Feehan, Christine. Dark Desire. New York: Leisure Book, 2006.
Ok, yeah. *hangs head in shame* They are really hard to put down. This is the second in the Carpathians Dark Series. It's pretty much what you'd expect. You know...lonely vampire meets lonely disaffected doctor with a rare blood disease. Sparks will fly and all that.
However, aside from it being a romance novel, Feehan pulled off something interesting. Her leading man, Jacque, spends over half the book being unsympathetic. There are plenty of reasons for him to be unsympathetic, but usually if the main romantic lead is unsympathetic, the book flops regardless of good reasons. It's just a truism of this kind of fiction that there has to be something approchable to the male lead or the romance reader will put it down.
I think it helps that Feehan introduced Jacques in the previous book and he came across as the good natured puppy dog type. I don't know exactly how it works yet, but....
Bravo, Ms. Feehan.
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