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.
genre, genre, genre
by on April 30th, 2008
filed under Undecided
On one of my many ebay purchases I bought a box full of paperback books and I’ve been slowly working my way through them in between the new releases. Last week I read my first paranormal romance novel by Jayne Castle aka Jayne Ann Krentz, who is one of my very favorite authors. Normally paranormal is not my thing. A little psychic ability is OK but I just haven’t been that interested in anything beyond that. But that book surprised me. I really enjoyed it. And as it happened I had the sequel as well, so I read and loved it too.
I should have known this would happen. It’s just like what happened when I started to read historical romances. It started with one little innocent Regency by Catherine Coulter (another of my very favorite authors) and mushroomed from there to include westerns, Gothic and every other kind of historical romance ever written. And it happened again after I read my friend Lyndi Lamont’s erotic ebook Love By the Book, I started to not only buy ebooks but erotica as well.
Now I have a whole new genre to pursue. Those books really opened up another world and I can just hear DH now, cursing under his breath about the huge box from Barnes & Noble that should arrive any day now…
Have you been surprised by a book genre that you were positive you wouldn’t like but ended up loving it? Is there a genre you haven’t read but would like to?
