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Post by REDstar on Jul 6, 2007 1:17:26 GMT -5
Don't worry Earth you make perfect sense, and I agree, I can see MaryAnn getting offical duties due to her talent in guiding people who have gone through terrible things. One thing I like about the Dark Series is that all the lifemates find ways to combine their talents and hobbies into making life better for the Carpathian People. From Raven who maternal incisints and great party-planning skills helped make a party that brought all her people unified; to Shea who turned her healing skills to finding out the reasons for all the infant deaths; to Alex who's developing a videogame that will teach the future generations how to hunt without endangering their safety; and there's also Francesca who helping Shea and creating those protective stain glass windows, along with her healing quilts; and also, Natalya, who's finding ways to counterspell the Dark Mage's attacks. And there are many more who doing things just as important for their kin. They all show that with creativity and streagth we all make a difference in the world around us.
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Post by lightningblue on Jul 23, 2007 3:22:34 GMT -5
I agree that what Manolito did with MaryAnn was really the much lesser of many evils. In the end, all he was really doing was avoiding conflict, and for eveyone, not just himself. He bought himself more time, but he also spared the other Carpathians sworn to protect MaryAnn from having to chose between battling him and bowing to the right a male Carpathian has to claim his lifemate and save both of them from living a "half-life" as it is often put, or no life at all. It will always grate somewhat how little choice the women have and that it always feels like they have to be shown the hard way of the "error of their ways" or at least their thinking by their big man, but in the end most times they do turn it around on the men and give them a taste of their own medicine. I love the diversity that is coming in all of CF's books. In the 'Game' series, 2 of the ghost walkers are African-American, one is cajun, one irish, one is half-Japanese, half-Native American, and the women are from all over the world. Somebody help me out on something, becaues I am a little OCD when it comes to details, how do we know MaryAnn is African-American? I remember she if from Seattle, but how did I miss that? *slaps forehead* I do recommend the GhostWalkers if you need some reading material to get you through to August...lol. This book should also give us some more details about Solange and Jasmine since MaryAnn will hopefully get to counsel one, if not both of them. Maybe we will get a hint at who their lifemates will be... ;D "But at least I will have a good book to get for my birthday lol." When is your birthday? Mine is just a few days before the release date...
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Post by Earth Warrior on Jul 26, 2007 17:21:00 GMT -5
I agree, I really enjoy the diversity in these books now. Most authors that I read about seem too afraid to step over that "boundary," but I like how CF doesn't care. Marjorie M. Liu does that too. And I know where you're coming from...it hasn't been officially stated that MaryAnn is black, but she was described as having coffee-creme skin and black/dark brown wild curls. Plus, in the tags on Amazon.com, one of them says "interracial-romance" or something like that. And also, in Wild Rain the characters were Hispanic .
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Post by REDstar on Jul 26, 2007 20:34:06 GMT -5
Hey you know what would be another great race that one the lifemates could be: Native American. When first read how the Carpatians view the natural world and all of its inhabitants, both human and non-human, it reminded me alot of the views held by Native Tribes of the Americas. It would be intersting to see how a woman from a people who see the Earth as their Mother, and all of creatures worth protecting, get along with a species who share similar views of the world. Or perhaps one of her heroines should Asian or Asian-American. What do you all think?
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Post by lightningblue on Jul 26, 2007 21:27:43 GMT -5
She already has gone for the Native American and Asian ethnicities in GW, but I am hoping she also brings that to the Dark Series also, and totally ditto on the Native American v. Carpathian view.
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Post by Earth Warrior on Jul 27, 2007 15:55:03 GMT -5
Ditto for me, too. Which brings me to an idea that has been flitting through my head for a couple of months now: I'd like to see CF do a story with the Carpathians set in earlier times. For example, a Carpathian stumbles upon his lifemate in a Lakota (say, Blackfeet) tribe in the 17- or 1800's. And then in another book set in current time, we see them still together, a pair of lifemates that have been together for hundreds of years. Oooh, makes me want to do a fanfiction with that. Do we have fan fics here?
PS--I'd LOVE a Native American Carpathian man. Hey, she did it with the De La Cruz Brothers, right? Why not a Tobias TwoFeathers?
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Post by REDstar on Jul 28, 2007 21:13:29 GMT -5
Earth, if you want to write a fanfiction for your idea, you could submit it on www. fanfiction.net, because in their Book catogry they have one for Christine Feehan. I would gladly read it, because I'm on there almost every chance I get. Oh yeah, if you want a Dimitri/Skyler fanfic, check out "Dark Desperation", on Fanfiction.net. It's only two chapters so far, but I can tell it will be a great story. And sense we're on ;D what we like future characters in then Dark Series to be, I would like it if one of the women was a medium, or can talk with the spirites of the deceased. Wonder if she could contact Rhiannon, Sarantha, or Prince Vlad, to find out if they know how to defeat Razvan and Xavier? ;D ;D ;D ;D I just had a vision of the deceased Mama Daratrazanoff being contacted, and her telling Francesca, Jaxon, Savannah, and Tempest, some embrassing childhood stories about their lifemates! Haha I KNOW the boys would just love that! Hahahahaha!!!!
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Post by Earth Warrior on Jul 28, 2007 22:30:26 GMT -5
Wow, I haven't visited ff.net since 2003 when Tarzan was still a TV show on the WB. I'll have to check it out! I didn't know there was a Dark Series section, how awesome. Is it busy there?
And loving the idea of a medium ;D . I'd like to hear from the older Carpathians
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Post by REDstar on Jul 29, 2007 0:44:24 GMT -5
Fanfictions about the Dark Series can found in the Book Catogory, under Christine Feehan. I'll admit there are not alot of good ones so far, out of the thirty-six stories they have , but there are a few worth reading. And like you, I would love to have a medium as one of the Dark Women. I wonder could she defeat the Shadow Warrior, like Natalya, or defeat that possessed spirite that was inside that old lady in DC, since as a medium she could "free" the spirite and help it move on to the next plain of existance? And since I thought it would be intersting of some of the deceased Carpathians were contacted from the other side, which of them would you like to hear from, and what would you want them to tell you?
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misoka
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Post by misoka on May 15, 2008 17:12:05 GMT -5
hey guys can i goin in the conversation. i eed to talk to someone about how i totaly love Manolito. hes an awsome carpathian youst like Dimitri ^_^
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misoka
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Post by misoka on May 15, 2008 18:18:21 GMT -5
sorry that eed is sopoust to be NEEED! i guees i was tiping to fast^_^
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Post by lilybud202cr on Jan 24, 2009 19:38:34 GMT -5
Yeah its ok I agree that Monolito was avoiding conflict
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Post by darkenedangel on Jan 25, 2009 16:07:52 GMT -5
But a lot of males if they could would avoid conflict. Especially if it benefited themselves.
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Post by lilybud202cr on Jan 25, 2009 16:15:27 GMT -5
Yes that's true
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