Also repetitious are the many foreplay scenes between Rico and Mariko. Unfortunately, Feehan indulges in her bad habit of repetition: endlessly repeating - sometimes word for word - the horrifying scenes from Marika's childhood and the gruesome details of the scene in which she and Rico first met. (I can't tell you any more than that because I don't want to give away any spoilers.) As the truth of that encounter comes out, we get wave upon wave of angst-filled interior monologues as both characters deal with the emotional fallout that has tormented them for so long. Rico was in a shadow-rider training program, and his initial introduction to Mariko came under horrendous circumstances that have haunted them both ever since. Threading through this sexual montage is a story line that reaches back to a time in Japan when Rico was a teenager and Mariko Majo was just a toddler. In typical Feehan fashion, she constructs the plot around the romance, with the first two-thirds of the book featuring scene after scene of simmering foreplay and the final third culminating in a lengthy consummation scene followed by more graphic bedroom athletics. In Ricco’s embrace, she finds one.īut the darkness in which they so often find sanctuary can also consume them.

She’s someone looking for a safe haven from the danger that has Ricco has given up hope, he meets her-a mysterious woman whose shadow connects To save them all, he must find a woman who can meet his every desire Recklessness puts not only his life at risk, but also the future of his entireįamily.

Haunting desperation stemming from the secrets of his dark past. Being a shadow rider is in his blood-but so is a

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