Dark Sentinel by Christine Feehan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

In an explosive novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, a human woman ignites the desire of her Carpathian lifemate–and of an ancient vampire with a score to settle.

After the devastating loss of her entire family, Lorraine Peters heads to the woods searching for peace of mind and anything to quell the anger in her soul. Instead, she stumbles upon a scene of horrific violence, as one man lies helpless in the face of three attackers. 

Andor Katona’s existence has been a harsh one, living for centuries as a monk in the Carpathian Mountains. Unable to find his lifemate, he almost welcomes his release from a colorless and unfeeling world at the hands of the vampire hunters who have mistaken him for their prey. That is, until a whirling ball of fury bursts onto the scene, determined to save him. 

In one glimpse, in one breath, Andor recognizes Lorraine as his lifemate, but it will take more than their telepathic connection to convince her of their immortal bond. Lorraine is a lethal combination of cunning and courage. So much so that she captures the attention of a master vampire, one who has already lost what was once irreplaceable to him. One who will strike with deadly precision at Andor and his ancient Carpathian comrades in a war to end all wars. . .

Dark Sentinel

Carpathian’s vs. Vampires!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: 😭☺️😊
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Solo Narration

The Hero: Andor Katona – he is an immortal from the Carpathian Mountains and has lived long past the time when his race no longer sees color and his emotions have been turned off. He knows that finding his life mate will bring back those things but has spent centuries traveling the globe to find that one special person and he has lost hope of ever finding her. He has spent time in the monastery in the mountains of his birth and now only travels to hunt vampires (those of his race that have lost their soul and given in to urge to feed on and kill humans), they get a high from the fear and adrenaline in the blood.

The heroine: Lorraine Peters – she grew up with strict but loving parents who raised their children with a strong martial arts background. Lorraine has known how to fight since she was young. Though one night she comes home to find that her brother, who was jacked up on steroids, has killed their parents before he then kills himself. Lorraine is left alone with a ton of unresolved anger that she doesn’t know what to do with. She takes off to the mountains to go camping and give herself a little solo yoga retreat to try getting her anger under control and getting some zen back into her life.

The story: Andor was hunting in the United States and had just taken down a bunch of vampires when he is suddenly attacked by three human vampire hunters who are not too bright and obviously don’t know the difference between a Carpathian and a vampire. They get the drop on him and put a stake through his chest, missing his heart, though between that and the other injuries from the fight with seven vampires, he is losing a lot of blood really fast and is deciding whether he should just give up and die or try to fight.

Lorraine has some psychic abilities and can hear Andor’s thoughts and is angry that he is thinking about giving up. She heard the attack, and she comes into the clearing and starts attacking the three men, telling them they are crazy if they think vampires are real and they are basically killing a man for no reason. Andor knows at once that Lorraine is his fated mate, though he is still bleeding out.

I have read a few books from this series in the past and I really like it, the books have some great action, and I can never get sick of the moment the Carpathians tell the human women that yes, they are immortal, and they drink blood. This book has a great storyline with a master vampire after Lorraine.The master vampire, Sergio has the memories of a mage inside him, so not only can he do everything a master vampire can do, like seeing through the eyes of animals, but he has all the spells of the mage that he can use as well.

This audiobook was narrated in dual points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Jim Frangione. I like Jim’s narration quite a bit. I will very rarely listen to solo narration and even then, only when I really like the narrator. I had listened to Jim Frangione narrate many of Lyndsay Sands Aregeneau series and loved that one. It isn’t all that different from Christine Feehan’s Dark series, so I figured I would get back into this series since it has been a while.

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