Who is zacarias lifemate

Something went wrong with their lifemate relationship and she only restored his colors and emotions when he was mind merged with her. Which I'm going to be honest I didn't understand, but whatevs!!! Zacarias was ready to kill himself with honor, not that he has much honor that I've seen but again whatevs.

He was laying in the sun cooking to death when Marguarita seen him and pulled him from death because she was his lifemate and she couldn't just let him die although at the time neither understand that He of course couldn't do anything because he was weak from the sun so in her mind he threaten her the whole time she was dragging his dead weight ass into the house, gave him her blood and buried him in the healing soil of his people.

Now here is where I start to have my issues with Zacarias, he woke up that night and he was a total over the top dick that was tap dancing on the borderline of abusive.

He broke down her door grabbed her up, and bit her hard. Making it painful to teach her a lesson for her disobedience. You know Marguarita, the woman who had her throat ripped out and almost died by a vampire not even a few months ago. Now because it isn't real life and he was so close to turning I could have over looked that if that was the only time but the problem was he continued to be a prick all through the book.

You will not, under any circumstances, leave the hacienda without my permission. You will provide for all my needs until I leave. And most of all, you will obey me instantly, without question.

She fought not to roll her eyes. How long will you stay? God help her if it was longer than another night. His eyebrow shot up. You will be happy to serve me as long as I choose to be in residence. She shook her head violently and stepped back to look him in the eyes again. Don't do that. Don't ever do that. You are my choice, just the way you are. I am not asking for changes. I will do whatever you wish. That was at his best at his worst he was a totally cruel bastard.

If he was my lifemate I would have staked his ass through the heart in his sleep! Marguarita was very submissive. She pretty much accepted Zacarias's rule over her life and was okay with it. I could have been okay with that too as some people are truly more submissive in real life, my problem was more that she didn't really have a personality. She was kinda like a doormat that on occasion spoke.

Then even with her doing everything she could to please and obey Zacarias he still though her disobedient. Truly nothing pleased that man. There is no such thing as loving someone too much, Zacarias.

Whatever happened, I know it wasn't because they loved each other too much. I have told you I will obey you, but I cannot stop my heart from loving you. You can't ask that of me. He let her see the killer in him, that dark force that was more of his soul than any other part of him. I was glad that while she was turning she told him that he broke his lifemate vows of cherishing her and putting her happiness above his own.

You're exactly what you told me - a monster. And your binding words are a lie. You lied. They mean nothing. There is no care. Certainly nothing like cherish. Take your empty words and keep them. I don't want them. I get he "Learned his lesson" when she rejected him for like 5 minutes and suffered turning and wouldn't let him help her but he never really made it up to her.

I didn't get their relationship and I didn't connect to them as a couple. The whole time I was reading it I was just like whatevs!!!

I don't know what Marguarita did in her past life but damn getting Zacarias as a mate was like horrible punishment. She must have made God really mad! You have disobeyed me for the last time, Marguarita. You cannot continue this way. It is getting worse. Let me in. I can take away the pain. I don't want your help. I'd rather suffer. I want to never forget, never ever forget this lesson of yours. He needed her to keep talking.

Telepathic communication went directly from her mind to his. He found her thread and used a very delicate touch, weaving his thread to hers. You knew I would bring you into my world. This was consequence.

To protect both of us. To protect my brothers from having to hunt me. To protect your family here from a monster unlike any other. You can say it isn't a punishment, but you meant it that way. View all 66 comments. Sep 07, Katie babs rated it did not like it Shelves: gag-worthy-book. One of my all-time favorite romances is Dark Prince by Christine Feehan. But then I walked away from the series when I noticed her heroes were becoming too unbalanced.

These male characters were far too obsessed with the heroine, and regardless of her wants, they claimed her as their own, almost forcing her to bend to their will, One of my all-time favorite romances is Dark Prince by Christine Feehan.

These male characters were far too obsessed with the heroine, and regardless of her wants, they claimed her as their own, almost forcing her to bend to their will, or in many cases not taking no for an answer. And then when I read Dark Secret Carpathian 15 and the hero, from my point of view, ends up raping the heroine into accept him, that was when I had enough.

Dark Predator is the 22nd book in the Carpathian series. As I read Dark Predator, I grew worried and very concerned. This book is alarming on so many levels and it reads more like an anti-romance. The hero, Zacarias comes across more like a psychotic villain than having the attributes of a hero.

When all was said in done, not only did I want to throw this book against the wall, but I wanted to torch it and write my first angry letter ever to an author, shocked that Christine would write such a thing.

Having a hero who attacks, throws the heroine around, threatens her with torture, rape and death just because she saves his life, including other shocking acts against her emotionally and physically is where I wonder, what in the world was the author thinking when she wrote this? But not Zacarias. Zacarias already has many vampire traits and because of that he will kill himself, die with honor and let the sun fry him to a crisp before he goes insane.

Marguarita comes across him and drags him into her home to save him from dying. You will regret your disobedience, he vowed, and he would promise a brutal retaliation against Marguarita for saving him.

Marguarita has the ability to calm animals, especially horses, but not the animal Zacarias. She just had to save him. For some reason Marguarita has gone to sleep even with the deranged Zacarias in her house. How about an example of how Zacarias punishes Marguarita for her insolence? He lowered his head toward the sweet vulnerable spot where her pulse pounded so frantically. He wanted her to know.

He wanted her fear. He intended to hurt her so she would never forget why she should obey. He bit hard, without a numbing agent, puncturing her neck deliberately close to her throat. She should have remembered the vampire attacking her. She needed another lesson in just what a dangerous, uncaring vile creature could do. Marguarita was attacked in a past book by a vampire who tore out her voice box.

She can no longer speak. Zacarias wants her to remember her violent attack by this creature through by him as a form of punishment. Fear was simply a tool to him, one he wielded easily. The idea was ludicrous. He would never hit her. But not tremble in passion, but in soul and body numbing fear. Can we say Zacarias is a raging lunatic? There are so many more passage like this riddled throughout this book.

Christine Feehan should be ashamed to have written such a thing. The violence against Marguarita from Zacarias is consistent throughout the entire novel. Even after info dumping galore and reasons given why Zacarias has acted the way he has against Margarita, is no valid explanation for why he has brutalized her.

Never considered burying his body deep in a woman doing whatever he wanted with her-until that moment. Words escape me about this book. Do readers really enjoy reading about a character like Zacarias who abuse the heroine so horribly? Also, the violence against women here is massive, including when the villains come along and beat Marguarita and her female neighbor within an inch of their lives. A hero who treats the heroine worst that a dog is not a healthy story and insulting to the romance genre as a whole.

I will never read another book by Christine Feehan because of how she has glorified and romanticized violence and abuse against women in the form of a romance novel called Dark Predator. View all 32 comments. Dark Predator is the 22nd installment in the Carpathian series and I'm just not sure how I feel about the book. Zacarias was, in my opinion, perfect. He was true to what I would expect from a Carpathian who is as ancient as he is. Because of that I can see how he would have no idea, whatsoever, what a modern woman would be like.

How independent they are, how self sufficient. For the most part, Marguarita seemed to have a foot in both worlds. She was thoroughly modern and self sufficient, and yet she seemed to know exactly what Zacarias needed and why, and had no problem accommodating him.

She was still a strong, modern woman, but she was exactly the old fashioned kind of female Zac needed for his Lifemate. But with that lacking in Dark Predator , the relationship building seemed uneventful to me.

And what happened to the celebration we always see when a male finds his lifemate!? There was nothing… just… nothing. The one who did so much for everyone, who was so close to becoming evil, the one male everyone worried about more than any other!!!

To be a family again. View all 20 comments. Sep 07, Jen Davis rated it it was ok. The Carpathian world has gotten a little more complicated lately.

What was once a series focused almost completely on an individual romance in each book, picked up broader, ongoing arcs in later installments. Mages, jaguars, and dragons joined the mix. Longtime mysteries were finally solved. But Christine Feehan is taking a step back from all that in Dark Predator. As the book begins, Zacharias de la Cruz is ready to end his own life. He is unable to fight the darkness within him any longer. But The Carpathian world has gotten a little more complicated lately.

But he is undeniably drawn to one of his properties first. There, he sees Marguarita, the young woman made mute and nearly killed by a vampire in the last book. He considers her to be a fine choice for his last vision before death.

Marguarita isn't having that, though. She realizes what he is doing and despite his mental protests, she saves his life. And that is the beginning of their journey to becoming lifemates. The romance in this book was slow in coming. One third of the way through and our couple hadn't even kissed Even stranger, the word "velvet" didn't make an appearance until page in my ebook.

Unheard of. But just because the "velvet" count was low -- Feehan kept up with her reputation for repetitive themes. Zacharias is dangerous, dangerous, dangerous. And "predator" was the word of hour, used in some form 54 times in the course of the book.

But I digress. In what's become the standard for the series, Zacharias is the darkest Carpathian ever. Aren't they all? But he is so close to the edge, that the whole lifemate business doesn't work quite right for him.

In fact, it takes some time before he even realizes that Marguarita is his fated mate. He is violent, cruel at times, and ridiculously overbearing And Marguarita just takes it. She feels guilty for ruining his chance to meet the sun, at first. Later, of course, she experiences those lifemate ties. But it's still alot to accept that she would essentially give up the reigns of her life to him so quickly.

I guess if you have a male lead who is that dominating, a relationship won't work without a female willing to be submissive. So like I said in the beginning, the story is kind of a throwback in the sense that it is all about the relationship and conflict directly surrounding our couple.

All the side stories of recent books are essentially ignored. I kind of missed them. The love story was ok, but at times Zacharias and his angst were just too much. It was also really slow in the beginning, with more drawn out descriptions than I cared to read. On the plus side, I finally got the answer as to why a bunch of brothers from the Carpathian Mountains ended up with Hispanic names. It's been bugging me since this family has been introduced.

I'm kind of curious who will be featured in the next book. There is no obvious set-up that I can see. View all 6 comments. May 13, Kara-karina rated it did not like it. I have so many words for this book, and none of them fit for your ears. So sorry, it's going to be an angry rant, not a review. And that all of them have dormant Jaguar blood in them. Jasmine Sangria - sister to Juliette - is first introduced in Dark Hunger plot. A jaguar female and could be a lifemate to a Carpathian male.

As of Dark Possession, Jasmine is pregnant. With Dark Symphony, Christine introduces a new concept while converting a psychic female with Jaguar blood - Antoninetta Scarletti's blind eyes seem to be giving sight back to her. Vampires are congregating; using hypnotic dances and holding spells; injecting a fast acting poison impacting the nervous system; can cause Carpathians to sever the mental path the Carpathians share; casting a silvery net to capture the hunters in their molecular form; master vampires running together; use animals to pry on others; a multigenerational poison that could attack the healers, fighting the master mage Xavier introduced in Dark Demon plot , ingest parasites so their blood can differentiate between vampires and carpathian males.

The Morrison Center for Psychic Research is targeting psychic humans and jaguar females, documenting about them to kill them in the end. Lifemate pairs introduced as the series progresses: Will Christine have a plot for these pairs sometime in future?

Eric and Celeste — Celeste is pregnant with child in Dark Prince, but no mention of them in the books after. Vlad and Eleanor Belandrake - In Dark Symphony it is shown that she has given birth to Benjamin "Benj" and also adopts Josef - son of another Carpathian pair who are lying in ground now, Lucia and Rodaniver.

Other Carpathians who are waiting for their lifemates as of this book and we meet as the series progresses are:. Dimitri Tirunul — another ancient Carpathian mentioned briefly for the first time in Dark Desire plot.

First introduced almost 15 years ago, we as readers already know that his story would not be until the 25th book in the series. He is lifemate to Skyler Rose. Tiberiu Bercovitz - an ancient mentioned in Dark Celebration plot. He was known to be amazing with weapons. Andre - an ancient Carpathian who keeps mostly to himself, introduced first in Dark Curse. Being so many few Carpathian females born, a few females that Christine still manages sneak in her plots are:.

Her story is in Dark Desire. Her story is in Dark Magic. Desari Daratrazanoff - lifemate to Julian Savage, sister to Gregori and Darius; has the power to sing that could bring peace to all beings. Her story is in Dark Challenge. Syndil - lifemate to Barack, both part of the troupe Dark Troubadours, with tremendous healing powers and has an affinity to earth. Her story is spread in two books - Dark Challenge and Dark Fire.

Francesca Del Ponce - lifemate to Gabriel Daratrazanoff. She is a powerful healer; has ability to bring peace to anyone who is in her vicinity or by touch; makes stained glass patterns and quilts that are specific to one's need and bring healing to them.

Her story is in Dark Legend. Natalya Shonski - lifemate to Vikirnoff Von Shrieder. She is part human, part mage and part Dragonseeker. She also has the tigress inside he and has ability to see the past of anything that she touches.

Her story is in Dark Demon. Her story is in Dark Slayer. She is part human, part Carpathian and part Dragonseeker; and a daughter of Razvan Dragonseeker. Her story is in Dark Curse. The acid blood from the vampire attack soaked into the groaning, protesting earth, but again, his brothers would seek that vile poison out and eradicate it. His stark, brutal journey was over. Well over a thousand years of living in an empty, gray world.

He had accomplished everything he had set out to do. His brothers were safeguarded. They each had a woman who completed them. They were happy and healthy and he had eliminated the worst threat to them. By the time their enemies grew in numbers again, his brothers would be even stronger. They no longer needed his direction or protection. He was free. Of blood.

Solange, lifemate to Dominic, his oldest friend, with her pure royal blood, she would change their lives for all time. He was too damned old, too set in his ways and oh, so tired, to ever make the kind of changes to continue living in this century. He had become as obsolete as the medieval warriors of long ago.

The taste of freedom was metallic, coppery, his blood flowing, the very essence of life. There was no swaying him with pity or love or gentleness. He had no kinder, gentler side. He was a killer. And his time was over. Carpathians were vulnerable during the hours of daylight—especially him. The more the predator, the more the killer, the more the sunlight was an enemy.

He was considered by most of his people to be the Carpathian warrior who walked the edge of darkness, and he knew it was true. He heard his brothers calling to him in alarm, but he kept walking, picking up his pace. Freedom was far away and he had to get there. He was going.

All four of them. Riordan, the youngest. Manolito, Nicolas and Rafael. They were good men and he could almost feel his love for them—so elusive—just out of reach. They blocked his way, stopping him from his goal—and no one—nothing—ever—was allowed to get between him and what he wanted. A snarl rumbled in his chest. The ground shook beneath their feet. They exchanged an uneasy glance, fear shimmering in their eyes. That look of such intense fear for their own brother should have given him pause, but he felt—nothing.

He had taught these four men their fighting skills, survival skills. He had fought beside them for centuries. Looked after them. Led them. Once even had memories of love for them. Now that he had shrugged off the mantle of responsibility—there was nothing. Not even those faint memories to sustain him. Only death and killing. An order. He expected them to obey as everyone obeyed him. He had acquired wealth beyond imagining in his long years of living and in the last few centuries he had not once had to buy his way into or out of something.

One word from him was all it took and the world trembled and stepped aside for his wishes. Reluctantly, far too slow for his liking, they parted to allow him to stride through. The centuries had shaped him—honed him into a violent, brutal predator—a killing machine. There were few to equal him in the world. And he walked the edge of madness. His brothers were great hunters, but killing him would require their considerable skills and no hesitation. They all had lifemates.

They all had emotions. They all loved him. He felt nothing and he had the advantage. You will also find that these characters are closely connected to the characters that are jaguar people like in book This book is called Dark Predator because of who Zacarias is. He has a darkness in him that makes him a superior hunter and excellent fighter. But that same darkness makes him a loner and unable to exsist in the world that his brothers have created.

So he exists near them. Close enough to help protect them but far enough that his darkness doesn't affect them. If you've been reading this series, you know that when the Carpathian hears his lifemate's voice then his whole world changes and he starts to see in color and they come together, not always easily.

Marguarita was attacked by a vampire in book 21 and her voice box was destroyed. So she can't speak. So even though she's a fierce protector to the De La Cruz brothers, she can't actually speak to them. But to follow the storyline of previous books, she's psychic and has an affinity towards most animals and loves horses the most.