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Summary: Feehan at her best....but then she always is!
Review: Shadow Game is not a book that I would normally pick up and buy based on the cover (front picture or the brief on the back). But I love Ms. Feehan, and I have to have everything she writes so of course I gave it a shot. Once again, I was not disappointed. This story follows Lily, the brilliant daughter of a brilliant scientist who is experimenting with enhancement of psychic abilities. When Lily is asked for her input on the project she immediately senses something is wrong, and once her father is killed, has to help set things right. Captain Ryland Miller and his team of men (the men Lily's father experimented on) are held captive and being killed one by one. When she realizes Ryland is next on the list Lily has to get them out of there before it is too late for the both of them. This book was yet another page turner, and I am looking forward to future Ghost Walker novels (hopefully the next is Kaden's ;-)). I couldn't put this book down until I had read it from beginning to end. Ms. Feehan knows how deliver, and this book will not disappoint!
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Summary: Excellent novel by Feehan!
Review: Synop: Dr. Lily Whitney is the daughter of Dr. Peter Whitney who is working with the military to create a covert group of men that work as 'GhostWalkers'. Each man in the unit has his own powers, whether they are telepathic, telekinetic, clairvoyant, etc. The experiment begins to go horribly wrong and after the death of her father, Lily is the only one that can save the remaining GhostWalkers from death. Lily feels drawn to the commander of the group, Ryland Miller, but is her attraction real or the result of experimentation by her father?Critique: I have not always been a fan of Feehan. I love paranormal stories, vampires in particular, but her other novels have always left me feeling let down. This was an excellent book that I just didn't want to put down, and not only that, I want to see the stories of some of the other GhostWalkers such as Kaden, Nicolas, Hollister and Gator. So get to writing Ms. Feehan!!!! The story is fast paced and it is very interesting to see the different skills that the men have learned. Ryland is a great alpha male character that you can't help but fall in love with and Lily is soft yet a spine of steel. I will def. read her other works from here on out!
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Summary: Repetitive prose
Review: The book seemed very interesting at first but it quickly became clear the focus was on the sexual relationship of the 2 main characters. It seemed to me that fully half the book was dedicated to the sexual feelings Lily and Ryland had for each other. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing the ground is trampled over and over with the same imagery that quickly became very annoying. How many times does "generous breasts" have to be used to describe Lily's chest? We get the picture after the first few times and the "generous" adjective can be easily left out as it is implied at that point. The book is full of such repetitive sexual imagery and both characters fully fascinated with each other but both thinking they are not attractive enough for the other.
If you are getting this book for the romance and sex you might like it. If you are interested more in the paranormal aspects it isn't quite the thriller you were expecting. Either way reading what seemed like the same sentences over and over can be a bit frustrating.
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Summary: Make room on your Feehan shelf, here is another keeper
Review: The government is experimenting again and you guessed it, something has gone wrong. A specially recruited group of psychic men from the Special Forces headed by Captain Ryland Miller have agreed to have their psychic abilities enhanced, thus the "Ghostwalkers" are created. Greed breeds evil and when mixed with the military you can be assured their inherent need for secrecy will add another layer of problems. Dr. Paul Whitney headed up the Ghostwalker project, however, Colonel Higgens has stepped in to take the project in a different direction. Dr. Whitney brings in his daughter, Dr. Lilly Whitney to help discover why Captain Miller's team is dying, and then ends up murdered. Lilly's last contact with her father comes thru her psychic abilities and begins the hunt for who is killing the Ghostwalkers as well as their creator. Lilly and Ryland are thrown together to solve her fathers murder and save the lives of his remaining men. Their psychic link forms a bond that deepens even though the information Lilly uncovers in her fathers lab rocks her belief in herself and any emotions she feels. Ms Feehan's new series has murder, betrayal and greed forming the basis of her new storyline. Genetic manipulation, straight from todays headlines, makes for a gritty edge to the first of what I hope will be a long continuing series. I've never been disappointed in a Feehan novel and this one is no exception. Her recurring theme of strong men and the independant women who love them is one of the best reasons to pick up Shadow Game. Be prepared with a drink and time to read as you won't want to put it down until you are done. I've been reading the "Dark" series for over 3 years now and never thought that I would find a better group of men to read about, but I must admit that The Ghostwalkers may give them a run for the money
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Summary: Not as bad as everyone hints at ...
Review: The only problem some people have with this book, I think, is the addition of a storyline. In the Carpathian romances Feehan created, the stories was mainly about love, and situations were added for that love to occurr and grow. In this current novel, there's actually a bit more in the telling dealing with pychic powers and struggles for politcal power. Lily Whitney is the daughter of a well known, wealthy scientist. She's brought onto a project of his dealing with the enhancement of psychic abilities, a field in which she knows plenty because she herself posseses them. When her father is murdered, he sends her one last message, telapathically, telling her to free the men of the current experiment and correct his past mistakes. The actual freeing of the men takes place in about the last half of the book, which is a rediculously long amount of time when you take into consideration the extent of the Ghostwalkers' powers, but it allows Lily to do a little bit of the sleuth thing and find out some interesting tidbits about her past. While it was interesting and sort of a relief to actually read something different from Feehan, she seems to want to make up for it with excess sex. Towards the end, I felt that she focused more on that than developing the story. And I never really got a feel for the characters. It seemed like Feehan should have worked on making them more understandable emotionally, instead of mainly writing of the central character's intense lust for each other. It got repetative, I am sorry to say, which in a romance novel isn't a good thing. This also makes me point out that, here, Feehan has tried to create something like a family among Lily, her hired hands, and the other men. But it doesn't quite work. Lily hardly gets to know any of the characters. Mainly all she does is discover those interesting bits and pieces of her past, enough to ensure some sequels, and then has sex with Ryland, her love interest. It got to be a bit slow, and yet if Feehan had put something like a major linking of the Ghostwalkers' and Lily's minds for even a brief moment, it would have been easy to accept. Not that I'm saying this book was terrible. I liked it, yeah, and I'll read the following books, but it had a few flaws that I think the editors and Ms. Feehan really should have smoothed out before this was published.
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Summary: O.K.
Review: This book was okay. Not bad but not great either. Some situations seem greatly exagerated in trying to hard for the story to work. Lily is always in heat. And Ryland well nicolas seemed more intriging.
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Summary: Shadow Game
Review: This is another great book by Feehan, I love it when I walk in the bookstore and see that she has another book out. I must say that I prefer the vampire books that she writes, but she is so versatile that she can write anything she sets her mind to, and do it well.
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Summary: Hmmm... good plot, too much thinking going on...
Review: This is kind of a hard review to write. I'll have to say that I really liked the idea for the new series... the storyline was great, I really enjoyed the action, the suspense, ALL the men in the team, the secondary characters in Lily's family, Ryland & Lily - & their romance... However, it went on and on and on and on about what they were thinking & feeling about each other. That gets so old - so fast. I did major skimming to get through what they thought & felt about each other... in fact, it was almost hard to finish the book. I do want to try CF's next installment of the series, but I surely hope it doesn't have this much thinking in it! (p.s. If you want to get into the new series, I think this book will be a must.)
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Summary: Caleisto's Review
Review: Very hard to get into. Entirely too much mind reading going on. I think I'll stick with the Dark ones!
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