Overall Rating: 4.95
Action: 4.0 / Emotion: 4.5 / Romance: 4.5 / Sensuous: 2.0 / Suspense: 4.0 // Laughter: 2 / Giggle: 2 // Tears: 1 / Teary: 2

A Stranger's Game: 4.95:
This is the kind of Romantic Suspense book that is such a joy to read. This un-put-down-able book was filled with plenty of action, suspense, and romance and a hero and heroine that melted your heart.

Hero: 4.5:
Breed Grayhawk: Love his self-reliance. His appearance. His confidence. His intelligence. The way he responded to Grace on page 279.

Heroine: 4.5:
Grace Elizabeth Caldwell / Merle Raye Finkel: Love her strength. Her intelligence. Her willingness to correct a grievous wrong. The way her heart softened towards Breed.

Secondary Hero: 4.5:
Jack McKinley: Jack won my heart in The Next Mrs. Blackthorne and won't let it go. Love his belief in right and wrong. The way he treats Kate and her twin sons. That he still takes his mother's call in spite of washing his hands of his father.

Secondary Heroine: 4.5:
Kate Grayhawk Pendleton: Kate has finally matured. She is no longer a happy-go-lucky teen who jumps in with both feet without worrying about the consequences. Love the way she loves her family, particularly her twin sons.

Story Line: 4.5:
Johnston did a great job of weaving a lot of different colored threads in the tapestry of this story. A convicted double murderer pairing up with a FBI agent to prove she was wrongly blamed. A Texas Ranger and the same FBI agent helping to protect the president and state governors due to a security threat. A growing romance between Breed and Grace and details about the continuing roadblocks to the romance between Jack and Kate.

Action: 4.0:
Johnston kept this story moving at a quick pace because it seemed something exciting was always going on. Grace trying to clear her name. Breed looking for Grace. The killer trying to stop them both. A threat to the politicians at LBJ Auditiorium.

Emotion: 4.5:
Johnston did a great job of grabbing the reader's emotions, starting with the prologue. It was impossible not to feel great compassion for little Merle Raye . . . and later Grace. Breed had already won hearts when he appeared in the previous book of the series. Johnston's story brought forth laughter and tears.

Romance: 4.5:
The attraction and awareness between the two couples in this book was always obvious and not overshadowed by the plot.

Sensuous: 2.0:
Johnston has a way of writing understated love scenes that are very sensual, without being graphically explicit.

Suspense: 4.0:
The suspense was top-notch, leaving the reader tightly wound, wondering what twist and turn the story was going to take next.

Secondary Characters: 4.5:
Johnston always inserts interesting and well-developed supporting characters in her books. In this book the supporting characters that drew great interest (some more than others) included: {1} Vincent "Vince" Harkness; {2} Stephanie Harkness; {3} Craig Westwood; {4} King Grayhawk; {5} Ann Wade Pendleton; {6} J.D. Pendleton; {7} Troy McMahon; {8} Harry Gunderson; {9} Frank McKinley; {10} Steve; {11} Lucky Pendleton; and {12} Chance Pendleton. Cameo appearances were made by: {1} Jackson "Blackjack" Blackthorne; {2} Lauren "Ren" Creed Blackthorne; {3} Clay Blackthorne; and {4} Libby Blackthorne.

A more in-depth, detailed, spoiler-ridden review of A Stranger's Game appears at Wolf Bear Does Books (http://goo.gl/mOk7eC). ( )

Another "LT early review book" , I understand that this book is from a series, and it is also the first Joan Johnston book I have read. But with a open mind when starting this novel, I greatly enjoyed it. I liked the way it left you wanting more, with all the dirty little secrets, the murder story, the lies and the betrayel. On that note I will most deffinatly have to catch up on the other books... ( )