Books Turbulent Sea (Drake Sisters, Book 6)
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Rating: - SNAPS
******Warning may be some spoilers*****

I was dying for this book...I was checking so often to make sure I did not miss the release date. Joley next to Abigail's story was by far the most highly anticipated one on my part. I hate saying this, because I love Feehan's writing, but it was not what I expected and a bit disappointing. It was missing something...I wanted the joley who proclaimed to be a black belt, who confronts a perverted reverand on live TV, and someone who is loyal and dedicated enough to go the extreme dangerous mile to maybe help and investigate the people in distress in the book.

The drake series is my favorite---having many sisters of my own I can try to relate---and it involves smart, strong, women who find smart, strong, men who accpet their magickal side and are greta in bed as they should be ;)

So back to Joley's story, there was some good action on both the sensual and danger side. But I wanted more depth from Ilya more background---yeah we get he was trained young and he was sapped of emotion in order to survive that is not new---this book had me thinking of dark series as soon as I read a couple chapters---which is ok for the dark series---BUT---NOT great when is comes to drake series.

I was really hoping that feehan would delve into elle's story but I think I could live with it so long as Elle's story picks up from when she suddenly vanishes and everyone is searching for her.

So to conclude this looooong spiel---joley's story: a bit of a let down but I bought it and have read it 3 times so far so what can I say oh yeah--- ELLE'S STORY BETTER BE LONGER AND MORE ACTION PACKED cus it is the most important of the drake stories although I wouldn't mind continueing the saga with Ilya and Joley's 7 sons!!!! WOOT love that twist!

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Rating: - Intense!
Enjoyed the book immensely! In true Christine Feehan fashion, each chapter ends with you dying to get to the next chapter to see what happens.

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Rating: - Hanon Exercise Rather Than Chopin
Even though Ilya is one of my favorite secondary characters, I was disappointed in this book.

I found the musical analogies forced and discordant, to the point I started skimming the description until I reached dialogue. I don't mind when an author has their character see, taste, smell, or feel music--if it's done well.

In her Dark series, Feehan has been sucussful using music as an additional or enhanced "sense"--particularly in "Dark Symphony" (Byron and Antonietta's book) and with her Dark Troubador characters.

Part of my disappointment occurred because I had just reread Marjorie Liu's "Soul Song" and her Hunter Kiss series where the author is extremely successful using music as an enhanced sense.

I started the book expecting Chopin (or at least Scott Joplin) and ended up with Hanon.

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Rating: - Ouch, not really that great, except for one thing.
I have never written a book review on Amazon before but this book compelled me to send one in. Be warned that there are some spoilers for the story in this post so if you want to be totally surprised skip this review.

I've been reading Christine Feehan for a long time and I keep wondering if her writing skills will improve at all. Apparently the answer is no. This book could have been half it's size and done the job it needed to do. How many times does the reader need to know Joley doesn't allow underage girls at her parties, or that the band "family" was destroyed by drugs and alcohol.. oh yeah and loose women? Apparently the answer is many, many times.

I've read every book that this author has written, and I can't honestly say if I'll buy another one. Not only were things repeated over and over and over, but the characters felt fake to me. All the members of the band, even Joley and Ilya themselves don't feel true to the characters we were introduced to in previous books. I mean Ilya goes from being raised in a severly abusive environment to all the sudden being able to love Joley with all his heart? That just doesn't ring true to life, and I know that this is a romance but hopefully some of real life is in a book.

One good thing that Feehan does do is handle the relationship between Brian and Nikitan very well. She doesn't preach about it being bad or good, she just simply shows love between two characters that happen to be male. Kudos to her for dealing with this with sensitivity and grace. It's the only reason this review got 2 stars instead of just one.

To all the Feehan fans out there, please go read some Sherrilyn Kenyon or J.R. Ward if you want good, well written paranormal romance. To Mrs. Feehan, please take a basic workshop in writing a fiction story, even though you are published you could be such an awesome writer if you just change a few things.