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| Turbulent Sea (Drake Sisters, Book 6) | 
 enlarge | Author: Christine Feehan
Publisher: Jove
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  84 reviews
Sales Rank: 4140
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1
ISBN: 0515145068
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780515145069
ASIN: 0515145068
Publication Date: July 29, 2008
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 The Weakest book in the Series August 6, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the sixth story in the Drake Sisters series (one more to come) and it was not Ms. Feehan's best effort. Joley had all this angst about always picking losers and being a bad person with oblique references to perhaps being a bit BDSM but not actually saying it. Her relationship with the band was not believable to me as well. Ilya was much more interesting than Joley and her character was a bit of a disppointment. Hannah and Joley seem to be missing the Drake girl's backbone. That being said, I would buy it again in a minute to keep up to date with the Drake sisters.
 Turbulent Seas Worth the Wait July 30, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
[Spoiler Alert] I read this book in one night. It was great. Totally what I have been waiting for. I loved the byplay between Ilya and Joley, how both of them need to learn to trust and learn to love. You really see why they were meant to be together in the end when Joley agrees to marry him. That was the scene when it all came together for me. The only thing I did not like was the unlike all the other Drake Sister books, the rest of the sisters also play a roll. Not in this book, they don't come into until the end. But there is a reason for that Joley and Ilya's story needed to be told in the world of music and focus on her music life and wrap up the puzzle of Sergi Nitikin. What's more you learn why Joley needs Ilya and why Ilya needs Joley.
It was a great book and I highly recomend it.
dark and moody August 1, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I don't do reviews often, I don't feel comfortable doing so. However, I wanted to put in my two cents.
I was waiting on pins and needles for this book, and I was not disapointed, for the most part.
My review may be more in answering how I see the relationship between all the sisters and also Jolie with Illya.
Having read other reviews, I can agree I would have liked and believed the other sisters should have been more in the book. And I would have liked to see the book set up for Ellie's and Jackson's story. My suspicion is Ellie is somehow working on exposing RJ for the evil person he is.
As for Jolie and Illya, I could see where she felt separate from her sisters. When you look at them, Katie doesn't have a mean bone in her body--her gift is totally giving. Abby has a temper, yes, but she also is giving and more important, she is willing to forvie others; Libby and Hannah, they both place others ahead of themselves although differently, Libby as a doctor and Hannah due to her nurturing (not because she is female), which is just her makeup.
Jolie, she is fire--she get mad easily and she has a hard time forgiving. She can hold a grudge and lashes out and doesn't feel guilty, generally, over it.
What causes her to feel she is different and can't share that with her sisters is she believes if her sister's truly knew those aspects about her they wouldn't love her. Illya however, has experienced all the darkness and he can see past her "darkness", Jolie has seen goodness, she doesn't realize her "bad" parts are not nearly as bad as she perceives them. Illya needed a fiesty mate, someone who will stand up to him and Jolie will, but he needed someone who can bring light, and Jolie does have light, she just can't see it because her sisters light seem to overshine her's. Jolie needs someone who can control her and not see her "darkness" in a negative manner and help her in accepting that part of herself, Illya can do that. (sheesh, I seeming to make this like the Dark series, light to darkness).
As for the story, the beginning did seem to drag a little slow. But the rest is well worth it. The subplot with Brian and Sergi, that was a total shock to me and I loved where C.F. threw everyone for a loop in that aspect.
Illya's seeming to be milder than what he was in Hannah's story is due to the fact he had time after he met the family for the gentle side of him to grow. And he had to appear dark looking at the type of job he was doing. The "niceness" of him was shown several times, protecting the hostage, his wife, Abby at the beginning when she was in the house, and there to help at the end. He did keep the dark side visible to others, but to Jolie, he showed the gentle side of himself.
Why four stars? There is always room for improvement in any books, my main reasons: it did start a little slow; there should have been more of the other sisters and there should have been a setup, even if just a tad bit, of Ellie and Jackson, althogh the stating she was undercover did somewhat.
I have read it twice now, first to find out what happens, the second time to examine it, pros and cons of it. There are definitely more pros than cons.
JLY
Disappointed... August 1, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
The long awaited novel of Joley, the famous, fun loving, "bad girl" Drake sister and Ilya, the mysterious hit man bodyguard with magic of his own. Should be a real page-turner for Drake sister fans, right? Wrong. Add adjectives such as insecure and lacking confidence to describe Joley and domineering chauvinist to describe Ilya.
Perhaps I should wait to finish reading the entire novel, but it's a struggle to get through the first half. Reason being...slap the name Dark Sea or something like it on the cover and you could have another of Ms. Feehan's Carpathian novels.
I love the Drake Sisters and Ghost Walkers, but the Carpathian male leads are too over bearing for me. The whole "You're my light and sanity and trust that I know what's best for you," makes me cringe. No thank you. Ilya is to be Joley's partner not father. If you love the Carpathian series, this is a book for you.
Another letdown August 1, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I could hardly wait for Joley and Ilya's story. I read the Drake Sisters novels first, then reluctantly read the Carpathian series. Honestly, this book felt like a merger of the two series, and it didn't work for me.
One of the strengths of the Drake Sisters series is the interaction between the sisters. Unfortunately, that was largely absent in this book.
I know that Joley falls in love with Ilya because Feehan tells us so. I didn't "see" it, though. The entire Joley/Ilya relationship felt forced, and there was little character development. What exactly were Joley's "dark needs"? I knew from the other books that Ilya is an Alpha Male, but he was too borderline Carpathian for it to work for me in a Drake Sister novel.
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