Let’s Review-Obsidian Prey
by on September 2nd, 2009
filed under Book Review
Oh woe is me my bloggy friends.
I have just come off of a bender of two bad books.
And like a bender of bad booze, bad books can leave the same moth ball after taste on your brain and sense of dread when you realize the hero & heroine don’t have any chemistry (much like the scary morning after).
You start to question your sanity. Parts of the book whiz by you like cows on a freeway with no off ramps. And you ask yourself-Did I really read that? Why can’t I find the conflict? Why, oh why should I care about these characters when all I want to do is knock their heads together? Do I need to visit the eye doctor to have my cones checked or is the hero on the cover blond and NOT raven haired?
You don’t feel fresh until you’ve scrubbed your mind clean & brushed your imagination with the minty freshness of a beloved author who always delivers a good story.
Obsidian Preythe 6th book in the Ghost Hunters series by Jayne Castle (aka Jayne Ann Krentz) was my imagination’s Colgate & hair of the dog. God bless Jayne and her reliable story telling. Reading her is like taking a deep breath of relief when you realize that although you’ve just woken up next to a stranger
, you still have your panty hose on.
Two hundred years after the closing of the energy Curtain that allowed interplanetary travel—cutting off all contact to Earth—the planet Harmony is thriving. Thanks to an abundant supply of amber, which powers not only electrical machines for everyday use but also psychic abilities in the colonists, Harmony has created a stable, progressive community. But when that stability is threatened, resolving an ancient family feud and a fresh lover’s quarrel might be the planet’s only hope.
Three months ago, Lyra Dore suffered a heartbreak and a hostile takeover—both at the hands of the same man. A descendant of her ancestors’ fierce rival. Cruz Sweetwater charmed his way into Lyra’s heart and gained access to her pet project, an amethyst ruin. Then he took over the project and took off. When Cruz walks back into her life and requests a private meeting, Lyra convinces herself he’s there to crawl and beg forgiveness. Wrong again—he just needs her help. With the project he stole from her.
Five innocent men are trapped inside a chamber in the amethyst ruin, and Lyra is the only one who can reopen the door. Reluctantly she agrees to help. Then Cruz wants her to apply her talents to the rest of the ruin—because no one else can work it. Lyra and Cruz are both harboring psychic secrets. Unknown—and dangerous—powers pulse within the amethyst ruin, and the closer Lyra gets to them, the more at risk she becomes. And now she must decide whether to trust her guts or her heart…
Now, I have to confess *right hand over heart* I don’t love paranormal books.
Yes, that’s me.
The only person in the whole world who doesn’t get the whole paranormal phenomenon. Vampires & weird fantastical creatures in a bizarre up is down, down is up world is so not my thing. I didn’t get Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Never heard of Firefly and didn’t think Angel was anything more than a stupid Buffy knock off.
But I lurve Jayne Castle’s Harmony Series. I give Obsidian Prey 4 Dust Bunnies & a pulse of psychic energy (read the book & you’ll get it).
Pop on over to my friend Barrie Summy’s blog to check out more wonderful book reviews.
Beth, I relate to your pain about reading a couple of wall-thrower books in a row! Glad you enjoyed this one and reviewed it for us!
I understand your issue. And how do you know? I reviewed on book, kept reading it because I felt it had to get better, plus I didn’t have another book to review. Great post!
Thanks Barrie!
Jenn, I know. I actually finished the first book but only got up to page 214 in the 2nd. I used Obsidian Prey as incentive to abandon it and to get over feeling bad about doing it.
Hi Beth, glad you found a book you can enjoy. I like paranormal and futuristic novels, though I’m not into vampires. FWIW Firefly was Western Science Fiction (Sci Fi with a Western feel) and I luvved it. Obsidion Prey sounds good. Shield’s Lady, written years ago by Krentz under the name Amanda Glass, was a big fave of mine.
Linda
I totally agree about the whole paranormal thing when it comes to vampires and weirdness like that. But I do like time-travel paranormal – or paranormal when somebody communicates with the dead – Barrie’s books are a good example. I’ve read a couple of romances where the paranormal element was a present-day character having a romance with somebody from the past. I get that kind of “paranormal.”
I’ll have to check that one out Linda, thanks! How are you?
Kathy-
I like stories about psychic abilities (like Obsidian Prey) which I guess is considered paranormal. I can stretch my beliefs to ghosts and time travel or futuristic too. Just don’t get crazy on me.
I’m not too big on paranormal either, but I confess I’m curious about the four dust bunnies and the pulse of psychic energy.
Thanks for the review.
Love the review and glad you enjoyed this one.
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