5 Dark Angel StarsFirst read July 2012 Reread January 26, 2016Reread Feb 3, 2017reread 11/21/2020*Spoilers* "I am your lifemate, young one. You have no idea what that means, and you are not Carpathian, so I expect a certain amount of resistance from you." Lucian rubbed his chin over the top of her head. "I promise you I will be as gentle and as patient as I can, but I cannot wait long for you. The emotions I am feeling do not tame the wild beast within me."-LucianDark Guardian is the 9th book...

Lucian Daratrazanoff and Jaxx  “Your mind knows me. Your heart and soul recognize me." His thumb caressed the perfect line of her cheekbone tenderly just because he loved the feel of her skin beneath his. "I must bind us together, Jaxon, I have no other choice. It would be dangerous to wait. I am sorry that I cannot give you more time.” Lucian is one of the legendary Daratrazanoff twins, the darkest one. When his brother Gabriel found his lifemate, Lucian was finally ready to face the dawn an...

DNFI didn't like it. After 70% of the audiobook I couldn't keep listening. So boring, uninteresting and repetitive. The whole time, the story went around in circles with barely any evolution. The main characters are brainless and very simple minded. It was painful to me how Jaxx couldn't make a logical or rational decision. I have read several books of this series by now, and although I enjoyed the first ones back when I started reading romance, right now I have more experience and thus I have s...

One thing I love about these Carpathian books is they prove the adage: There is someone for everyone. Feehan sets the stage by showing Lucian as a young fledgling, seeing the devastation that his people face, and realizing his duty to his people. Then she shows Jaxon growing up and the beginning of a horrible obsession that her father's friend develops for her. Those parts were really shocking and I was surprised that Feehan didn't hesitate to show how truly crazy Drake was. My heart bled for po...

Caution there will be mild spoilers...and cursing - A LOT more than normal! Sweet baby Jesus I finally finished this fucking story! (I really wish I knew how to add pictures because I could express my feelings better!)Anyway, now I will explain my ridiculous statement above.This book was cruising along at a 3 star because the heroine was so annoying and I was bored silly with her antics. She never admitted to feelings for Lucian until the last 5-10%. She pushed him away and even went so far as t...

Did not care for this one. I didn't like the way the pov switched around. I didn't like that the millenia old European hero called the heroine "honey" even though he was European and really old. There was too much telling for my taste. I also didn't like that the tough as nails heroine almost cries because the hero is kind to a wolf. And I didn't like the parts that read along the lines of "The wedding really was like a fairy tale" or "She realized she trusted him completely because he loved her...

Dark Guardian is the story of legendary Carpathian hunter Lucian and his lifemate Jaxon.I really liked this story. Jaxon (Jax for short) is a tough-as-nails, driven cop, and Lucian is the twin brother of Gabriel from book 8.I really enjoyed the human element in this book. The human predator that has stalked Jax her entire life long is a former Navy SEAL. He is well-trained and fixated on Jax, and has dispatched everyone close to her. His threat is very real and continues throughout the the entir...

This was the 3rd book I read in the series and after reading Gregori’s and Julian’s stories, this was a MAJOR disappointment. I can safely conclude that this series is going down the drain, because this was seriously shoddy work.Having heard about the legendary hunter Lucian, with this amazing hero status as being one of the two most powerful Carpathian males, I was expecting so much. And boy did my expectations get shot all to crap. His lifemate is a human, which I still don’t understand how/wh...

<< Lucian Daratrazanoff, France, Present Day Lucian threatens Francesca, Gabriel's lifemate. Gabriel strikes a deadly injury. At the time of the attack, he realizes Lucian is not a vampire. When Lucian's powers weaken, Gabriel rushes to close the wound he inflicted on his brother. Francesca tells Lucian he has a lifemate. She tells him he must find his lifemate and remove her from danger. << Jaxon Montgomery, Present Day Jaxon and her partner, Barry Radcliff, are police officers. They are on a

"Dark Guardian" is the story of Lucian and Jackson.Lucian is the twin of Gabriel, who we learned from the last book is not yet a vampire and is actively looking for his lifemate, his redemption.He finds it in Jaxon, the police officer with a tragic past and a psychotic step father, who puts everyone near her in danger.From there it follows the regular Carpathian path of mating, conflicts, bad guys, realizations, love and HFNs.I was quite excited to get a kickass strong heroine,fearing it will go...

4.5-5 starsThis was a great story and addition to the series. I liked both Jaxon and Lucian very much and enjoyed seeing them become a couple as well as partners.Jaxon was born to a father that was special forces and he taught her those skills from a very young (almost as soon as she could walk) age. She took to it naturally and liked training better than anything else. Jaxon's father was killed early in her life and she lost the rest of her family and then her foster family. All this was becaus...

The power that Lucian Daratrazanoff could wield was immense, but the power he came by naturally did not help him find the one thing that could make is existence more tolerable. Finding a lifemate was not the difficult part of his newest challenge, it was to convince a human women to become a part of a new existence. Running most of her life from a monster, Jaxon Montgomery was not prepared to find out just what kind of evil creatures really were a part of her world, she had the street smart and

Love Carpathians :)amazing how they can shape shift & almost seem invincible at times.

It's important to read Dark Legend before reading this book, as this one is about Lucian and follows on more or less directly from the previous book.Lucian's only reason for staying alive is Francesca's assurance that his lifemate exists in the world and needs him. He spends the next couple of years looking for her and finds her in America (surprise surprise), a police officer called Jaxson with a tragic past: her family was all murdered by her father's best friend, Tyler Drake, a fellow SEAL wh...

Dark Guardian is my least favorite of the Dark series, which overall is quite good. Most of my GR friends rated this as 4 or 5 stars, so keep that in mind. I just did not feel a lot of chemistry between Jaxon and Lucian. The plot was tremendously slow getting off the ground. The first time that I attempted the book (>1 year ago) I stopped at about 50%, a point at which Jaxon was still denying that Lucian could possibly have supernatural abilities or that she could be his lifemate—even though she...

Old world? Yet kept calling her honey on every other page?!I shouldn't have re-read this book. It pissed me off. The heroine's name alone was jarring and irritating - almost like she was deliberately given a masculine name to offset the ridiculously stupid abuse Feehan subjected her to.I don't know where to begin with Lucian. It is almost like she wiped the slate clean with his character from Book 8. She completely made him modern but wanted to feel old fashioned by merely using the words "old w...

Loved Lucian's story! He deserved some happiness. This was a great read!!

Book 9. Online library MP3 download to my cellphone. This book is Part 2 (after Book 8) and involves the other twin, Lucian Daratrazanoff (brother of Gabriel). I really liked this one! Of course that means a more complicated plot, character development and of course, moral dilemmas! Lucian and Jaxon Montgomery are the main characters. Jaxon is haunted by a sick and abusive stepfather who has killed everyone close to Jaxon. Lucian has had to convince his twin that he had 'turned.' It was all a ru...