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SHB’s Likes and Dislikes: Ruthless Game by Christine Feehan

K.C. — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:51:58 +0000

Genre: Paranormal Romance

#9 Ghostwalker Series

416 Pages

Kindle $6.99

Ruthless Game is Kane and Rose’s story. For those of you like me and don’t know who the heck these characters are let us refresh your memory. Think back to Deadly Game (book #5 and one of my all time favs). Kane was in Dr. (Evil) Whitney’s breading program when he fell for Rose, one of the orphan’s Whitney bought to enhance and run his inhuman tests on. After finding out that she is pregnant Rose escapes with the other girls and run away from Kane (this isn’t even mentioned much in this book – Oye vey) Ruthless Game starts off with Kane and his crew (Mack and Jaime from book looking for Rose to prevent Dr. Whitney from getting his hands on their baby. Unaware that she is 8 months pregnant, he finally succeeds in finding her and just in time before Dr. Whitney can kidnap her (again) for her baby. Rose, Kane and the help of some new Ghostwalkers band together to prevent Dr. W from stealing Kane’s baby.

What We Didn’t Like

Mrs. K: This series started out as such a promising urban-fantasy-thriller but somehow lost it’s way after the first initial books.

KC: First off as a reader I like to be ‘present’ when the characters first meet, their experiences, (whispers) first s-e-x scene etc. If I hadn’t taken my ginko bilobo I would never have remembered these two met in book 5. I think the author missed an opportunity to refresh readers how on Kane and Rose met and I would have like to have followed that story arc vs where we first start off in this book.

Mrs. K The characters lack a certain authenticity and their relationship felt very mechanical and wooden.

KC: I actually thought Kane and Rose’s chemistry beat the pants off of the previous book in the series. But, if we are comparing character chemistry like Mari and Ken, Gator and Flame – Kane and Rose didn’t sizzle as much as earlier characters. Still, I felt there was sizzle!

Mrs. K Author has exhausted the mysterious Whiney angel and keeps adding more characters, which kind of fatigues this plot for me

KC: I kind of agree. Dr. Whitney is one elusive Mofo. He’s mentioned briefly in this one because he wants Rose’s baby – I think this series could use another villain especially since he’s more of a man-behind-the-curtain villain.

KC I was not a fan of the parallel theme of the drug lord after Rose; it felt unnecessary and didn’t really capture my attention.

What We Liked

Mrs K. I liked that the RG is filled with heart racing action, which helped keep my interest. Especially car chase scene!

KC: Unlike K-Khan I liked the romantic tension between Rose and Kane felt it was more interesting than previous book.

KC: Introduction of new Ghostwalkers. Since we’ve pretty much read all the original Ghostwalkers except for a few, I like how Feehan introduced more characters for us to obsesses over. Javier, Rhianna, and ubber special Ghostwalker Paul.

KC: Ghostwalker Baby. Maybe its because I’m preggers but I liked that we got a glimpse of the baby as opposed to Rose just being pregnant.

Bottom line if you enjoyed the previous Ghostwalker books, Ruthless Game has some great action scenes and Kane and Rose’s story hooked me in. Clearly Mrs. K didn’t enjoy the book as much as I did, but I FORGIVE HER. We both agree that we’re getting a bit fatigued with the main plot of this series and Dr. Evil, but this is Feehan and we just can’t quit her. Although RG was a more suspenseful read than the previous book, it still was missing some of the spark from the earlier books like Deadly Game, Shadow Game, and Night Game.

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One Hot Booklist Series – Books That Make Us Say Oooh-Rah

K.C. — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:25:36 +0000

All books are not created equal. In a series, some books stand out above the rest. We’ve complied a hot booklist of our Fav books in a series, based on the best of the best, be all that they could be, and books that make us say Oooh-Rah.

Kresely Cole’s Immortals After Dark
A Hunger Like No Other
Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night
Dark Desires After Dusk

*Honestly You Can’t Go Wrong with any of her IAD books I prefer the Lykae and Demon books

Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark Hunter Series
Probably best to start from the first book or to read all of them, she weaves a lot of characters in her other books. She must have one hell of an editor!

Night Embrace
Dance With the Devil
Night Play
Seize the Night (you might want to read Night Pleasures first)
Unleash the Night
Devil May Cry
Acheron (You might want to read Dream Hunter first b/c Tory is mentioned in this series)
Dream Warrior

J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood
It’s best to read all her books, I know, even Vichous’s book. Her supporting characters end up making big guest or main appearances in future books.

Dark Lover
Lover Eternal
Lover Awakened (my all time fav)
Lover Avenged
Lora Leigh’s Breed Series
Scientists splice animal DNA and created the breeds. Caged like animals, they fight to escape and start to live amongst the humans. She is steamy so be prepared to arm yourself with a fan when you read her books.

Elizabeth’s Wolf (Published by Elloras Cave I would buy used)
Tanner’s Scheme
Dawn’s Awakening
Mercury’s War
Coyote’s Mate

Shelley Laurenston aka G.A. Aiken

The Beast in Him

Go Fetch

Christine Feehan GhostWalker Series and Latest Leopard Book
A brilliant but psychotic scientist Dr. Whitney, adopted gifted little girls ,(orphans) to conduct inhumane tests. The orphans named after flowers like test subjects, are enhanced psychically and physically, left to fend for themselves without anchors. Fast forward 10 years and now Dr. Whitney is testing on special ops, later to be called Ghostwalkers. The Ghostwalkers must find all of Dr. Whiteny’s orphaned test subjects before it’s too late.

Shadow Game
Night Game
Conspiracy Game
Deadly Game

*There are more, but these are my top favs.

Leopard Series
Burning Wild
Gena Showalter’s Atlantis Series, Alien Huntress, and Lord’s of the Underworld

Atlantis
Heart of the Dragon
The Nymph King
Vampire’s Bride

Alien Huntress
Enslave Me Sweetly

Lord’s of the Underworld
Darkest Night
Darkest Pleasure

Larissa Ione’s Demonica Series
She only has 3 out, but there all good!
Pleasure Unbound
Desire Unchained
Passion Unleashed
Nalini Singh’s Psy Changeling Series and Guild Hunter
*Her Angel’s Blood is my top pick

Guild Hunter
Angel’s Blood

Psy Series
Slave to Sensation
Caressed by Ice
Hostage to Pleasure

Karen Marie Moning’s Fever Series aka what I like to call Fae Series
You have to read them all! I am usually not a fan of one character series, but this series hooked, line, and sinkered me.
Darkfever
Bloodfever
Faefever
Series That Deserve a Mini Woot
Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dream Hunters
Christine Feehan’s Drake Sisters and Dark Series
Autumn Dawn’s No Words Alone (Don’t bother getting her second book in this series, stick to the first one)
Cheyenne Mccray’s Magic Series

Summer’s is here and many great books are coming out, I’ll be updating this Hot Booklist when I can get my hands on them! Air kisses, happy reading.

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A Quickie Upcoming Releases for the Month of June

K.C. — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:30:40 +0000

June 30th

Gena Showalter, releases her new book in her alien huntress series entitled Seduce the Darkness. We cant wait!!!!!

June 30th

Christine Feehan releases her 7th book in her Drake series entitled Hidden Currents.

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