Shadow Rider
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4.4 • 609 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling “queen of paranormal romance” (USA Today) is back with a sexy series starring a Chicago crime family that hides a dark, mystical secret...
Whether it’s fast cars or fast women, Stefano Ferraro gets what he wants. When he’s not fodder for the paparazzi, he commands Ferraro family businesses—both legitimate and illegitimate.
While their criminal activity is simply a rumor yet to be proven, no one knows the real truth. The Ferraros are a family of shadow riders capable of manipulating light and dark, an ability Stefano thought ran in his family alone—until now…
With little left to her name, Francesca Cappello has come to Chicago in hopes of a new life. She wasn’t expecting to attract the attention of a man with primal hunger in his eyes, driven to claim her as his to protect and to please. And if he discovers her secret, it could ruin her...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Feehan (Dark Promises) inflicts an aggressively sexist hero on her hapless heroine in this poorly rendered contemporary paranormal series opener. Set in an utterly generic and implausible rendering of Chicago, the story centers on Francesca Capello, a woman fleeing her tragic past, and Stefano Ferraro, the scion of a wealthy family with a secret they can travel through shadows. Stefano recognizes that Francesca is also a shadow rider and proceeds to take control of her life. Frequently using the excuse that his control is for her safety, Stefano steamrolls Francesca's weak protests and at one point goes so far as to kidnap her from her apartment and force her to move into his penthouse. The plot's attempts to justify Stefano's actions are flimsy, reverting to cartoonish violence so repetitive that the characters comment on it themselves. Even readers interested in an extreme fantasy rendering of a domination/submission relationship are likely to struggle with the unrelenting misogyny thinly cloaked as chivalry.
Customer Reviews
Wonderful characters
This book was like a wonderful roller coaster ride up and down in and out. The characters are great. I particularly like like the brothers and I can’t wait to read their stories.
My favorite Ferraro!
Got to love Stefano! He is obscenely wealthy, gorgeous, intelligent and dangerous! Francesca hit pay dirt by moving to Chicago!
Kept me interested
It was an interesting story, there were a couple parts that could have been edited down and I wasn’t as into the mafia elements or the heavy handedness of the male protagonist. It was good over all and I was sucked in.