This is the sixteenth book in the GhostWalkers series. This is a blend of romantic suspense and military fiction within the romance genre. It was not my cup of tea.

Lethal Game is the latest outstanding continuation of Christine Feehan’s action-packed Ghostwalker series. This novel delivers even more action and adventure with main characters Malichai Fortune and his wonderful heroine, the mysterious Amaryllis, as the lead couple.

Even after 16 books there is no fatigue only withdrawal

Christine Feehan is usually one of my go-to authors that I truly enjoy reading. Unfortunately, this installment of the Ghostwalker series did not draw me in. I really thought that I would enjoy Malichai’s story but honestly had a hard time throughout the book.

I was confused with the number of characters and the part that played throughout the story. They all kind of ran together to the point where I had a hard time keeping track of who was who and what they would mean to the overall story.

I also had a problem with the timelines. Everything seemed to have happened extremely quick between Malichai and Amaryllis. From meeting to giving her a ring was less than a week but then he talks about ordering the ring the week before. I was confused with the order of things. With how people just came and went or were killed. And then the hate then trust issue with Whitney. They fought to keep away from Whitney but then were working with him in the end.

The story line would have been really interesting if there weren’t so many people involved. I enjoyed the bantering between Malichai, Amaryllis and the other members of the Ghostwalkers. They threw a little lightness into a dark story. And, I would have love a little more of Jacy.

So, unfortunately, Lethal Game didn’t do it for me. I would have liked it a lot more if there were half the characters and if the story was spread out a little more than a week. I was thrilled that Amaryllis trusted Malichai and accepted her status as being part of the Ghostwalker family.

Lethal Game is the newest book in Feehan’s GhostWalker series. I adore this series. There are some books I like less than others, but I have generally enjoyed every book in the series. This book is no exception and is even one the better books. This book was “lighter” for lack of a better term. Part of these books can be really dark, but that aspect wasn’t as prominent in this book.

When the story begins, Malachai is on a rescue mission with his paratrooper team. The mission goes south and Malachai finds himself wounded. Although he almost dies, he makes it through with just a bad leg injury. His family decides that he needs some R&R and send him to San Diego to recuperate. While in San Diego, Malachai isn’t supposed to be doing much. He’s supposed to be babying his leg as best as possible and relax. Well, relaxing isn’t Malachai’s thing. Offering to help out at the bed-and-breakfast he’s staying at is the only thing left for him to do. That’s when he meets Amaryllis.

Amaryllis is a fellow GhostWalker who is on the run. She’s found herself a nice place to hide in San Diego and is happy there. She loves working at the bed-and-breakfast and loves the family that owns it. She’s not used to running into men like Malachai and she immediately looks at him as suspicious. She instantly realizes that he is like her. Thinking that he is there to take her back to Peter Whitney, she prepares to run. Then she gets to know Malachai.

Soon Malachai and Amaryllis find themselves in the mist of a homegrown terrorist plot. They know something is going on, but they’re not sure what. Every one that is staying at the inn is a suspect. When two of their guests turn up dead, they have to uncover if it’s something GhostWalker related.

I really enjoyed the romance here. I enjoyed how sweet Malachai was. Oh, the guy could kick some ass, but I really enjoyed seeing the softer side of him. Or maybe it was softer emotions? I don’t know, but it didn’t have dark elements like some of the previous books in the series (Viper Game, Spider Game, etc). It was refreshing in some way. And although it was lighter, that didn’t take away from the intrigue and romance.

Rating: 4 out of 5.

I felt that the author put minimum effort into developing a believable plot and dialogue. I read the first few books in this series many years ago. The best I can remember, I liked those and thought they were good escapist, steamy, adventure stories. This one was not so bad that I set it aside, but it was poorly done in my opinion. Perhaps the problem was that it was an advanced review edition. Hopefully, the final published edition is better.

Lethal Game by Christine Feehan is the sixteenth book in the Ghost Walkers series. The novel is suspenseful and filled with action-packed drama and romance that will have you begging for more when its all said and done.
With a fast-paced plot and enjoyable characters, I highly recommend you pick up a copy today.

Lethal Game by Christine Feehan is the sixteenth book in the Ghost Walkers series. The novel is a suspense-filled and action-packed romance that takes the readers on a wild ride with Malichai and Amaryllis. The new edition to Feehan’s Ghost Walkers series will delight current admirers of the books and add new readers into fan club.

Another stunningly awesome installment in the Ghostwalker Series

I really, REALLY loved this book! Christine Feehan has been a favorite of mine for well over a decade, and she’s back in force with the latest Ghostwalker book. I could NOT put my kindle down. An instant hook, you’re drawn in to the story and the characters from word one.

Our hero, Malachi, is loyal and fun. Amaryllis is fierce and wary. Together their chemistry is off the charts. I love having the wonder of a long, strong, and well-written series such as this – revisiting favorite characters from past books is such a treat. Those threads are wound together so deeply and intricately – the attention to detail throughout the individual stories, and the series – is amazing. Each new book drives this series to new heights. Once you read, one, you’ll be hooked on the series!

This story has all of the elements we’ve come to expect from Ms. Feehan – wild emotion, witty dialogue, sizzling chemistry, and heart-stopping suspense centered around some of the most amazingly resilient, loving and loyal characters you’ll ever read.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an ARC copy of this book, for which I’m voluntarily providing an honest review.

My general rating rationale:

3 – Perfectly fine story, perhaps some minor editorial errors. Entertaining. Typically with this rating I feel like there could have been MORE – be it believably/relatability, character development, internal dialogue, explanations or depth, richness to the overall storyline, etc. May lose a bit of engagement here and there but always finish reading.
4 – A very good book. Engaging, with well-developed characters, a great plot, relatable scenarios; keeps you invested to the last page. Would recommend to reader friends.
5 – Can’t say enough amazing things, loved the characters, fabulously detailed plot, a quick hook, intense investment in both story and characters (including supporting characters) throughout the book. Will tell anyone who will listen that they should read it.

Lethal Game by Christine Feehan is the latest addition to her Ghostwalker series and it’s a good one. While this can be read without reading the others in the series, it would enhance the reader’s enjoyment to have this prior knowledge. This book has lots of action, romance and strong main characters. As usual, Feehan does not disappoint in her writing. It is crisp and sharp and draws the reader into the story as if they are a participant. Looking forward to the next installment in this series.
Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book for an honest opinion.

It has been several years and even more titles since I have read a book in the Ghost Walker series. But the description of Malichai and Amaryllis' story peaked my interest. And I am so glad it did! Lethal Game goes back to how the first books in the Ghost Walker series were written. There's drama, action, and romance with the paranormal world of the Ghost Walkers wrapped around it.

Readers could read Lethal Game as a stand alone title. But I do recommend starting at the beginning of the Ghost Walker series to get the full effect of their world and the people in it. Personally, the last few books of the series did not deliver liked I had hoped. But Christine Feehan comes back full force with this title. So give it a chance and stick with it!!

I was given a ARC copy of Lethal Games through Netgalley and the publisher for a honest review of the title.

*4.5 stars*

Another emotional and suspenseful read…

It took me a while to warm up to this series and I constantly have to wonder why that was because each read now is one I savor. The stories have all the elements I look for and have come to expect from this author – heart-pinging emotion, stomach-jumping tension and always family and love… And the opening chapter of this read? Yeah, turn the lights up high and cuddle up as it was unsettling as it was intense (and oh so good)!

Malichai and his brothers had come through a lot together. Somehow, they grew stronger and their bonds never wavered. They found only more love and support with a new family with brothers and sisters, and a Nonny, they could always rely on. Sidelined by a brutal injury, away from the land and people he loved, Amaryllis was as unexpected as the danger they both found themselves in. If I had any thought their courtship would be ordinary that quickly was set aside as mysterious events escalated to terror-level threat…

Malichai and Amaryllis were amazing as their strong personalities and unique skills came together to solidify their bond as they battled more than one dangerous situation. They needed even more of that strength to overcome old fears and new challenges. With family at their side, this was a roller coaster ride, a true heart in your throat read that left me reaching for the first book in the series. Again…

It took me eight days to finish this book. Not because it was boring. Not because it was difficult to read. There was absolutely nothing wrong with this book. It's just that I wanted to savor this story for as long as possible. The hero that Christine Feehan created in Malichai was a man who was perfect in his every imperfection. Sold by his mom for drugs, he grew up on the streets with his brothers, learning to survive and ended up becoming the most compassionate, patient, understanding person I've probably ever had the pleasure to read about.

In the military, Malichai was a soldier and a doctor. He put himself constantly in danger, rescuing wounded soldiers under heavy assault. He was relentess, tireless, courageous and dangerous. He was a GhostWalker, meaning he was enhanced through experimentation, giving him more gifts than were covered in this book. He was sweet and kind, always willing to give a hand, and extremely protective. When he's injured during a rescue, he's forced to take a vacation and ends up meeting Amaryllis. Immediately he suspects she's also a GhostWalker and when strange things start happening in and around the B&B he's staying at, it's either continue to ignore what's right in front of him, or contact his brothers and admit that he knows just what she is. Hopefully the truth doesn't destroy the love that these two are beginning to share.

This may be one of my favorite books by Feehan so far, for no other reason than Malichai. Honestly, he was incredible and I'd easily recommend this read simply for you to be amazed by its hero. The side characters, the heroine, and the plot were also amazing, making them icing on the most scrumptious of cakes!

Christine Feehan has the ghostwalkers involved in a Lethal Game. Malachai Fortunes, pararescue doctor with the US armed forces is on medical leave after extensive wounds to his leg which are not healing. At the inn in San Diego he meets Amaryllis, helpful aid to the owner who has psychic powers. They fall across a terror plot by a rogue group from the army who are plotting a strike against an unknown number of people near by. Other
Fastmoving paranormal thriller.

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I just love the GhostWalker series. I like anything Christine Feehan writes. But something was a bit different about this GhostWalker romance. I am not exactly sure how to explain what was different but something was.

I really fell for Malichai. He is hurt but nothing stops him. And part of the suspense is trying to find out why he is not healing the way he should. I mean he is a GhostWalker after all. And Amaryllis is a great character as well. I just wanted to be her friend.

There is truly nothing Feehan writes that is not good. Usually better than good. But I will say this series can not be read as a stand alone. There is a lot of background that moves between the books in this series.

Another GREAT read!

Disclaimer:
I received a complimentary copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

Lethal Game continues the Ghostwalkers series and I am really loving it! Malichai is an enhanced super soldier who was recently injured on a mission. To his dismay, he must now take a "vacation". While at a cute bed and breakfast in California, he meets Amaryllis, a worker at the B and B who is most certainly hiding something. Challenge accepted!

Malichai is a badass super soldier for sure, but seeing him in a noncombat setting, doing domestic things like fixing a dishwasher really made him a dynamic character. He breaks a lot of the trends of male heroes-he isn't conceited, he isn't a whore, and he values kindness. Amaryllis is a mystery in the beginning (to both the reader and Malichai) but it was entertaining to see Malichai peel back the layers! Amaryllis' history was intriguing and I really appreciated how developed her character was in Lethal Game.

Don't let the cute, sea side setting fool you-there is still plenty of action and danger. However, the plot of Lethal Game doesn't have some of the super dark elements that some of Feehan's books harbor. I thought it was kind of a nice change (I read Vendetta Road last month and it was VERY dark). While I have not read all the books in the Ghostwalkers series, Lethal Game makes me want to read more of them for sure! If you like a touch of paranormal/supernatural with your suspense, Lethal Game delivers in spades. It also gives you some GREAT characters that will hold a place in my heart for sure.

LETHAL GAME is the sixteenth instalment in Christine Feehan’s contemporary, adult GHOSTWALKERS erotic, paranormal romantic suspense series focusing on an elite group (4 teams) of enhanced men and women known as the Ghostwalkers (GW). These ‘super soldiers’ were once part of an unauthorized government experiment performed by Dr. Peter Whitney but several soldiers have, since, opted into the program on their own. This is US Air Force pararescue medic Malachai Fortunes, and B&B employee Amaryllis’ story line. LETHAL GAME can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty but I recommend reading the series in order for back story and cohesion.

Told from several third person perspectives including Malachai and Amaryllis LETHAL GAME follows in the aftermath of a rescue that went horribly wrong. Shot several times while trying to rescue a number of American soldiers injured and caught behind enemy lines in Afghanistan, Malachai Fortunes would use a second-generation ‘zenith’ patch to stop the bleeding before seeking medical help but Malachai would quickly discover that not all was going according to plan when a forced leave would reveal the continuing deterioration of his injured leg. Meeting Amaryllis, at a B&B in San Diego, California found our hero instantly attracted to a woman who was obviously part of Whitney’s orphan’s experiment. What ensues is the quick building relationship between Malachai and Amaryllis; the discovery of a home-grown terrorist plot; and the on-going breakdown of Malachai’s leg.

The relationship between Malachai and Amaryllis is one of immediate attraction but Amaryllis knows to reveal the truth could mean imminent death if anyone were to find out our heroine had enhanced, super powers. A psychic healer injected with several animal and insect DNA, Amaryllis knows it is only a matter of time before Dr. Peter Whitney discovers her whereabouts, and forces her into his breeding program. Malachai Fortunes knows Amaryllis is a Ghostwalker and his mate, and is immediately drawn to the feisty female but Amaryllis is reluctant to reveal her true powers, lest Malachai is a member of Whitney’s extraction team. The $ex scenes are limited but intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large familiar and colorful cast of secondary and supporting characters including several Ghostwalkers from the other three Teams. Ken and Jack Norton make a cameo appearance; most of Malachai’s team and their significant others (Diego Campo, Ezekiel Fortunes, Gino Mazza, Team leader Joe Spagnola and Mordichai Fortunes, Draden Freeman, Trap Dawkins, Rubin Campo and Wyatt Fontenot) join our couple to take down a government led home-grown terrorist attack, as well as the return of Dr. Trap Dawkins and his mate Cayenne. Christine Feehan continues to address Trap’s behaviour by way of Asperger’s syndrome, found on the high end of the autism spectrum, an address meant to assuage the character’s deplorable behaviour in Spider Game (book 12).

LETHAL GAME is a bit of a departure from Christine Feehan’s recent style of writing in that the detailed, graphic violence, or mention of abuse and torture, are limited especially as it pertains to women and children. Our hero is not a manipulative, controlling, oppressive alpha male like many of the author’s more recent leading male characters but he is desperate to protect the woman with whom he has fallen in love.

I would also like to address the similarities between the author’s Dark Carpathians and the Ghostwalkers as it pertains to the ‘healer’s in both of her series. From the ability to ‘see’ into the body, and heal by psychic energy, alongside one or more additional healers is very reminiscent of the Dark Series, and their ability to heal. The descriptions and graphic details regarding the psychic surgery are familiar and comparable, almost parallel to the earlier works in the Dark series.

LETHAL GAME is a story of family, friendships, relationships and love; a story of power and control; of fate and love. The premise is engaging, entertaining and intriguing; the characters are energetic, dynamic and courageous; the romance is emotional and captivating.


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This is my first foray into the GhostWalkers series by Ms. Feehan, but now I’m addicted and need to read them all.
Malichai Fortunes is a GhostWalker, one of the elite. He’s on a forced vacation after an injury has him sidelined. You see, he puts his life in danger daily to protect our soldiers in war torn countries like Afghanistan. This time he’s hurt on a medical mission and he’s forced to lay low before he starts his physical therapy.
Since he’s never been on a vacation before, he doesn’t know how to relax and enjoy. When he hears that the dishwasher has broken down, he offers to help fix it. In his mind, it gives him a mission and get his hands dirty just a bit. Doesn’t hurt that Amaryllis will be in there as well. Amaryllis is a blonde goddess of an employee who’s suspicious and wary of Malichai. The more he’s around Amaryllis, the more he wonders if she’s a GhostWalker as well. One of the women that Dr. Whitney experimented on, who has escaped.
I love the heat between Malichai and Amaryllis. There’s a little bit of the insta-love, something I’m not a fan of, but there’s so much more. It goes much deeper and takes time to build.
This is a story to savor. Don’t try to speed read, you you’ll miss a lot and not grasp the whole story. I love Malichai for the fact that he came from nothing, that he grew up with a drug addicted mother who sold him for drugs. He could’ve been so different, grew up a gang member, a druggie, a thief or murderer. But he didn’t. He’s kind, caring, compassionate. He’s damaged, but whole, complex. A wonderfully written character who isn’t a cookie cutter representation of a man. There’s so many layers to him that I don’t think that even with the ending we got to the depths of this man.
Ms. Feehan has a way of writing a story that makes you feel like you’re a part of it. Like a movie playing in your head where you’re a character, not a spectator. It’s been awhile since I’ve read one of her stories and can’t for the life of me figure out why. She’s a master storyteller.
*I received an ARC from Netgalley and the publisher and this is my honest and voluntary review.

Lethal Game is the newest book in Christine Feehan’s GhostWalker series. And, I can tell you, I enjoyed every second of Malichai’s and Amaryllis’s story.

Malichai is forced on a “vacation”. Not ever taking a vacation or now how to act on one, Malichai is struggling to “enjoy” it. Until he starts interacting with his vacation hosts, which include Amaryllis as one of the staff.

Amaryllis is one of the GhostWalkers that have escaped. Living on the run, she never stays in one place to long…until she finds employment at the B&B in the San Diego area. Here she has found a home… until Malichai comes to visit and everything about her is drawn to him.

I have to admit, this might be one of my favorite reads in the GhostWalker series. Lethal Game has a great plot, amazing hero and heroine and even fabulous secondary characters. But it doesn’t end there. The steamy, sensual character connections are met with the perfect balance of true, and deeply imaginative storytelling.

I received this ARC copy of Lethal Game from Berkley - Penguin Random House LLC. This is my honest and voluntary review. This book is set for publication March 2020.

As a para rescue and a ghost walker Malichai Fortunes jumps into hot zones to rescue soldiers under fire. The book opens with a particularly volatile rescue where Malichai is badly injured barely escaping with his life. Now on the recovery path, he's off to San Diego to recuperate and rebuild his strength. Get set go for an exciting R&R adventure Ghost Walker style.
Amaryllis works at the inn where Malichai is staying. Soon Malichai is underfoot helping wash dishes, fix the dishwasher and doing other honey do's around the place trying to grow his friendship with the beautiful lady. Soon Malichai's instincts are buzzing. There is definitelty something fishy going on and it's not just the ocean right outside their door or the fact that Malichai's leg isn't recovering as fast as it should.
This is one of my favorite books in the series as emotions are blended so seamlessly to humanize these rough soldiers many of whom have painful and tough childhoods. Whitney's experiments with breeding and the orphan children he uses to advance his studies and knowledge of science and human physiology bring a thread of horror and reality into the story which will continue to have far reaching consequences into the future. For the first time, Ms. Feehan puts a name to some of the psychic healing abilities that the team and even Amaryllis possess and how rare and fortunate the Ghost Walkers are to have access to them particularly Malichai who owes his life.
Murder and mayhem show up on the California beach bringing Malichai's brothers to the California coast in an attempt to find answers and stop the bleeding. The women and their talents are formidable weapons in the Ghost Walker team's arsenal and I don't believe I've seen it deployed as effectively as it is in this book. Can't wait for the last Fortune brother to find his soul mate. He's going to be swallowing a lot of that teasing that he's been doling out to his brothers, I'm sure.

LETHAL GAME is filled with action, a romance with steamy moments that will have you sighing and blushing, action, danger, intrigue, mystery and family of all kinds working together. An amazing read that already has me wanting the next one!

Annetta Sweetko, reviewer for Fresh Fiction

Complete review may be found at http://freshfiction.com/review.php?id=70235