3.5 stars

Re-Read / I loved it just as much this time as I did the last time I read it. Two new books have been published since I last read this series so I thought why not do a re-read. It's so fun to get reacquainted with the sexy, alpha Ghostwalkers!

First Review / I loved the Ghost Walker series. Of course some were better than others but overall I really liked them.

Over one year later & finally done! I gave this book two stars because while I found some parts to be enjoyable, it was also kind of difficult to get through. Personally I’m not a huge sci fi fan so that element was not my favorite and I found her writing to be quite cheesy at parts. I’m happy I finished, however at many points of reading this book I was eager to put it down & read other things.

I wanted to add in a little review.. after having read all the books that are currently out for this series I just wanted to let people know that this book is the WORST out of the series.

So if you're starting this series, and this book doesn't seem that interesting to you, continue on and at least try the second book. Because I LOVE this series.. and yet Shadow Game was not that interesting to me. So keep going and see if you like the next one before you give up on the whole series.

The plot was interesting, but it probably needed to be tighter. I was easily bored: long descriptions, lots of nothing. At the end I skipped a lot of pages (sex scenes included, that may say something).

Jamie was absolutely right, tough. This couple was balanced. Still, love at first sight (not lust, love), but at least the romance was there.

I suspect Ms Feehan and I will never be "book buddies" :).

Putting this on hold for now...not a big fan of a MC not believing the attraction they feel for the other is real. I know I'm just going to keep being annoyed.

The fact that I was able to put this book down and avoid reading it for months does not bode well for its rating. I found many parts of this book to be redundant, and thus the novel felt a little dragged out. I enjoyed some of the sci fi elements because they reminded me of Fringe (which, admittedly, is one of my favorite TV shows), but it mainly made me wish I was watching Fringe instead. The author did a nice job setting up the series and I can easily see the direction it will take from here, although I will not be reading the rest. If you're looking for a smutty lil sci fi story, then this is the book for you!

- i’m listened through audio & when i say ryland & his men's voices are S E X Y.. i mean SEXY!

Rereading this for a bit of nostalgia, I devoured this series back in the day and whilst I enjoyed revisiting the ghostwalkers, it also at times did feel a bit cheesy, well at least the romance portion did. I'm still planning on rereading the next book in the series but I think my tastes in romance fiction may have evolved somewhat.

The premise is certainly intriguing and this is book one in a longer series each book featuring a different couple. The ghostwalkers are an enhanced military project that basically has created super soldiers with psychic abilities. Shadow Game is about Captain Ryland Miller and Dr Lily Whitney, daughter of the project lead Dr Peter Whitney.

When Lily is introduced to her father's top-secret government project and meets Ryland Miller she feels an instant connection as does he. Ryland and his men are currently little more than lab rats and this revolutionary project that they all initially signed up for has taken a dangerous turn. It's now imperative that they escape but their trust in the people around them is at an all-time low and with good reason.

Lily finds herself thrown into the deep end when she's brought on board as a consultant to her father's latest project and when he then vanishes she suspects foul play is involved. She is also thrown for a loop when she realises just what her father was involved with and just how far it reaches. She knows she is the ghostwalkers main hope of assistance and is now fully prepared to attempt to put right her father's many wrongs, no matter the danger this presents to herself.

The story itself did at times feel quite slow moving but I was invested enough to keep reading. I preferred the super-soldier storyline over the romance aspect of this which as I mentioned earlier did feel rather cheesy. But this was well written and it's going to come down to how you like your romances served up. 

Overall this was ok, and Lily and Ryland were both extremely likable characters. I'm planning to read further into the series before I decide if I'm going to reread them all. I do remember a few that made more of an impression when I initially read this series and I don't believe this one was one of them. Overall though this is a solid first book and does a good job of explaining the ghostwalkers and their origins.



Reviewed By Beckie Bookworm
https://www.facebook.com/beckiebookworm/
www.beckiebookworm.com

Not enough happening. I had to force myself to keep reading.

I liked the overall outline. The characters are trained military guys given drugs to create psychic powers, but at times they have pain from it. The plot sounds ok. Bad guys want to sell this process to other countries and kill anyone in the way.

The problem is filling in the pages. Most of the book is boring conversation and ponderings about feeling bad, sad, angry, and what to do. Lily feels bad because her father was killed. Lily is upset when she learns what her father did in the past. They talk about what to do about the bad guys, but there is no interesting process of discovery. It has some heroine stupidity because twice Lily goes “alone” to the bad guys’ place saying to her buddies “I’ll be fine, don’t worry.” But something bad happens to her. Other action scenes could have been shown but were not. For example, we don’t see the guys escape from their cells. We don’t watch the scenes when people are killed. There are a couple of action scenes toward the end that were shown, but they were vague and unsatisfying - for me.

When Lily and Ryland first see each other there is an instant bond. Then their conversations sounded like an old married couple. Of course there are several sex scenes. Those are full of “I want you so bad... You feel so good...” It felt like a cheesy campy old-style romance novel.

I know many readers liked this so there must be some appeal.

The narrator Tom Stechschulte was good. I liked his deep sexy alpha male voice.

DATA:
Narrative mode: 3rd person. Unabridged audiobook length: 13 hrs and 21 mins. Swearing language: I don’t recall any. Sexual language: mild. Number of sex scenes: about 7. Setting: current day northern California. Book copyright: 2003. Genre: paranormal romantic suspense.

Except for the InstaLove, this book was pretty good. The series has potential if you like military-type action, which I do, and unrealistic paranormal stuff, which I also do.

Probably more 3.5 star. I could see the author struggle a bit away from her TOTALLY dominant hero to just a dominant hero (who had a very soft heart - very cute). It will be interesting to see how the next books in the series handle this deviation in writing form. On the positive: the repetitive chest-beating and endless sex mumbo-jumbo was largely excluded. The negative: there still seemed to be some struggling to keep the writing flowing and logical. At times, the thoughts of the characters jumped around a lot, making it difficult to work out what they were really saying to each other.

On the whole, I enjoyed the book and have started on the next in the series. Whilst I might get sick of some repetition from the Carparthian series, I still really enjoy them :) I'm hoping this will be an equally worthy series along the psychic line...