Gwen’s review of Predatory Game (GhostWalkers, Book 6) by Christine Feehan
Contemporary paranormal romance released by Jove 26 Feb 08
Lately, the Game series by Feehan has been my favorite writing of hers by far. The recent Carpathian books haven’t been horrible – well, with perhaps the exception of Dark Celebration (blech) – but haven’t been to the standard I expect from Feehan. These Game novels, though, have always been fun reads. This one stands out among them as being the best so far.
Saber and Jesse were both very likable, believable characters, for all their paranormal gifts. I loved their relationship and the ease they had with each other – it’s a true friendship. I won’t give any spoilers here, but there is one thing that surpised the absolute hell out of me about the hero and I loved it! I’ve never read that particular element in a book and I thought it was terrific. You’ll know what I mean when you read it.
The suspense part of the book – the whole mystery over who is trying to kill the GhostWalkers, who is supporting Whitney, where is Whitney – just gets deeper and the stakes higher in this sixth entry in the series. Unlike the book about Ken, Deadly Game, I felt that the mystery and suspense elements in Predatory Game were nicely interleaved. In Deadly, it seemed like an afterthought.
This book had another absolutely perfect confession of love from the hero. The first love scene between the Saber and Jesse is so heartbreakingly beautiful, it made me mist up a bit. The love story is absolutely the reason to buy this book. Not to mention Feehan’s trademark sizzling sex. I want to find my own Jesse, though – he absolutely made the romance romantic.
I don’t have a lot more to say about this book other than if you’re a contemporary paranormal fan, a Feehan fan, or a romantic suspense fan, you’ll be thrilled with Deadly Game. I do not recommend that readers new to the series start with this book – there’s too much back-story that isn’t rehashed. But if you’re reading the Game series, you want to read this one.
Grade: A
From the back cover:
Saber Wynter is running from her past when she meets ex-Navy SEAL and Ghostwalker Jess Calhoun. But the riddles of both their pasts are about to collide, shattering the promise of their future with the ultimate betrayal.
Read an excerpt.
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Oh that sounds so good. I can hardly wait to read this book. Gwen, I have to agree with you because it’s also my favorite series by Christine Feehan at the moment.
I’m holding out hope that this will be released on audio soon. The other ones have, but they just got around to releasing Night Game on January 28th.
I loved Predatory Game. Mind Game is my favourite in the Ghostwalker series, but Predatory Game would be a very close second!
Bev – You only get unabridged audiobooks. That means the sex is being read to you. When the reader isn’t Phil Gigante (which I can only surmise makes you go all gooey and is a plus 😉 ), how do you get past the squick-factor of someone reading aloud what is sometimes pretty graphic sex?