THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERChristine Feehan returns to her scorching-hot series starring a Chicago crime family that has built its empire in the shadows… Billionaire playboy Ricco Ferraro knows no other life. Being a shadow rider is in his blood—but so is a haunting desperation stemming from the secrets of his dark past. His recklessness puts not only his life at risk, but also the future … life at risk, but also the future of his entire family. To save them all, he must find a woman who can meet his every desire with a heat all her own…
Just when Ricco has given up hope, he meets her—a mysterious woman whose shadow connects with his. She’s someone looking for a safe haven from the danger that has stalked her over the last several months. In Ricco’s embrace, she finds one. But the darkness in which they so often find sanctuary can also consume them…
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The Ghostwalkers world is a gray one, but one filled with love, and even perfection. BUT…THE Ghostwalkers are always on the run, and always on the lookout for the next big problem…enter a world of supernatural supersoldiers who protect the world from dangers it doesnt even know exist…and the extraordinary women, who each has their own personal power, and you will NOT want to leave!
This series is like no other series I’ve ever read. Christine Feehan is really good about coming up with something so unique. Shadow Riders series have all been good. If you love Christine you will love this series!
Christine’s first books were fantastic. The later ones including this one were overly loaded with statistics she makes up, and very confusing. When this takes away from the great story line I get frustrated. So many made up statistics do not make me love the book
I love this book alot. This series is one of her best.
A book full to the brim of suspense and danger. So much more so than the first of this series. I’ll admit that when I saw the words rope play I was worried I’d be skipping a lot of 50 shades scenes. However, I learned something new about it and it being a nonsexual art form. I enjoyed learning more about the history of he riders and the other families. This is a steamy romance.
A great paranormal romance series
I have all in the series but Emmies book. She deserves to final get her man. Can’t wait for this one to come out. Great series.
I love the whole series. This one is no different.
Great reading
LOVE LOVE LOVE! as I said, absolutely loved this book. Ricco has made I’m my list of book boyfriends. can’t wait to continue on with the series.
I absolutely loved the first book in the series so I was very excited to read SHADOW REAPER. While I liked the story, I didn’t really like Ricco and Mariko. I felt that their relationship developed too fast and was missing something. I had a difficult time liking them. They weren’t written badly, I think it boils down to the phrase: “It’s not them, it’s me.”
I did enjoy the storyline very much and I am hoping against hope that Emme’s (the only Ferraro sister) book is next! She has a complicated past with one of the characters in this, and the previous book. A sort of Romeo & Juliet/West Side Story kind of vibe that I’m DYING to find out more about!
I definitely think readers will enjoy the book. Please don’t let my nit-picky hangups about Ricco and Mariko stop you from taking a chance on this exceptional and exciting book! SHADOW REAPER can be read as a standalone but I’d recommend you check out book 1, SHADOW RIDER, first. Stefano is super dreamy!
***I voluntarily read a Net Galley copy of the book in June 2017 in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and feelings are my own***
I love the dynamics in this family and how they interact together.
I also appreciated we get a much better explanation of how the shadow riding is done and how it feels.
Apart from three points outlined below, I found the story flowed well and kept me reading (though I skimmed over all the overlong sex/hibachi scenes).
What had happened when Ricco was training in Japan was unbelievable. I do know the Japanese honour system is strong but those families were cowards of the highest order, as was proven by how they died.
Ricco is another manwhore but I am starting to understand how this is happening and the reasoning for it. Not to say I like it but the job these riders are doing is harsh.
Did like that his reputation did come back to bite him on the butt as Stefano warned him it would.
Liked Mariko and felt sorry for what had been done to her and her family. Really great that she is another female rider.
The ending with Mariko’s brother was a great twist and I will be honest and say one I did not expect.
Nao‘s obsession with Ricco just didn’t gel with me on quite a few levels but insanity knows no borders.
For all that was really enjoyable about this book a couple of things stopped me loving it.
1- Why did we get that unneeded bit with the husband Peter the cheater. Are we supposed to like him all of a sudden, because when he was facing death, whilst with one of his mistresses mind, he realised he loved his wife?
2- Eloise once again spewed her vitriol and suddenly her children, that she has never mothered, gather around her, never mind the nastiness she threw at Mariko. I am not sure if we are supposed to feel sorry for her because her cheating husband died. I don’t at all, she made her bed and laid in it enough times to have FIVE children.
3- Why Mariko ever thought Osuma had any feelings for her was weak. No one could treat a child like that and have a heart. I can understand her wish to be loved but she is not exactly a child now and has had long enough to realise how nasty Osuma is.
Creative concept with great characters!
Can’t say enough about Christine Feehans books. I wait impatiently for her books to come out and read them as soon as I get them. Shadow Reaper was no different. Characters grip you immediately and you want immediate justice for the heroine. Love this family.
Ricco likes fast women and fast cars, well actually he likes the fast cars, but he’s bored with the playboy lifestyle. He wants what his brother Stefano has, but he knows he won’t find that special woman. He has particular tastes, but he’s beginning to take silly risks, and after a nearly fatal accident, Ricco knows he has to do something…..
Mariko is a woman on a mission, she has to kill Ricco within 2 weeks, or her beloved brother will die (he’s been kidnapped, and Mariko doesn’t know where he is)
Ricco has the same sensation his brother Stefano has upon meeting Francesca, an unlocking sensation in the region of his heart. This model that he interviews is the woman he’s been waiting for.
Together they find a common ground, shibari (a form of rope tying) he likes to tie people up, and photograph them, and Mariko has found the art form beautiful, she wants to experience it for herself, her mother was a rope model, but Ricco frightens her, she’s worried that he will consume her, but as the trust grows, she wants to be his, she wants to walk by his side, forever ……
The second book in the series has us meeting the second oldest brother Ricco, he is an adrenaline junkie, but a near accident almost ends his life. He’s rope tying keeps him grounded, so he looks for a model, no one really interests him until his shadow “connects” with Mariko.
But Mariko is hiding a secret, and one that could change their relationship.
We also find out about both Mariko’s and Ricco’s past. Both have had it rough, so together they can heal each other.
This is a 6 star book. Read in one setting. Awesome read.
Loved it.can’t wait for any book she writes.
Great series.
Ricco and Mirako are both a revered shadow rider. Ricco has reached the point he can feel nothing. Mirako was raised in a abusive home, her adoptive mother, where her brother was turned against her. She meets Ricco but its not a chance meeting. What is she there for?
Great new plot line. Fabulous characters