Title: Viper Game
Series: GhostWalkers, Book 11
Author: Christine Feehan
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Sensuality Rating: Steamy
Source: review copy provided via NetGalley
Published: January 27, 2015 by Jove
GhostWalker Wyatt Fontenot knows the price he paid for the secret military experiments that gave him his special catlike abilities. After all, he left his bayou home a healer and came back a killer. While Wyatt and his GhostWalker brother Gator may have known exactly the sort of game they were getting into, Wyatt never anticipated where it would lead—or to whom.
The swamps hold many mysteries, but few are as sinuously seductive as Le Poivre de Cayenne. The woman the locals call Pepper is every bit as enigmatic as the three little girls she’s desperately trying to protect. From what, Wyatt is soon to discover. Right now Pepper needs a man like Wyatt. Passionately. But her secrets are about to take them both deeper into the bayou than either imagined—where desire is the deadliest poison of all.
Reviewed by: J9
In a Nutshell: A mildly enjoyable addition to the series.
Why I Read This Book: I can’t give up many series so here I am at book 11.
What I Liked: This author excels at creating teams of men who are like family as they battle forces of evil. For those familiar with the series, this is a new team of Ghostwalkers, only related to the original group in that Wyatt is Gator’s brother. So we get new Ghostwalkers, men who’ve had their psychic abilities modified. The brothers from Detroit that are part of Wyatt’s team have a fun chemistry together, and with Wyatt and his grandmother. The other two team members who come in for the final mission are very interesting, especially Tripp, the quasi-autistic genius with a special ability.
What I Also Liked: The romance between Wyatt and Pepper is erotic and intense, just like others in the series. I didn’t think I would like Pepper’s enhancement but it worked in the story and I liked that the author didn’t cop out and have Pepper magically fixed at novel’s end.
The emotional intimacy is in the “mate” trope formula so that didn’t wow me but it was good enough.
What I Didn’t Like: It was funny how many times Wyatt or Pepper would have internal dialogue that they either could or couldn’t handle something…only to resign themselves to the opposite within a few paragraphs. This internal wishy-washy dialogue didn’t feel like character growth but plot convenience and that’s not my thing.
Also, this is totally nitpicky and perhaps will be fixed in editing, but twice in the book the expression “could care less” was used when clearly the author meant “couldn’t care less”. I ignored it the first time but the second time it bugged me because it changes the meaning entirely!
IMO: Viper Game is a good addition to the series, even with the average romance that’s more sex than emotions.
J9’s Rating:
Haven't read this series yet, but it sounds intriguing! Love the idea of modified psychic abilities! And you'd think that an editor would catch the "could care less" mistake. That would drive me crazy too!
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