Viper Game

I know there's an audience for Christine Feehan, I'm not it and I need to stop trying to convince myself that I am indeed it.
I'm done, I'm tired of how the rug keeps getting pulled out from under the feet of female characters and how they're supposed to be grateful that a male is around to help them and they're also supposed to put up with bullying and gaslighting. I'm tired of it and I need to stop reading it becuse it causes me to feel upset rather than enjoying it. I keep reading them because Christine is feted and praised and because she is a good writer and I keep hoping against hope that the story will not turn out like every other one. I keep reading because I still have abandonment guilt over books
This story features babies and show more a woman who is crossed with snakes (with a scary libido) and a Ghostwalker who has feline traits and has rescuing people from evil and lots of sex and I didn't care.
Your mileage may vary. I need to stop doing this to myself. show less

From Amazon:

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 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 show more than either imagined-where desire is the deadliest poison of all.

My Thoughts:
I have read this series and Feehan's "Dark" series since the day they began. This series is beginning to take on the same problems as the "Dark" series...just not enough new story line. This story has great potential, and what story there is was great. Unfortunately, this book is about 10% story line, and 90% not so imaginative, and SO repetitive, sex scenes of the filler variety to stretch a short story into a full length book. I understand that these books were never great literature...but they were enjoyable. Now her books are becoming interchangeable and mostly boring. show less

I love all of the Ghostwalker books. They are some of my favorites. This one was not quite as good as some of the others because so much time was spent in the middle of the book going over the same ground repeatedly. Some of the dialogue is even repeated as if the reader can't remember it having already been said. The story, though, is excellent, and the story opens up the focus for new characters and new stories that I can hardly wait to read.

While I like this series, I am not enamored with this book. Wyatt comes off as a controlling jerk; and the relationship comes off as emotionally abusive. It is a true disappointment after Samurai Game. Not to mention, Feehan repeats herself about 18 million times. I felt like I was reading the latest Auel book for a couple minutes.

This series could be great if only the heroines stopped being so helpless! I love the story line and the idea behind this series but I can't help but feel that as the series progresses the women get soppier and more useless.
If they have been raised from birth / early childhood to be merciless killers and soldiers how come they seem to lack even basic survival skills and constantly need to be rescued? And since they seem to be aware of how they have been influenced why are they all so disbelieving that they are (once again) being manipulated?
Just once I'd love to see one of these girls kick arse without falling to pieces with guilt (boo hoo I've just done what I was trained to do, to a bad guy who was trying to kill me; now I will beat show more myself up about it).
Let the guy fall apart - he's only been doing this a few years; they have been trained their whole life.

Having got my rant out of the way this was better than a couple of other books in this series. 3 & 1/2 stars show less

Review courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales

Quick & Dirty: Enhanced soldiers, deadly women, and some little vipers!

Opening Sentence: Wyatt Fontenot tied up his airboat, but stood in it in the dark, listening to the familiar sounds of the bayou.

The Review:

I have read like the first five books, but must have hit a not reading much period in my life because I haven’t read book 6 -10. However, the one thing I liked about this series is while you are missing some information by not reading all them, they are books that can be read out of order or missing some and you don’t feel lost reading them. So no clue if Viper Game picks up after Samurai Game or not but Viper Game does hit the ground running. Wyatt has returned home to his beloved bayou show more after some trying missions and being wounded. He has also returned with two of his fellow ghostwalkers.

But something is up in the bayou, food and clothes are being stolen from locked houses with no signs of break-ins! While trying to figure out of all of this, Wyatt finally stumbles across the woman and child that are hiding in the bayou. Pepper and Ginger are also enhanced but considered very dangerous and were to be exterminated by the Company. This is where it got a little unfamiliar for me, in the first couple of books they finally take down Whitney and it seems like the enhancements and experiments are over.

Clearly this is not the case! Wyatt finds out Pepper tried to escape with three girls, but the other two toddlers were caught while they were escaping. The little girls are vipers; their bites are venomous and dangerous. Wyatt and Pepper fall in love while plotting the rescue of the two other girls, which they find out are their biological children.

It was easy to see why I initially had liked this series so much when it first came out, not sure why it fell off my radar, most likely I wasn’t paying attention to when the new ones came out and then so much time had passed I just forgot. I am seriously inspired to go back and read them all. This is a solid series with great characters. Plus, the author has really built up the world and background and it just works!

Notable Scenes:

“A shiver of awareness went through him.”

“He knows we know just about everythin’ happenin in the bayou.”

“He brought you here, created a reason for escape and a reason for me to come home.”

It had taken three little vipers in jeopardy to open his eyes.”

FTC Advisory: Jove/Penguin provided me with a copy of Viper Game. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review. show less

I love all of the Ghostwalker books. They are some of my favorites. This one was not quite as good as some of the others because so much time was spent in the middle of the book going over the same ground repeatedly. Some of the dialogue is even repeated as if the reader can't remember it having already been said. The story, though, is excellent, and the story opens up the focus for new characters and new stories that I can hardly wait to read.