Title: Ghostly Game
Author: Christine Feehan
Series: Ghostwalkers #19
Pages: 397
Gideon “Eagle” Carpenter is recovering from some serious wounds when he hears a woman laugh that instantly catches his attention and erases the darkness of his past. . Laurel “Rory” Chappel is a nomad who is used to keeping people at a distance but she can’t keep away from Gideon.
While I have had some issues with Feehan’s recent series, this series has always been one that I get excited to read. Sadly, this one did not hold up to the previous books in this series. First, the romance between Gideon and Rory is really lacking. They are attracted to each other but their relationship was extremely slow and didn’t really have a lot of steam, like the majority of the couples in this series. I think this romance was the weakest of the series which makes me a bit concerned about future books.
This book was a bit different from the previous books as well because there wasn’t any threat from Whitney, no terrorists or extreme missions, and no one really after the Ghostwalkers. There is a threat against Rory and her other friends who live in her building but it wasn’t related to anything Ghostwalker, which is unusual for this series. Because the threat wasn’t Ghostwalker related, we barely get to spend any time with the rest of Gideon’s team, which was disappointing because that is one of my favorite parts of this series.
Gideon and Rory have an extremely slow relationship that is mostly them being apart from each other due to Rory’s skittishness and Gideon’s actions. I liked both of these characters but their relationship wasn’t very interesting since it involved a lot of repeated conversations of trusting each other, breaking said trust, and discussions of their pasts. It just got a bit boring overall and I found myself skimming conversations when they started to have repeated themes.
While I did enjoy this book overall, this was definitely my least favorite couple and their story was a bit anticlimactic. I hope the next book is good but at this point I am a little apprehensive of any Feehan book.
Trigger Warnings: extreme asthma, kidnapping, torture, imprisonment, death, child abuse, abusive parents, death of a sibling, PTSD, panic attacks, nightmares; scenes of apartments and cars broken into and destroyed;
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