DNF 40%

TW: Child abuse/torture; stalking

This book was not working for me so I am just going to stop. The characters were just ok. I never felt the connection between them. Lust, yes but not much love. The overall story wasn’t very interesting for me either, it was mostly just a lot of sex with somewhat repetitive conversations in-between/during the sex.

I’m not real sure how I feel about this book. This is the 12th in the series. I have been a fan of Feehan’s for years, but this one just didn’t hold my attention. I don’t know if it’s because of the emphasis on bondage and the extensive (in my opinion) description of these practices. The overall story and interactions of the characters was there, but I just didn’t enjoy it as I have most of her other books.

This series has it all! Action, Passion, Mystery and family! I honestly would love this series to connect with the Shadow series!

I have been a fan of Christine's books since Dark Prince released in 1999. I am a true Christine Feehan fan and have read almost all of her books. Most of the previous books in this series were pretty good, and this one was okay too.

Cristine Feehan offered a wonderful mix of everything in her latest Leopard Novel. I was completely caught up in this one from the first page and couldn't put it down until the end.

I was very happy with the story itself. The author introduced a new rare breed of leopards into the mix, and there were some bondage scenes. Flambe was a natural submissive and even more sensual than most female leopards, which if those who are familiar with this series will probably find this a treat. I certainly enjoyed it. Sevastyan and his leopard were strong dominants. It is this author's way to pair her couple's to perfectly compliment each other in every way so the readers can expect a certain level of heat in her books. This one was off the chart hot ! I loved the tension between Flambe and Sevastyan. Flambe had a submissive side but she was headstrong in every other way. She had trouble accepting Sevastyan due to some things in her past, but that was not their biggest threat. As always the author layered a complex thread of suspense and action throughout the story. I really enjoyed catching back up with the Amurov leopards in this book. I'm hoping that we won't be seeing the last of them any time soon.

I loved it ! Can't wait for the next one.

Family secrets long held come to light in this book, bringing a whole new perspective to some of the interactions between the Amur Leopards. Sevastyan has long been one of my favorite characters and we get to see a whole new side of him in his interactions with Flambe. The feelings she brings out in him are hard for him to handle or make sense of and he becomes vulnerable in ways he has never been before. Flambe took a while to get a true picture of why she did some of the things that she did but after she finally had to face the truth of her feelings they were able to get past their barriers and find the very things that she never thought possible.

The Leopard series is always an intense read, the past deeply influencing the present, the leopard always battling with its counterpart. add in the unsettling emotions so difficult to control while still maintaining the discipline required to control the cat!!! Add in the always Hot, Hot love scenes and you have a #1 selling story!

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I liked Leopard’s Rage, it was a good continuation of the series and the history of the Amurov men.

Leopard’s Rage was exciting and a little bit mysterious. Sevastyan is somewhat similar to his cousins in personality but it was still a different mating story with him. It was fun to read, but most of all the Amurov, not knowing how to have relationships with other people or read relationships queues.

I liked the character of Flambe. I liked that all the female characters have their own jobs outside the family business even before meeting their mates. In this case, I liked that Flambe’s company was landscaping and creating gardens, which had meaning for leopard shifters and helped create their homes and lairs.

Little by little, we have seen the Amurov cousins take their fathers down and cement their lives in this new region. We finally read about the death of Sevastyan’s father and how it may be the last of the Amurov’s lair in Russia. They may find some type of peace and tranquility for a while until the next mobster or family attacks them.

From time to time, we meet new male shifters that are not evil and have some dealings with the group. This time we meet Cain Dufort and his secret sex club. I can see that we may have his story later on and he could meet his mate in the future.

Leopard’s Rage may be the first book that author Christen Feehan adds the theme of BDSM in her stories. It’s an interesting change to the narrative and the romance between the main characters, which makes it nice how Feehan blends their sex life with their background.

In the previous books in the series, Feehan has tried to make each female character different from the previous one, and in Leopard’s Rage, I liked how Flambe shifting and mating was different. It was interesting to learn about a different type of leopard and how the genetic complication affected Flambe and those like her. It would be great to meet other shifters like her in the future and be the main protagonist of their books. If you are a fan of Christen Feehan and her Leopard People series, then I recommend to you, Leopard’s Rage. In this story, accepting the offer of mating for protection might not always be the best choice, but for these two lovers, it might be the best, if they manage to understand each other.

With the characters always feeling like the same people in most of her recent books these will get harder to recommend. The premise of her different series, including this one, are interesting but the further into the series you go the characters start to feel like caricatures. I know there is a loyal following but I don't think this installment is really going to bring anyone new to the table.

Hot hot hot! I love this series! Feehan always gives me exactly what I expect from her stories and keeps me coming back for more!

Continuing with her Russian leopards, Christine Feehan brings another sizzling romance. The attraction for both Sevastyan and Flambe are instant and heavy. With the threat of Sevastyan’s father looming along with a threat to Flambe this book is action packed and steamy.

Sevastyn and Flambe are leopard shifter's whose desire has ignited in Leopard's Rage. Christian Feehan portrays Flambe as learning to bring out her leopard while Sebastyn is containing his violence to give her the chance to fulfill her leopard Passion and violence under pressure from criminal leopard's who want to kidnap and use Flambe. Read and enjoy.

This was a good read. Again, this series isn't my favourite of Christine Feehan, but I just need to know what's going to happen next, to see more couples find happiness. These guys from the Russian lairs need to really find happiness, given their childhoods!

We did get a lot of Sevastyan in Leopard's Wrath, since he was Mitya's head of security/head bodyguard. So I'm really glad that he got his book. As well as Flambe, she needed something good, especially since she's getting stalked.

W did have art of Shibari again in this book just like Shadow Reaper. And again, it's pretty interesting, though again, the dominance wasn't really my thing, it does sound like an interesting experience. And I'm glad that they have this way of happiness.

Really enjoyed that ending, it made for great reading. And while I knew that they would work out their issues, well, we didn't fully know why Flambe was the way she was, and to then get that was really great. And it was just so satisfying taking down that bad guy!

This was a really good book, and I can't wait to continue the series!

LEOPARD’S RAGE is the twelfth instalment in Christine Feehan’s contemporary, adult LEOPARD PEOPLE erotic, paranormal, romance series focusing on leopard shifters. This is Russian leopard shifter Sevastyan Amurov, and landscaper/ strawberry leopard shifter Flambe Carver’s story line. LEOPARD’S RAGE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

WARNING: LEOPARD’S RAGE contains graphic scenes of violence and abuse, as well as scenes of bondage and Shibari rope play that may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Sevastyan and Flambe) following several paths, LEOPARD’S RAGE focuses on the building relationship between, and the claiming of landscaper/ strawberry leopard shifter Flambe Carver, and Russian leopard shifter Sevastyan Amurov. Rare strawberry leopard shifter Flambe Carver was hired by our hero to design and landscape his most recent acquired property but Flambe missed two previous appointments causing concern bordering on anger for Sevastyan Amurov until he discovers that our heroine is being stalked and threatened by another leopard shifter. In an effort to protect Flambe, Sevastyan and his leopard Shturm claim our story line heroine and her leopard Flamme, a claim to which Flambe agrees but struggles with in the ensuing days. What ensues is the building relationship between Flambe and Sevastyan, and the potential fall-out as Flambe has been targeted for what she is, and the work she does rescuing endangered and abused strawberry leopard shifters

The relationship between Sevastyan and Flambe goes downhill rather quickly as Flambe struggles with a claiming that was meant to protect her from another shifter. Flambe battles between head and heart, enjoying the Shibari rope play with our story line hero but our heroine fights her own leopard for control, and the unending pain and recoil with every touch. Flambe suffers with a series of physical and emotional issues, and in this, her relationship with Sevastyan continues to suffer. Sevastyan grew up knowing pain and rejection, and his earlier years resulted in the barely veiled rage and anger for our story line hero. Never expecting to find his own mate, Sevastyan struggles with Flambe’s inability to let go, to accept who she is, and accept the male shifter who is unable to love. The $ex scenes are intimate, aggressive, erotic, raw and intense with scenes of Shibari rope play and $ex.

There is a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including many we have met in previous instalments including Sevastyan’s cousins and extended family: Evangeline and Fyodor Amurov (Leopard’s Blood #8), Timur and Ashe Amurov (Leopard’s Run #10), Mitya and Ania (Leopard’s Wrath #11), as well as shifters Jake Bannaconni, Drake Donovan, Joshua Tegre, Elijah Lospostos, Eli Perez, Kirill Chernov, Matvei Bykov, Vikenti, and Zinoviy. The requisite evil has many faces.

LEOPARD’S RAGE is a story of betrayal, vengeance, power and control; a story of violence and abuse; anger and rage; struggle, acceptance, understanding and love. The premise is dramatic and intense; the romance mainly focuses on the Shibari rope play, and the couple’s highly and aggressive sexual needs due to Flambe entering the Han Vol Dan (heat); the characters are numerous, energetic, and edgy.

Now to address the elephant or leopard in the room…what’s with the author’s choice of names? Flambe? Flamme? Sure, the heroine is a strawberry shifter with red/ginger hair but I had a difficult time trying not to laugh every time I read the name. This is not the first time the author has chosen to use abstract names but Flambe is almost comedic in nature, and ill-suited for the intense and dramatic storyline premise.



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Sevastyan and Flambe’s story is the latest addition to Christine Feehan’s Leopard Series. And what an addition it is! The Lore goes that these leopard shifters find mates over nine lifetimes, each becoming easier to recognize each other, knowing when they found a mate.

Not only are Sevastyan and Flambe’s leopards both choosing to mate for the first time, which makes the relationship tentative, both unsure of themselves and each other, but you also throw in their pasts. Pasts full of trauma and estranged relationships and horrors they have seen and experienced. Connections they’ve been denied, giving them little to stand on in the way of relationship or trusting in emotions felt and expressing them. This journey hits you in the heart. Both want to be loved one afraid they can’t give it in return, one afraid to accept it. Not sure they would recognize it.

Sevastyan, chief of security for the Amurov family, his family, and it’s a lonely, dangerous, and demanding service he provides. He wants what his cousins have, a mate of his own. Someone to accept him for who he is, be a partner to share his life with. Someone his leopard can find peace with take their leopard as a mate. He doubts he will be able to find one or if he can give love they need after the abuse and deviant behaviors his past instilled in him, the rage that is part of him and the control he needs.

Then he finds Flambe, a brilliant woman, a landscaper and one who rescues those of her kind from poachers, from abusive mates, giving them a fresh start. A Leopard woman who needs his protection, his strength. Craves the things his special touch can bring her. And their leopards choose each other. But because of her past, she is unable to trust him with who she is and why she needs him, accept he is who he tells her he is, and afraid to open her heart waiting for him to reject her; for the other shoe, her upbring taught her exists, to drop.

So many times I yelled at them, and other characters, not because it was a” too stupid too live” choice but because they had not learned what they need to do, what they could be to each other, how important communication is, when communication in their past had what they wanted removed from them, destroyed… and then cheering as they grew to begin to understand…

Of course with each step forward, something surfaces to push them two steps back, at the worst possible times. Her stalkers, the price tags on her head and possible betrayal; his family, bratya, issues. Her need for independence and not wanting to risk what she can do by allowing him in. Poor Sevastyan has to walk a fine balance of bonding with her and protecting those he’d sworn to protect… battles to protect and end threats, and physical issues, psychological issues finally faced when brought to a head bring a sense of hope for these two. They finally work together, she finds a way to trust he is there for her, at this moment loves her… They are on their way to a Happily ever after.

I hope there are future books and we can see Flambe grow more to believe Sevastyan is always her other half, his love is unshakable. The love she knows they share by the end of the book, will no longer be shadowed by her past trauma. Thankfully, Sevastyan now knows how to push it away! However, He deserves to be seen as the wonderful mate he is all the time to her, they both deserve it. This is a heart touching story that has you rooting for them to form the bond their leopards will search for again and again over their nine lifetimes…I think they achieve that course on their first journey.
The heat level in this story is very high. The shabari element brings it off the charts. It is beautifully written as an integral part of their journey. It's a part of them as what they need as individuals and grows into something they share as a couple. At first something to let them avoid opening to each other, keep a distance, denying the emotions, intimacy and love they start to feel. It becomes something that knocks walls between them down and builds the connection between them.

Flambé is a beautiful female leopard who runs a successful landscaping business. She has a flair for creating leopard friendly landscaping. Sevastyan is impressed with her work but more importantly both he and his leopard find her attractive. From the moment Flambé shows up on Sevastyan's property with a group of unfriendly leopards chasing her Sevastyan is ready to defend and protect and the story takes off in a red hot flash which never cools until the end.  This is one book in the series that is a define "MUST READ" in my opinion.
While the attraction between the two is red hot they're both keeping secrets from each other. Will they be able to work their way to the real people behind their masks to find true happiness.  Readers are well aware of Sevastyan's baggage both family and the criminal but Flambé is the surprise behind the beautiful and delicate façade.
Many of the characters and couples from the previous books make their way into this one and we have a nice chance to catch up on the lives of these characters after the end though at no point do Flambé and Sevastyan yield the center stage.  In Ms. Feehan's inimitable way the sex is red hot, the character building and relationship is fabulous. Flambe's secrets are explosive and dangerous.
Will Sevastyan win the mate that he needs and wants or will he lose Flambé as he tries to bridge all the variables between his world and her world. A great read. I'm ready for the next one in the series.

Sevastyan is a leopard shifter who is an enforcer for his family and their underground criminal activities. He was raised in a very brutal and dominating environment causing him to always fight his rage and keep his leopard in control. His new landscaper is causing his leopard to want to come out and Mate.

Flambre is a rare kind of leopard shifter whose leopard hasn’t fully emergence. She is terrified to release her due to the dangers it may impose. She is already being stalked by a very dangerous and cruel man who won’t let up even after she enlists some help from Sevastyan.

Flambre and Sev’s background stories are very interested. She is very guarded and rightfully so. Her late father left her the business and she also plans to help other shifters of her kind get to freedom. Sev comes from an unorganized crime family which I found intriguing as this a paranormal romance with so much action, mystery and now mob ties.

I struggled with the connection between Sev and Flambre. To be honest the instant love thing threw me off. He basically mates her at their first meeting and she moves in. He wants marriage and the whole works. They are basically in love but I don’t know when they got to be in love. Oddly enough, they only communicated when they were having sex. There is tons of dialogue during the whole four play moments.

I think I would have loved this more if I had read previous books in the series but I blame that on myself and not the author. Ms. Feehan does a fair job at providing background to the characters but there is a whole world she has built off the other books that I think could have provided better insight because I didn’t see Sev as this dangerous creature as he kept saying. He appears to be gentle and loving at all times.

I haven’t read a shifter romance in so long and this was a slow and gentle ease back into the paranormal genre as a whole. I look forward to going back to the beginning and discovering the characters and this world.

~ Samantha

When I first started reading the newest leopard book, my first thought was “oh no”. How can Sevastyan an “enforcer” or “bodyguard” leopard possibly separate from his job which requires 24/7 strength and protection of Mitya to even begin to concentrate on a possible mate. And Sevastyan is a fierce Amurov Leopard, raised with brutality. His loyalty is to his family who he loves and will die for. He does not believe that a mate is in his future due to his career and the history of his family. He is however in his first life cycle so there is hope for the future.
Flambé is a small petite lady. Her leopard is a small, rare subspecies. She is a strong woman, running the landscape company that her dad had built, and she had grown up working right along side of him.
Her leopard is about to emerge in the Han Vol Dan, which she has no knowledge of. So, her leopard coming to the surface has poor Flambé hot and bothered and embarrassed because of her behavior.
Flambé meets up with Sevastyan as he wants to hire her company to landscape his property. For the first time in his life, his leopard is quiet and calm. But at the same time, he is also extremely interested in Flambé and her leopard.
Do Sevastyan and Flambé have a chance to get to know each other? Could they possibly be life mates? What obstacles might interfere with their romantic relationship?
Gee, where to start! Flambé has a very cruel leopard hunter stalking her. And he refuses to take no for an answer.
Flambé also has a secret obsession with Sevastyan. She has observed him at the club where she is working and can not stop thinking about him.
And Flambé also runs a leopard underground railroad. Bringing families, in particular, female shifters to the United States to get them out of dangerous areas. Helping to establish identities, housing, work, and any other assistance needed to get them off to a good start in America.
And Sevastyan? Gee, he only has a price on his head, along with his cousins. They escaped from Russia, leaving the cruelty of their lair, and moving to America.
He also is a member of the mob. But not the mob. But the mob. Lol
He will lay down his life for his cousin. Family safety and loyalty is ingrained in him.
One more important item, Sevastyan’s father Rolan has come to the United State under diplomatic protection. Rolan has sworn to kill Sevastyan and all the cousins for deserting the lair and leaving Russia.
Sevastyan and Flambé have a few things to over come if they want to be together. Can they succeed?
This book got me hooked! Christine Feehan introduced Shibari into our reading worlds through the Shadow Series. And we learn more in Leopard’s Rage. A wonderful book to curl up and enjoy!
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Leopards and love…

I was so happy to start reading Sevastyan’s story! He and his brother leopards continued to build a new future for their families, each one finding their other despite all the danger they faced. They wore both black and white hats (I like to think the white was the larger) so convincing someone of their true intent while hiding it at the same time was more than difficult. Sevastyan’s love wasn’t going to be an easy one to win over (none of them have been!) but he wasn’t a protector for nothing… Flambe was a protector as well but instead of might she dealt in stealth and cunning. Her hat was pure white and nothing was going to stand in her way. She would not lose anyone on her watch…

As I’ve come to expect from this series, their courtship was anything but smooth sailing. Deadly enemies, mysterious betrayals and a lot of unanswered questions between them, meant finding truth was difficult on every front. The chemistry that defined their relationship, began with the physical, between them and their leopards, yet the heart connection was much harder to achieve. Told from alternating points of view, understanding the struggles that went into their many decisions was easier for me as a reader than for them…

At the end I was struck by how well-matched they were even though their differences could fill this book and more. I may have wished for more of the heart-zinging emotional highs and lows I’ve read before in this series but their story was a true courtship with all the loving back and forth I craved…

If you're a fan of the Leopard Series, you'll love this new addition. It has all of the trademark elements of the other books in this line - lots of possessive shifters and lots of hot, sweaty time. The attraction between Sevastyan and Flambe is immediate and explosive. Sevastyan is ready to commit his heart, but Flambe takes much more convincing. We get to see the journey of these two move from outright lust into something deeper and lasting. We also get to return to some of the previous characters and catch up with their progress - a glimpse I always enjoy. You won't be disappointed if you're a regular fan of this series!