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Summary: What can I say except....Wow! Hot!
Review: All I can say is this book is smoking hot! It's one of my CF favorites......couldn't put the book down till the last page. Characters are believable and lovable. I definately recommend all CF's books (Dark Symphany, etc....) there are other characters, such as Nicolas Travane (one of the men that the heroin recuse), who will hopefully get his own book.I am looking forward to getting my hands on her new book "Wild Rain".
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Summary: This book is AWESOME!!!!!!
Review: All right number one the people who gave this book less than 5 stars are reading a little too much into this. The book is not written in big words you can not understand. Ms. Feehan brings together two people of different backgrounds together, one of them is Ryland who is a military man and an average "Joe" who was basically raised poor, then you have rich Lily who can not leave her surroundings for a long period of time. Both characters have physic abilities. However Lily was taken from another country by her adoptive father who experiemented on her, while Ryland signed up to help with researching better military tacitics. Nonetheless he was lied to and was kept captive along with his men for many grueling months. Lliy learns the secrets her father kept from her for so long. Her mission became to help Ryland and his men become ordinary people and is try to undo the mistake her father did with the help of Ryland and his men. If the reader reads the story carefully, the reader will notice that Lily can not afford to be a "slut" Some readers are mad because she decided to give the gift her virginity to the person she feels she wants to spend the rest of her life with. Oh how wrong of her, for shame. Anyone who read the book would read that Ryland made it clear that their relationship was FOREVER, okay. Sometimes the reader needs to read a book ,more than once to fully understand, DO THAT before writting a critique. This story is beautiful and well presented I read it over and over and over... You will not be dissatisfied.
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Summary: Psychic powers, telepathically, romance..end fizzles.
Review: Author has constructed a plot with as many layers as an onion, and each of these "layers" has been lain out as advanced psychic powers, the experimenting on men from an elite military squadron. The men, lead by Ryland, are separated and caged like lab rats in an underground facility where they have learned to communicate with each other telepathically, a talent Lily has had since birth. In true romance form, Lily and Ryland share an instant attraction, which leads to a few intriguing sexual liaisons, which aren't all that believable. Interesting concept, but is need of an occasional need of other alternatives and of the consequences of those ideas suggested as it does begin with a fast pace, but fizzles three-quarters of the way through. This isn't the best novel I've read this month, but it is a book worth considering if you don't value your time and have a couple of hours you wish to squander. With some changes and better dialogue this might make a passable film, but would require work on the authors part.
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Summary: Great Romantic Suspense
Review: Captain Ryland Miller leads a group of men, some military, others from various
Careers, but all are fierce, intelligent men. They were selected from a group of volunteers with extraordinary psychic abilities to participate in a military project headed by Colonel Higgens, led by scientist Peter Whitney. As the project progresses, the men begin to
have severe migraines caused by an overload to the brain as they are assaulted by enhanced emotions, voices, sounds, and noises. Ryland feels guilty for bringing his men
into this project and becomes more than their leader; he is their anchor forcing excess
energy that causes extreme pain from his men to himself. When some of the men mysteriously disappear, Ryland begins to hate Higgens and Whitney. As their power increases, Higgens feels threatened and demands Peter isolate the men and put them in separate cages. Now they feel like laboratory rats being studied and their hatred builds
against Peter and the colonel they feel betrayed them. They secretly begin to telepathically
plan to escape from the lab. Before they can escape, Peter and Higgens are joined by a woman so beautiful she takes
Ryland's breath away. And, somehow she acts like a magnet to relieve Ryland of his pain
by removing the assault of emotions and noise from him. Ryland is wary when she is introduced as Lily Whitney, Peter's daughter, but he senses a soul connection and believes she feels it, too. Furthermore, he senses emotions of guilt coming from Peter as he argues the need to reverse the processes with Higgens since the experiment isn't working as planned. Higgens adamantly refuses and Peter becomes suspicious of his motives. Peter Whitney is missing and Lily's extraordinary psychic abilities show her he's been
murdered and thrown into the sea. Inconsolable, she works her way through her father's
notes and finds one to shock her even more. He left a message telling her of his suspicions, and asks her take over the project to find a reversal to help the men in the laboratory. Even more, he gives her information she never wanted to hear in her lifetime, information that could come close to destroying her. Ryland is inside her head and feels her pain and all he can think of is holding her to comfort and protect her. The story that follows is different from previous dark Carpathian novels, but these men would make wonderful characters of that race. They are definitely alpha men, forceful, dominant and macho, Ryland having the strongest of these traits in this tale. Christine Feehan matches him with an alpha woman, as Lily has the same tendencies, making for a sizzling romantic novel, especially so since Ryland and Lily read each other and can live out each other's fantasies. Whew! Be sure to have a fan handy for this read <grin>. The medical knowledge and explanations went over my head at times because it is so
finely detailed, telling this reviewer how well the facts were researched. Ms. Feehan brings in a great cast of characters in addition to the lead couple, and I can see the opportunity for future stories to develop. As always, there is a very strong thread of family running through this tale, though it's threaded differently in this story, and Lily must deal with information she learns about her past. Ryland will be there with his unconditional love to help her conquer her pain. SHADOW GAME is unique as the multiple plots unravel, and is sure to give readers several hours
of enjoyment and satisfaction. I'm thrilled to see Christine Feehan branch out from her
beloved Carpathian stories to offer a full length novel about the Ghost Walkers (so called because of their skills to invisibly blend into the shadows), and I sure hope there will be more to
follow this one. Readers and long-time fans will not want to miss this highly charged romantic suspense. Carol Carter, Reviewer (As published on Romance Reviews Today)
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Summary: Too Overwrought
Review: Disappointing. This novel was a very slow read. I was tempted to stop reading throughout the book. Too much time spent on how miserable everyone was. Excess of "shards of glass in the brain" type of writing. The romance dialog and scenes even had an overtone of misery. It was ultimately too much to deal with. I like the rest of Ms. Feehan's books but I don't expect to read the rest of this series. It's exhausting, and not in a good way.
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Summary: Just Say No
Review: Do not waste your money on this one! There's only enough story here for a novella, but it seems as though it has been padded out in order to publish it as a novel. Now, Feehan's Carpathian series is a guilty pleasure for me - not great literature but usually a fun read. In this book she tries to take her usual format and impose it on a real world setting involving the testing/training of an elite group of soldiers/volunteers in the paranormal arts. It doesn't work. The whole soulmates-who-are-driven-to-conjoin scenario played to the extent that Feehan does just doesn't work without the fantasy element. It becomes rather ridiculous instead of romantic. The problem is, there's just not enough story to support the cast of characters she's created. So we get pages and pages of duplicated information (first the hero and heroine have the discussion telepathically, then they have it verbally), pages and pages of gratuitous sex (and vanilla sex at that), and glaring plot holes (we're warned several times that it's not good when the heroine has nothing to occupy the great brain of hers but there's no scene where she's put in that position; she's managed to get her doctorate yet she's so totally clueless about sex (and still "untried") that she has to order sex manuals off the internet to figure out what to do and yet she and the hero irresponsibly and consistently have unprotected sex; she's supposed to be this brilliant researcher yet we're never told what actually she's working on; the research corporation she works for, and in which her family is the majority stockholder, is practicing inhumane testing methods on the soldiers yet she doesn't do anything to pull the plug on the corporation and in fact goes to a fund-raiser to raise more money for them!) The only bright spot in the book were the scenes with the soldiers and the dialogue between them. That's the only spot of humor in the book. The heroine almost falls into the too-stupid-to-live category, and the hero is so alpha male and possessive that you wonder how he manages to get anything done and why his team just doesn't turn on him.
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Summary: How Big Were Her Eyes???
Review: Her eyes were too big for her face. How many times do we have to be told this before we finally get it through our thick skulls that HER EYES WERE TOO BIG FOR HER FACE!!! I too have read all of Christine Feehan's books and I have enjoyed every one of them - until this one. Back up and regroup Christine. You are one of the most imaginative writers out there right now, but you have an intelligent audience and you need to write to them. There wasn't even a reason to believe that these two dogs in heat should even be together, much less in love. The only reason I could see that Ryland fell in love with Lily was that HER EYES WERE TOO BIG FOR HER FACE. Thirty times we needed to be told this? One last thing. Why didn't we find out if the dead father actually did or did not do something to cause their instant attraction? Such a big deal was made out of this possibility throughout the book and yet, we never find out. The father probably didn't do anything because Ryland fell instantly in love with Lily because HER EYES WERE TOO BIG FOR HER FACE. That's all. I will say no more. Sorry Christine - you can do so much better than this.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I am a big fan of Ms. Feehan's Dark Series, but lately I wonder what has happened to her writing. This book looked promising but was sadly disappointing. This one is not a keeper.
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Summary: major disappointment
Review: I am such a big fan of Christine Feehan. Discovered her early and wait impatiently for each new book. I think her Dark series is sexy,taut,different and totally consuming. I enjoyed The Scarletti Curse almost as much. However, Lair of the Lion and now Shadow Game almost seem like they were written by somebody else.Again, this was a major disappointment!
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Summary: maybe my expectations were too high
Review: I became an instant fan of Ms. Feehan with the first book I read from the Dark series. I would eagerly await each new book published. However, the last few books she has written have been very disappointing. Shadow Game has been the worst so far. The only thing that kept me turning the pages was the faint hope it would get better. I like the idea behind the book. Handled differently it could have been a winner. I hope Ms. Feehan goes back to what worked so well in the Dark series.
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