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| Safe Harbor (Drake Sisters, Book 5) | 
 enlarge | Author: Christine Feehan
Publisher: Jove
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 6014
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0515143189
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780515143188
ASIN: 0515143189
Publication Date: June 26, 2007
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Product Description
Feehan kicks off episode five of her popular Drake Sisters series -- concerning a septet of paranormally gifted sibs -- with everything her fans have come to expect: action, gunplay, danger, bad guys, good guys, gorgeous women and magic. All that's missing are her spicy love scenes; those come later, and their promise is enough to keep pages turning. On top of that promise, however, is the intriguing mystery of the supermodel slasher, who attacks shy-but-smoldering Hannah, one of the sisters, at New York's annual Fashion Week. Hunky Sheriff Jonas Harrington, a longtime family friend, is fresh from a life-threatening encounter with the Russian mob when he witnesses, on live TV, Hannah getting cut down by a madman with a knife. After the sisters rush to her side, saving her with their combined powers, Jonas vows to hunt down the assailant--but his unrequited love for Hannah complicates matters. This winning series entry is sure to please devotees and shouldn't provide much difficulty for curious newbies.
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 Finally Hannah and Jonas Story June 28, 2007
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
I have waited for this book while we learned the stories of the first four sisters and this one is everything that I hoped it would be. Better than most of the others it is truly not just a romance but a tale of strengh, hope, and mystery.
Hannah is the #1 model in the world, not because she has ever wanted to be a model, but because she has felt the need to find something she does as well as the other sisters.
Jonas Harrington is not just sheriff of her hometown he has been in covert operations for our government until he became so burned out he came home to the Drakes. They are his family and have been since he was a child. He and Jackson have accepted one more small assignment that goes very wrong.
This time when he finally gets home he tells Hannah his feelings and she opens her heart and body to him. At the next fashion show she is attacked. He is totally wiped out by the attack on Hannah. He immediatly sets out to find who tried to kill her, the list is long and another attack on her happens at the hospital. Knowing there is a physcopath out there after her he is in full protective mode.
I very much enjoyed this book and could hardly put it down when I had too. The action is continuous and the interaction with the sisters is wonderful. You know there will be two more books, and I can hardly wait. Christine Feehan has grown as an author and her skills as a writer are improving with each of the novels in the Drake Sister and Ghostwalker series.
 Summarize June 29, 2007
16 out of 23 found this review helpful
Let's keep this simple:
Plot - Entirely too many things thrown in for a single book. Too many villians, too many subplots. I could follow the ideas, but got to the point where I really didn't care WHO did it. They were all terrible enemies, just pick one.
House - What's up with this? At the beginning of the Drake Sisters stories, we had 7 magical women, who had slight magic and telepathy, with a house who knew who their mates were. Now, we have a powerful killer house with 7 women who can do just about anything God can do. Talk about growing in strength. Geez.
Jonas - I liked him and his side of the story, but his character had changed from previous Drake books. He struck me as someone else. He was fine, but different, and for me it caused some jarring moments in the reading.
Hannah - Please. Whine, get better, whine, get better, whine....
Side characters - Excellent. Actually the side characters made the story worthwhile and did a great job of setting up the final two books in the Drake sisters story.
Bottom line - This was a good story that held my interest. It definitely wasn't a 5 star read, because the moment I finished the book, I tossed it in the garbage. However, it is worth the money, and it is good for a couple of days of reading.
Hannah and Jonas' exciting and touching story at last! June 26, 2007
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
As I've been reading the Drake sisters books, I've been amused and puzzled by the interaction between Jonas Harrington, long-time Drake family friend, and Hannah, super beautiful, super model. Sometimes there was antagonism, sometimes sentiment and sometimes sparks. This book puts it all together and gives us the inside story in a way we might not have imagined!
The story begins with Jonas and Jackson Deveau out on a special covert assignment for the defense department that goes south. Jonas has been shot and they are trying to escape the Russian mob led by the Tarasov family. Joans mentally calls on Hannah to help them as they are trapped in an alleyway with no way out but up. Hannah calls wind, rain and is successfully in helping Jonas and Jackson escape although Jonas passes out. He comes to in a nearby ER with a doctor stitching his wounds and Jackson coming in to tell him the mob has sent more people after them and the film they made so they need to leave out the window and draw them away from the innocent people in the hospital. They leave in a hurry, call their supervisor, Duncan for help, and then need to hide out for a few days.
Hannah meanwhile is furious when she recovers from her magical efforts to save Jonas that a)he was endangering his life again when still recovering from a nearly mortal wound of a few weeks ago (read prior book "Dangerous Tides") and b) that Jonas never called to let her know he is okay or not. When Jonas finally does come to see Hannah, the sparks really do fly!!
As Hannah's life is threatened and Jonas reveals his true feelings, I could not put this book down until I finished it!! A truly exciting and suspenseful as well as sentimental and romantic story. The reader also gets better acquainted with another intriguing character, Illya Prakenskii, who is magical like the Drakes.
I can't wait for the next installment!! Highly recommended as one of the best Drake books yet!!
Edit, Edit, Edit June 29, 2007
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
I was looking forward to--finally--getting Hannah and Jonas squared away. I liked the story and the character interaction was fine, but my goodness, did anybody edit this? There was a TREMENDOUS amount of repetition (not from previous books, but from repeating what had already been said, thought or discussed (IN GREAT DETAIL). And the thoughts and/or dialogue went ON and ON and ON. There is a lot of "author babble" that should have been removed to make this book flow and go. As it was, it stuttered and puttered for me. Was very boring at parts, page after page of sex scenes. Hey, I like some steam, but the operative word is SOME. EDIT, EDIT, EDIT. Finally, what a grammatical nightmare! One sentence that is 5 or more lines long! EGADS! "...the hunger, the need, the desire, the burning, intense...." GEEZE EDIT EDIT EDIT. P.s Could the print be any smaller??????? I had to put this book down MANY times because it just wore me flat out. What does it say about a book when you are 1/4 from the end and just want to get to the ending to move on? And, there was NO suspense whatsoever. I'm not going to spoil the plot, but come on, I saw right away where this was going and that's where it went.
 What's with this trend? June 28, 2007
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Hate to disagree with my fellow Texan in San Antonio, but I agree with Midwest and "Anonymous." This book would be a good one to check out from the library or to purchase at a garage sale or used bookstore. I, too, put the book down and didn't read it in one sitting, as I usually do books by Ms. Feehan, Nora Roberts, Diana Palmer, Jill Shalvis, Lisa Marie Rice and so on.
Jonas is NOT the slightly irritating yet lovable guy we've met in previous Drake Sister books. In fact, I wonder why it is a lot of romance authors have forgotten what constitutes real romance. A man who is mean-spirited, pushy, and using the f-word all the time or in his more charming moments (?) telling people "Go to hell or shut the hell up!," doesn't make the grade as far as I'm concerned.
Yes, the Harlequin hero from the golden age of romance was, and sometimes still is, a bit arrogant or slightly cruel to the heroine, but it's usually due to a misunderstanding. Stress and the alpha-male personality can create some tension between characters, but in Safe Harbor this was over the top.
We had already met Jonas in previous books and he was likable and protective in a sweet, almost older brother way to all the Drakes. In this book, he bore more than a passing resemblance to the brothers of the latest two "Game" books; I'm glad someone else noticed that or I might have questioned my memory. This book just abandoned or rewrote a lot of the history of the Drakes. We've met a family of strong, magical women and in this one they were portrayed as having a pointless, argumentative tug-of-war with Jonas over Hannah, i.e. protecting her from him.
The sisters previously have enjoyed scenes where they had normal interaction with one another: teasing, brewing tea or otherwise nurturing one another, or visiting neighbors. This was sorely missing in "Safe Harbor." Hannah, in previous books, has had the gumption to tease Jonas, "steal" his hats and stick up for her sisters. In this one, she was a shrinking violet to say the least, even in the first third of the story.
Jonas shares a link with Hannah, yet he didn't realize she would encounter some, shall we say, challenges in NYC? And he and Sarah couldn't send her some mental message over their common path? This made little to no sense to me. Anyone else get that?
I'm with the others: please DO NOT mess up the chemistry, budding relationship between Joley and Ilyia.
Hate to say it, but I'll be trading in this book for credit and I have kept ALL the Carpathian books and the "Mind" books. Oughta serve as a signal to the editors that there's a problem brewing for the Drakes and this time it's not from without, it's from within. (Cue ominous music :)
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