Thunder Game

Inviting and edgy

THUNDER GAME is the twentieth instalment in Christine Feehan’s contemporary, adult GHOSTWALKERS paranormal, romance series focusing on an elite group 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. The original GhostWalkers struggled without a female anchor, a female whose genetic and enhanced powers were often in tandem with the men involved. This is Diego Campos, and Leila Fenton’s story line. THUNDER GAME can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual omniscient third person perspectives (Leila & Diego) THUNDER GAME follows Team Four GW Diego Campos as he returns to his home in the Appalachian Mountains where he reconsiders the direction of his life. Sensing other enhanced soldiers nearby, Diego will find himself in a firefight and rescue of the woman with whom he will fall in love. Leila Fenton had been a prisoner and a test subject of General Phil Chariot, but her younger sister Bridget was struggling with the abuse performed by Dr. Peter Whitney. Desperate to save her sister, Leila left a part of herself behind in Chariot’s compound, taking refuge with a great uncle in the Appalachian Mountains but our couple will find themselves defending against several enhanced teams of soldiers, many of whom were battling the enhancements themselves.

The world building follows the rapidly building relationship between Diego and Leila as our couple must defend themselves against the enhanced soldiers sent to destroy their lives. One of Diego’s abilities is revealed, something with which he struggles to come to terms in the face of emotional and physical abuse as a child. A powerful GhostWalker, Diego’s low sense of self-esteem is the antithesis of the usually confident super soldier.

The relationship between Diego and Leila begins as a rescue but one of immediate attraction. Although the author has altered and revised some of the enhancements and ‘fated mate’ qualities as the series develops, Diego knows Leila is the woman that calls to his heart. And similarly to his brother Ruben Campo’s story line LIGHTNING GAME, there is little to no focus on the sexual needs and wants of our story line hero. There is one-lone, tepid $ex scene, only warranting a few sentences in the story.

There is another large ensemble cast of enterprising, familiar, supernatural and powerful secondary and supporting characters including several members of Diego’s GhostWalkers Team Four who are determined to protect their brother: Ezekiel (Bellisia), Mordichai and Malichai Fortunes, Colonel Joe Spagnola, Gino Mazzo (Zara), Wyatt and Pepper Fontenot, and everybody’s favorite grandmother Nonny Fontenot: Logan Maxwell (Team Two), and Trap Dawkins, whom the author seeks to remind the reader at every opportunity of Dawkins neurodiversity, in the face of the negativity and backlash of Trap’s book VIPER GAME. We are introduced to General Phil Chariot, another career military officer determined to create his own team of super soldiers; Leila’s sister Bridget, and their great uncle Luther. The requisite evil has many faces

THUNDER GAME is a partly introspective look at one man’s struggle with his life and the choices he has made; a story of power and control, betrayal and action, family and friendships, relationships and love . The premise is inviting and edgy; the characters are animated and dynamic; the romance is limited but passionate.