This was just okay. I'm glad this wasn't the first book by her, or I would never have read her Carpathian series.

There was something missing, but I will continue the series because the overall plot line is pretty interesting.

I am hoping the next book is more...

4 Shadow Game Stars

I liked how different this book is from other “paranormal” books. It was a little slow going at first but that is to be expected when you’re starting book 1 of any series. The author has to start building the world and you need the details to help understand.

Lily and Ryland are perfect for each other, I loved how he pushes her and she doesn’t even know it but she pushes back. The dynamic between them is sweet and hella hot.

Ryland’s team, I really wanted a little more of them. I think they helped balance out a lot of the seriousness of this book. A bunch of hot alpha men who give each other a hard time. That’s just good all around.

Really enjoyed the narrator Tom Stechschulte I think he might have been a first for me. But I really enjoyed his tone, and the emotions he put into his words.

*You don't have to like my review but its 100% my opinion, and I am allowed to have it.*

This was BOOORING!

Ryland Miller and his team of soldiers have volunteered to be involved in a military experiment to enhance psychic powers and create a new special forces team. But his team members are dying in very strange ways. Lily Whitney has been asked by her father to consult on this experiment to see if she can help to reverse the damages. But more death comes to the people involved with the experiment and Lily must struggle on alone to find the answers.

She realizes that she must put a stop to the experiments and help the men cope with their new abilities while also getting the people in charge to admit the wrong doing.

This was a good book and highly recommended to people interested in books containing the expansion of the psychic abilities in man.

Muy aburrido. La pareja no me enganchó, me salteé todas las escenas de cama entre Ryland y Lily, no sentí chispas, energía, emoción. Nada. Está todo muy dado. El flechazo de Ryland es muy fuerte desde el principio y no hay espacio para una construcción de un romance creíble. Estoy de acuerdo con Lily, lo que él siente por ella es muy flashero.

Pero lo voy a seguir (a la serie) porque si bien es un libro introductorio y pesado, presenta personajes no interesantes pero que sí darán algo de chispa a lo que vendrá después. Le tengo fe a Feehan, me gusta como escribe, y creo que este "bajo" se compensará con algún "alto" que venga en el resto de la serie.

“Shadow Game” is book 1 in Christine Feehan’s Ghostwalker series. Here’s the premise: an elite group of military men have signed up to be human guinea pigs for an experiment designed to expand their psychic powers. Some have telepathy; others can communicate with animals; some have telekinesis; and the list goes on. Unfortunately for our team (who have dubbed themselves Ghostwalkers), problems develop: seizures, brain bleeds, even death. So the men in charge of the project put them on lock down. Separate them. Study them. For the past year, they’ve been like rats in cages.

The leader of the Ghostwalkers is Captain Ryland Miller. At the beginning of the story, he is squaring off with Dr Peter Whitney (the scientific mastermind behind the experiment) and Col Higgins (high ranking military dude who hates Ryland’s guts.) In walks Whitney’s daughter, Lily. She is also a brilliant scientist and her father has called her in to consult on the project. She is also telepathic and has an instant connection with Ryland.

As the story progresses, Peter Whitney is murdered. He reaches out to Lily telepathically at the last moment telling her to help the Ghostwalkers and to right the wrongs of his experiments. Lily finds her father’s secret lab and discovers she is not really his daughter after all. She, too, had been an experiment… one of several young girls with psychic abilities, studied and manipulated by Whitney. When that experiment failed, he adopted out all the other girls and kept Lily for himself to raise.

Lily helps the Ghostwalkers break out and hides them in her uber-mansion. She helps them learn to control their powers. And she continues developing a scorching hot relationship with Ryland. She works with the Ghostwalkers to figure out who is behind her father’s death and who was trying to manipulate the Ghostwalker program for their own gain.

I didn’t love this book the first time I read it. But I find, I liked it a little better on my second read. One of my initial problems with it was the lightning fast relationship between Ryland and Lily. We find out in later books that Whitney’s experiments created matches between his young girls and military men. So that explains it in hindsight. Another problem: there are ALOT of characters to keep straight. You’ve got several Ghostwalkers to remember, plus all the men involved on the experiment who may or may not be bad guys. I found myself flipping back in the book for reminders of who was who… even as I got close to the end.

I can promise hot and frequent love scenes. And I’m happy to say that the language is less flowery and metaphoric than Feehan uses in her Carpathian books.

If this book doesn’t float your boat, don’t give up on the series. In my opinion it really hits its stride with Conspiracy Game. The books featuring the Ghostwalker SEALs are my favorites.

3 1/2 stars.

Renowned scientist Peter Whitney is working on a classified experiment to enhance the psychic abilities of an elite task force. If it succeeds, the military will have a new and unique weapon – mental powers.

But not all is as it seems. The subjects have been dying in freak accidents, and the squadron leader, Captain Ryland Miller, knows he‘s next in line to face his Maker. When Dr. Whitney is murdered, Ryland leans on the only person left to trust, Whitney’s brilliant and beautiful daughter, Lily.

Lily is special as well. With unique psychic abilities, she shares Ryland’s fears, betrayals, and suspicions. And since she shares his telepathic abilities, the two are instantly, potently drawn to each other.

The two will have to work together to unravel the secrets of her father’s past and try to stay alive when a ruthless enemy breaths down on their necks.



A fan of  Christine Feehan's Dark Series, I was not disappointed with this book. In this new series, Feehan focuses on different supernatural powers than in her Carpathian novels. She explores the deepest recesses of human mind and the unbelievable power of the psyche.

This book is a great twine of action, supernatural, high sensuality, and witty dialogue. Though the plot might be a little slow and improbable at times, and the little twists leave quite a few loose ends, whetting the reader’s appetite for more (hence – the series), this is still the kind of book her fans adore.

In true Feehan form (exploited shamelessly in her other series), the two protagonists are immediately drawn to each other, resulting in multiple sex scenes (even a shared erotic dream, another wink at her Carpathians) that seem gratuitous after a while and draw the attention off the plot and danger the two are in.

If you like sci-fi stories with a drop of romance, a whole lot of suspense, smart characters and an erotically charged romance, this book is definitely something you might want to read.

2nd ⭐ was because in some places I liked the style of writing.
Maybe I was disappointed because I expected it to be an action packed spy novel, but it revealed itself as an erotic-romance one with sprinkles of action and most of the things are so rapeatative that it was so annoying to read.

⭐⭐⭐ 1/2

Lily Whitney is a brilliant, psychically gifted woman who is called in by her father (Dr. Peter Whitney) to consult on a on a case he has been working on. Dr. Whitney has been experimentally enhancing the telepathic gifts of a group of military trained men. The group of soldiers have been cruelly imprisoned and separated. Lily is stunned to learn that her father has been experimenting on these men. When Lily meets Ryland Miller, leader of the elite squad of soldiers, they share an instant attraction to each other.

After Lily's father is murdered, Lily discovers that her father harbored some horrific secrets. Even though Dr. Whitney may have done some monstorous things, Lily still loves her father and want to discover who his murder is and bring to justice any one who was involved in the conspiracy of her father's murders. Ryland and his men help Lily in her endeavors to uncover the mystery.


Hmmm... what to say? I have read all of the Dark series up to Dark Peril and was slowly becoming bored of those. I think I have become a jaded Feehan fan. I was hoping for more originality in the Ghostwalker series. But, no such luck for me. Ms. Feehan seems to have a formula she writes from and it is getting on my nerves. I will not be reading further in this series.

I don't know.

2.5 stars.

The plot is good and I liked the set up, but unfortunately I couldn't bring myself to care for the main couple. Ryland was possessive and sexed up and Lily was resourceful and (more or less) smart, but it was something the two of them kept telling each other, and I couldn't SEE it.

I couldn't even see where the passion was, the bed scenes were flat and verbose. She is a virgin and very self-conscious, she is always complaining about her physical appearance. Their first real encounter (because they have sex in a dream first) was so unreal, I mean it's your first time and you orgasm in a heartbeat? No problem whatsoever? And what about birth control? Protection? It's true that the hero wants to have her babies as soon as he meets her, but just a little concern. The most sensual part was when they were stealing a dance together, because there was a lot of eroticism in the fact that they were indulging their senses in a dangerous situation.

Then I couldn't understand the feelings she has for her father, who basically bought her as a child and then trained her as her psychic because he was a scientist and then he adopted her out of guilt, and then he paid very little attention to her. She loves him, then she can't forgive him for what he did, then he was a great dad, then he stood her up constantly.

Everything was hot one moment and cold the next and I was a little bit bored and a little bit annoyed. It's the first time I read something from this author and I am told her other series is better. I think I'll read the second book in this series, because this one wasn't bad, but I wasn't impressed and the protagonists are forgettable.

I have enjoyed this book enormously. It has been such a refreshing surprise among many paranormal series I have read recently. Interesting, exciting, funny - really enjoyable read and I would like to thank my GD friend Giulia for introducing me to it.

The story is about a special military project in which volunteer soldiers receive enhanced psychic abilities so that they can serve as secret weapons. However, something goes wrong and after one year, the "ghostwalkers" as they are called are held as prisoner of war, unable to see one another. Some have died, but their leader Captain Ryland Miller communicates telepathically with his troops. Dr. Peter Whitney responsible for the whole project wants to save the men so he brings his psychic scientist daughter Lily on as part of the staff. And from there the story really picks up.

I have to say the whole idea and world created by Feehan is very creative. Filled with suspense, romance and conspiracy the action never slows down. The whole story is very interesting. I couldn't put the book down, I really wanted to find out who was behind the evil plot, learn Lily's past and see how everything was going to turn out. Loved the plotting, all the twists and turns, and Ryland is just the kind of loyal, passionate, sexy hero you can't resist.

Shadow Game is one amazing book. I can't wait to read the next one as the series is looking to be pretty great. Loved it!