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** spoiler alert ** So Jayne Anne Krentz and her various pseudonyms are my mindless entertainment. I know four things about the book before I even open it: 1) the heroine will not exactly be beautiful, but she will be sassy and surprisingly insightful about some things (possibly to make up for her total obtuseness regarding her personal life); 2) the hero will not be handsome, but he will be compelling, highly self-controlled, and seemingly cool--he will probably have features that have been "cut out of stone" or something similar; 3)Despite the hero's ability to control everything else in his life, he will be at a loss as to how to stop the force of nature that is the heroine; and 4)as a commercial romance, it will end happily. As you can probably tell, I have a certain affection for the works of this author, possibly because they are heavy on the snarky wordplay and mystery/suspense and light on the sex scenes and drama. While I wouldn't want to read them all the time, they are fun every now and again. That being said, I'm less fond of the Jayne Castle books than I am the Krentz and Quick counterparts. While I enjoy sci-fi and fantasy, I tend to get annoyed at these particular titles because their psychic/paranormal parts don't feel real--an argument that I wouldn't make about her Arcane Society books. While the "ghosts" and "para-psych senses" pervade the entire Harmony/Ghost-hunter series, they feel super-contrived--like she needed something to jazz up the books, and this is what she came up with. My recommendation: if you want to try some of this author's works, try the Arcane Society. They are written under two different names and bounce back and forth from the present (Jayne Anne Krentz) to Victorian England (Amanda Quick). They aren't great literature, but they aren't bad for a couple hours' entertainment.

2023-07-08 07:29