Hidden Currents is book 7 (the final installment, perhaps...) of Christine Feehan's enjoyable Drake Sisters series. In it, we find the story of the youngest sister Elle Drake, and the man destined to help her shoulder the intimidating Drake legacy, Jackson Deveau.

Years ago, as Jackson lay in enemy hands, tortured and broken, Elle filled his mind and shared her psychic energy and strength with him to save his soul. After his escape, Jackson moved to Sea Haven with his friend Jonas Harrington to meet Elle. For years, he has lived on the outskirts of her life, afraid that Elle will never be able to accept the violence that taints him, terrified of the Drake legacy, until the day comes that he must save her life.

Working undercover to bring down a powerful human trafficking ring, Elle is taken prisoner by a strong psychic. She must trust that Jackson and her sisters will come for her, as she endures sadistic torture from a violent man determined to break her spirit, dominate her life, and control her.

Hidden Currents is the most disturbing installment yet in the Drake Sisters saga. The first six chapters are full of shocking details of Elle's kidnap and the subsequent physical and psychological torture she experienced at the hands of a madman. It is sickening and alarming, and is really difficult to read. In fact, I put the book down for a few days after reading those chapters - I was simply overwhelmed. But once I picked it back up, I couldn't put it down. Elle and Jackson are very powerful couple with a dynamic story.

I was happy to see the other sisters and their husbands/fiancés in Hidden Currents as well. Feehan always does an incredible job of tying her characters together with characters from other books in her series, and I am always ready to embrace them and find out what they've been up to.

As the last book in this series, Hidden Currents doesn't quite live up to the earlier books. Don't get me wrong, everything ends neatly, but it seemed as if something was missing. Perhaps Feehan was trying to leave an opening for further books - maybe from the perspective of Ilya's brothers? I suppose we'll have to stay tuned to see if anything comes from that.

This was read totally out of order so I might come back with other feelings later.

I loved Jackson. He is wildly flawed and well aware. He has no chill about how much he loves Elle and his own feelings of insecurity around that. He also stands at her side, not in front of her - I love a united front pairing! Elle is straight-up badass but also broken and I loved that she could be both. There are no magic dick fixes here and the PTSD I felt was portrayed well.

Stars: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Steam:

4.75

I thought Feehan did a good job of wrapping up the series with Elle & Jackson's story.

I did find that this book had much more intense violence than the others did, with the descriptions of Elle's torture by Gratsos being very graphic compared to the challenges that the other Drake sisters had to face on their way to true love.

The sex between Elle and Jackson was also much more graphic than that Feehan gives us in the previous books, although given what both the characters had lived through I don't think it's that far out of reality that they would be more intense about celebrating their survival and their love for one another.

I thought that the story gave good details about the other sisters and some of the other characters in Sea Haven, many of whom were featured in other books. I also liked the way Elle and Jackson's wedding gave us more than the usual wedding on more than one level [I won't say more for those who haven't read the book yet].

All in all, I am very happy with how the series ended, although I am sorry to see the Drake sisters come to an end. I've enjoyed all the sisters stories.

Finally, finished the 7th book in the series. I disliked this one the most. It was much more like hardcore porn and a lot less 'story'. It felt like almost nothing was accomplished, and I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as the other 6 books to the series.

3.5.

This would have been 4 stars from me except that I have a problem with a woman who's been held captive and raped having sex a week after being rescued. I understand it was probably portrayed for pacing purposes, but that's not realistic when you are suffering that type of trauma.

Overall it was a good book and a good conclusion to the series. The internal struggle and feelings Elle experiences are on point.

Very satisfying ending to this series. Although I would have liked to have more of the previous interplay with Elle and Jackson. Thinking about it I would have liked that between Joley and Ilya too.

This was read totally out of order so I might come back with other feelings later.

I loved Jackson. He is wildly flawed and well aware. He has no chill about how much he loves Elle and his own feelings of insecurity around that. He also stands at her side, not in front of her - I love a united front pairing! Elle is straight-up badass but also broken and I loved that she could be both. There are no magic dick fixes here and the PTSD I felt was portrayed well.

Stars: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Steam: