HEA at the end. I really enjoyed this book. Recommend for over 18 due to detailed love scenes, which I enjoy. Happy reading.

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    • 5/5
      After having read the "Oceans of Fire", which was about Abigail Drake I thought this book on her sister was a so-much better book in the series and out of the books I have read of the Drake sisters it is my opinion one of the best. Instead of actually having a guy who totally believes in this family's skills of magic you have a non-believer who is also a workaholic that is struggling to fix his broken emotions while adjusting them to a world that he can never imagine. And as if the couple didn't have enough troubles to deal with you find that the poor creatures are being attacked on many surfaces. "Dangerous Tides" was definitely an adventure-thriller type of mystery/romance altogether. It covers the romance almost too well while immersing you even further into the Drake family with their interesting men. It has enough action to keep you flipping the pages.
    • 5/5
      If only we could all find a man like Tyson...sigh.
    • 3/5
      This is one of my least favorites in the series. Ty drove me absolutely insane. I have no idea why Libby liked him so much.

      Plus, this is the book I call The Great Editing Fail Book. There are so many little inconsistencies and mistakes I wanted to pull my hair out.

      I do love the interaction between the sisters, though.
    • 1/5
      This is one of those times when I wonder to myself whether the publisher read the same book I read. Maybe there was some devious plot afoot with two stories being switched at printing, and I just got unlucky enough to get the hideous, annoying, barely literate story instead of the beautiful, interesting and readable one. I actually have doubts as to whether editors have even heard of this book. If so, the ones responsible for giving it their stamp of approval should be fired, and probably slapped. MY inner editor was whimpering in frustration and curled up in a fetal position waiting for the pain to stop while I read this.

      I'd never read Feehan before, but her Carpathians series has been recommended to me quite a few times as "Must Reads". After reading this book, which, by the way, was published in 2006, a full SEVEN YEARS after her first book, I'm thinking that's probably not gonna happen. This was just bad in so many ways, and if her writing is this bad after having so many other books published before it, I am afraid to even contemplate the writing in her early books. The fact that these books made bestseller lists, (yes PLURAL lists), baffles me and I actually feel a little nauseous thinking about it.

      I'm not sure where to start here, so I guess I'll just list the things that annoyed me. Brace yourselves. This isn't going to be pretty.

      Annoyance the First Holy crap, has Feehan ever held a real conversation with anyone? Or at least HEARD one? I'm not sure. The dialogue in this book was so bad, so painfully, awkwardly, uncomfortably bad, that I had to read sections of it two or three times before I believed that it made it into a published book. I've seen kindergarten drawings with better dialogue.
      Take this example:
      "Yes. I know him and this just doesn't sound at all like him. Whoever this John Sandoval is, he isn't associated with Ed. I'll call Ed and let him know what's going on," Ty said.
      "I hope you're right," Libby replied. She turned her attention to Mason Fredrickson, a man her older sisters had gone through school with. "Thank you, Mason. It was courageous of you to back Jackson."
      "I was having dinner with Sylvia and she realized you were in trouble. She could tell by your expression. I'm reserve with the sheriff and so is Mike Dangerfield, so we just kept an eye on things. I'll catch you all later." {Mason} sauntered across the room back to the small intimate table in a darker corner of the restaurant.

      Ok... Problems:
      1. Libby sounds like she's talking to a 5 year old who just got a tetanus shot and is telling them what a brave little boy or girl they are and just as soon as they get home they're going to get some ice cream. Adults don't talk like that to each other, especially not adults who have known each other for any length of time.
      2. Mason's speech sounds like it was rehearsed in front of a mirror and then he still had to rely on cue cards to remember all those details that have absolutely NOTHING to do with the scene OR the story. A short and to the point "Sylvia noticed you looked like you could use some help," would have sufficed and been much more natural and fitting.
      3. Who is Mike Dangerfield? He's not in the scene, and this is the only time he's mentioned in the entire book. I kept waiting for him to pop back up like a sly "gotcha!" reference, but no.
      I know that this is part of a series, but Feehan's own website says that these are stand-alone books. So... unless I'm missing something, I can't see the point in mentioning Mr. Dangerfield at all if he has no part in the story.
      4. SAUNTERED?!? Walked, jogged, moved, made his way, returned, strolled... Any of these would be a better, less effeminate choice to describe the exit of a character we are supposed to assume is at least marginally bad-ass, considering that he is a reserve with the sheriff's office and just came to help get rid of troublesome armed men. Sauntered makes him sound like a pansy.

      All of that in just one section of dialogue, not even half a page... Imagine that for 353 1/2 more pages.

      A huge issue throughout this book is that rather than putting in a expository paragraph, Feehan tries to jam all of a character's history into their dialogue, which comes out sounding like something Data from Star Trek TNG would say... only less human-like.

      Annoyance the Second I guess this should technically be 1 1/2, but who's counting? This issue is with Libby... She's a doctor who also has a magical ability to heal people. Depending on the severity of the injuries or illness, she can either give someone energy from her own, or take on their injury in order to heal them. She is drawn to do this... She feels a kind of gravitational pull toward people who need her help. So when she finds Ty injured and near death, she... wait for it... Stops to talk to a nurse about his life history and how he came to be in the area and how he got hurt. She doesn't talk about his injuries, or his vital signs, or his prognosis, but the fact that he went to school with her, that he is brilliant, that his mind can do so much good in the biotech field, that he won the Nobel, that he is an adrenaline junkie... THIS is what she talks about while she can feel "the life ebbing away from him". Yes, those are the words used.
      In what world is this scenario natural? What kind of doctor, aside from an utter quack, would shoot the shit with a nurse rehashing this meaningless trivia rather than helping someone stay alive?

      Annoyance the Third. Repetition. Repetition. Repetition. ...Repetition. ...Repe-- you get the idea.
      There is no substitute for good characterizations and believable characters. None. Yet Feehan seems to think that recycling scenes and reiterating character traits is plenty good enough. Every time Libby was home, there was some sort of heart-to-heart with her sisters where rivers of tea were served, and mountains of cookies floated through the air. (Apparently, this is the only food they ever ate. There is one mention of canned soup being made, but no evidence of it being consumed. I have my doubts.)
      Conversations were lengthy and abundant, but there was never anything new said... No matter what, it always came back to the same topics, over and over and over.
      Descriptions of actions were just as repetitive. Kissing means Ty's mouth "took possession" of Libby's. Violence is someone beating someone else into a "bloody pulp", Libby's description of Ty is always that he's "brilliant"...
      It's enough to make a girl want to buy stock in thesauri.

      Annoyance the Fourth Details. Between Joe Fields/Fielding/Fields/Fielding/Fields/Fielding I kind of got the impression that this hadn't been proofread all that thoroughly. In fact, I'm beginning to wonder if it's not a PNR author requirement to get at least one character's name wrong in the course of a book/series. Looking at you, Charlaine Harris.
      There were so many little detail quirks and errors, and ridiculous situations, that I literally had to stop keeping track. From Ty being released from the hospital with a range of extremely painful injuries (including a broken sternum, broken ribs, torn cartilage and muscles) in less than a week, to someone knowing how many bullets had hit someone else before the paramedics actually even looked at the victim, despite the barrage of bullets fired, it just all seemed a bit much to me.
      And then there's the fact that someone living in a coastal city outside of San Francisco, presumably not cheap, could say that they'd never seen $5,000 before, and that it's "So much money!". $5,000 is nothing to shake a stick at, but it's certainly not a life-changing amount of money. $50,000 and I could see that reaction. And before you go thinking it's just a typo, let me clarify, it was typed out: five thousand dollars.

      Annoyance the Fifth Ty is a biochemist, working on a drug that he thinks has the potential to cure cancer. The problem is that the side-effects in teens causes severe depression and suicidal tendencies, so it's not nearly ready, but BigPharma wants it to go to testing to be put on the market. There's a lot of tension around this storyline, complete with death threats... yet this part of the story is never resolved or finished at all. The main story is wrapped up all shiny with a silver bow, but this side story is never mentioned again once the main story comes to a head. So... basically it's just a really lengthy plot device with a special bonus of being a hot topic issue to opine about.

      Annoyance the Sixth I figured out the killer about halfway through. I. HATE. THAT. The clues were there, practically with neon signs blinking "Super Devious Murderer This Way". They could probably have been seen from space.

      The sex was decent... It was at least fairly detailed and descriptive, although I think Feehan is paid by the number of times certain words were used. Those specific words being "shaft" and "sac".

      All in all... I was not at all impressed by this book. Not at all.
    • 5/5
      I am not sure why I have such a hard time remembering that this is Libby's story. Libby is one of my favorite Drake sister. She want so much to be like Joely and she just doesn't do the bad girl very well. I also like Tyson very much. He can be a little forgetful but once he decides to make the effort to remember for Libby's sake he does get a little better. Dangerous Tides is the first story to make me cry. The end where Libby and Tyson find out who has been trying to kill them just about tore my heart out of chest. Ms. Feehan does a good job of keeping the identity of the kill a mystery up until the every end. We also get to see a little of Jackson and the relationship that seems to be forming between him and Elle. Jonas doesn't play much a part in this story. I can say why because it is part of the mystery. I continue to love this series and I look forward to starting the next book.
    • 4/5
      While I think Libby is probably the least interesting sister this book did a good job of pairing her with someone that made her fun to read! It was a fun read and there were times that Christine did an excellent job of making you as frustrated with Ty as Libby was. It was obvious who the bad guy was pretty much from the beginning but other than that the book was very good. Next up is the book in the series I am most looking forward too (actually the last 3 have the guys/gals I am most interested in reading)
    • 4/5
      Dr Libby Drake is sensible and practical, she's a doctor with some magical healing powers. A tragic accident brings Ty Derrick too her door. The two of them are quite attracted to each other but theres someone hunting Either one or both of them.I much prefer this series to her Dark series, I like the Drake sisters and their powers and the fact that they all have some weaknesses. Enjoyable fluff.
    • 5/5
      Dangerous Tides is book four in Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters series. The story revolves around Libby Drake and Tyson Derrick.Libby is the confirmed "good girl" of the Drake family. Her power lies in healing others, and she has spent her professional life as Dr. Libby Drake, traveling the world with Doctors Beyond Borders, trying to help those in need. Tyson Derrick is a brilliant biochemist working for pharmaceutical company BioLab. Spending most of his life in a lab, Ty spends his vacation time as a rescuer with the forestry service, using the adrenaline rush to feel alive.Libby and Ty were rivals in college. The two most brilliant minds on campus, they often crossed paths, most of the time leaving Libby in tears after Ty said something insensitive to her. Ty has always believed that Libby's family are a bunch of con artists, using slight of hand to defraud the residents of Sea Haven. He believes that he can make Libby see the truth if he can just get her away from her sisters. Despite their history, Libby cannot resist the call to heal Ty after he suffers a deadly fall. Using magic to heal is always dangerous, and it takes a physical toll on Libby, nearly killing her. When Ty realizes that the power of the Drake sisters is authentic, he finds withing Libby's family the acceptance he has always craved. But of course, it can't be that easy - someone is trying to kill Libby and Ty, and it will take all the Drake sisters and their friends combined to make them safe again.For the first 100 pages or so, I really didn't enjoy this book. Ty and his cousin Sam were so obstinate about the Drakes, and their persistence in believing the sisters were charlatans was really annoying! But once the sisters essentially "proved" themselves to him, the book got better. I can't say it was my favorite of the series so far, but it was still good. Libby was a great heroine, but I never really forgave Ty for his initial prejudice. He was incredibly critical of Libby and her family in the beginning, and I just plain didn't like him. I was never able to "fall" for Ty like I have for the past heroes in the series. Like the other books in the Drake Sisters series, Dangerous Tides was full of action: rescue attempts, shootings, car chases, etc. The story was intriguing, full of mystery and suspense. Unfortunately for me, it lacked a little bit of the magic from the other books in the series. Over all, Dangerous Tides was entertaining, but didn't live up to the rest of the series. I wish I could have given it 3.5 stars, but GoodReads doesn't have that capibility yet.
    • 5/5
      This Series is bout a family of magical sisters and the family ledged that all seven have powers, the first 6 each have a different power and the seventh has all six. This book is about Libby, sensible and practical. She is a doctor by trade and her magic power is healing. She helps anyone any way she can. She falls in love with Ty, a biochemist that moves in with a cousin after his aunt dies and leaves him half of everything she owned.
    • 3/5
      Powerful healer Libby Drake meets her intellectual match in Ty Derrick, whose life she saves after a horrific fall. He, of course, is drawn to her, but their 'romance' is troubled by an admirer of Libby's. Again, the romance is getting a little too treacly for me. I'm pretty much reading the books to get more about Hannah's and Joley's romances.
    • 2/5
      I'm not sure how I feel about this. It wasn't bad, but I couldn't tell if it's meant to be part of a series (there are 3 other books about other Drake sisters) or if it's meant to be standalone. I felt like I was missing too much backstory. I didn't dislike it, but something didn't rub me completely right about it either. And one of the major plot lines was left completely unresolved. I just wasn't that taken with the Drake sisters as a whole. I wouldn't rule out trying another book/series by this author, but I don't think I'll bother with anymore Drake sister books.
    • 5/5
      This is the fourth story in Feehan's Drake Sisters series about a family of seven sisters, each with a different inherited magical power.Dr. Libby Drake is the good girl of the family, and, in keeping with her non-magical profession, her magical talent is healing.She's had a long-standing crush on Tyson Derrick, a genius research scientist who balances his hours in the lab with extreme sports and volunteering on a search-and-rescue team.Granted, at first glance Ty seems to be a typical romance-novel, too-good-to-be-true hero, and he is, but he's also well-developed and his unusual combination of occupations is well-explained. The physical things make him feel alive, and the adrenaline rushes fill the gaps left by a lack of emotional connection to other people.He's begun realizing this, though, so he's been trying to date, and to be closer to his cousin, with whom he lives 3 months of the year. Unfortunately, it seems that he has to change to have an emotional life, because other people get bored with his conversation, and resent the time he spends in his lab.Until Libby, who, amazingly, is interested in what he has to say, and likes hanging out in the lab with him.Boring others is the least of his problems, though. It seems that someone is trying to kill him. His rescue harness is sabotaged, and the resultant fall is nearly fatal. It would have been fatal if Libby hadn't felt a strong compulsion to risk her own life by healing him.As a scientist, Ty can't accept the existence of magic, but he likes and respects Libby, so he can't believe she's a fraud, either. So he decides her family must have brainwashed her into believing she can heal people by magic. The closer he gets to her, the more determined he becomes to save her from their machinations.The scene where the sisters set him straight is by itself worth the price of the book.One of the problems I've found with books in this sub-genre is the ease with which vanilla humans accept the paranormal. Granted, I wouldn't want to waste most of the book having the non-magical character questioning his/her sanity or spoiling the story by running off screaming, but there needs to be a middle ground between that and instant acceptance. I think Ty's character was very believable in that aspect. I especially liked that his reaction to his initial hypothesis that the Drakes were con artists was that Libby was unaware of the con and that he wanted to protect her. It was very sweet.And of course, I always like brainy characters, particularly in romance novels, where I don't find too many well-written ones. Ty and Libby are brainy, and Feehan still manages to make them realistic characters rather than stereotypes. Ty is rather socially inept, but not comically so, and it's as much due to his upbringing as to his brains. And, most importantly, neither one of them is lacking in logic or common sense.I did guess whodunit fairly early on in the story, but I liked Ty and Libby so much that I didn't really care.
    • 3/5
      Libby is the good girl of the 7 Drake sisters. She uses her powers to heal people but it takes a great toll on her own health. Someone has plans for Libby and it spells danger. Her sisters and the people close tho their lives come to protect her. But where does danger come from?I like it. Its a good book. Lots of teasing from the sisters. The characters are fun and exciting.
    • 4/5
      Another in the Drake sister's novels. It was one of the better ones if taken with a grain of salt. I always seem to have a hard time with the believability of hte characters and that was this book's main drawback.
    • 4/5
      I enjoy Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters series. The sisters are all lovely - if a bit perfect - and it's a nice break from the angst of the Carpathian books. Her heroes still tend to be alpha males, but they're not as totally annoying about it as the Carpathians are.There's a lot of wish fulfillment here; seven beautiful sisters with magical powers who love each other with a depth and strength most people can only dream about. But that's okay so long as you start the book with that awareness. It's a lovely fantasy that I enjoy visiting. My only complaint is that there is such a focus on the sisters that the fiances that were found in the earlier books barely seem to figure in each new book. Of course, there were three of them at the start of Dangerous Tides and now there are four, so I guess it would be character overload. All the same, it was good to see brief cameos from the men this time around.I like Ty. Despite his faults, he's another perfect hero - a genius scientist who is also, buffed, strong, handsome and brave. I don't care. This is a fantasy and it's a nice one. Besides, having my own share of social ineptness, it's nice to see that on the page. It was well done, especially the way Ty tended to spout out random facts when he couldn't face something emotional. And while he improved, it never disappeared completely, which I thought was good. I think he's my favourite of all the Drake sister fiances so far.I accidently spoiled myself to the identity of the villain, which I think affected the way I saw the character before the big revelation, so I'd be interested to hear if other readers picked it up from the hints dropped.If you're looking for a solid, realistic story, this isn't for you - but you probably didn't pick up a book about magic sisters if that's what you wanted. But as a perfect romantic fantasy, this pushed all my buttons. Sit back, go along for the ride and enjoy the Drakes. I did, and I'm looking forward to the next three books, especially as we're beginning to see just how much Hannah, Joley and Elle need to find someone to balance them and their gifts.