Viper Game: A Ghostwalker Novel (Ghostwalker, #11)

by Christine Feehan

Hailed as "the queen of paranormal romance" by J.R. Ward, #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan continues to amaze readers with her phenomenal novels. Now, from the author of the Dark Carpathian series, comes the newest in Christine Feehan's explosive GhostWalker series . . .

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.

• ISBN10: 1410477533
• ISBN13: 9781410477538
• Publish Date: 18 February 2015 (first published 27 January 2015)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 6 September 2021
• Imprint: Thorndike Press
• Edition: Large type / large print edition
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 709
• Language: English

Reviews

[Cocktails and Books]

There are certain authors on my auto-buy list. By that I mean authors whose new releases I purchase sight unseen. Christine Feehan happens to be one of those authors. That being said, this was not one of my favorite books by Feehan. The Ghost Walkers series is a long running one and it’s pretty fantastic if I do say so myself. So of course I expected nothing less in this the 11th book in the series.

Although filled with action and great characters, I found it a bit slow to really get started. The story just seemed to drag on far longer than I felt was necessary. That being said, eventually the story did pick up. However, I still I found a lot of the dialogue to be redundant and unnecessary. At times, even the main character comes across as a real jerk and not likable.

Perhaps it was wrong timing for me. I just couldn’t seem to get in to the story. Do I give up on it entirely and call it a day? I’m thinking no. On the off chance that maybe it was a fluke and I was just not in the right frame of mind for it, I’ve decided to wait a couple of months and try rereading it. Feehan had never let me down before Viper Game so I see no reason why this time would be different. So my current recommendation is Read at your own risk.

Reviewed by Iris for Cocktails and Books