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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love her Harmony books!, 7 Jul 2007
JAK has been on my pre-order list for two decades - Jayne Ann Krentz, Amanda Quick and her Jayne Castle paranormals. However, I think JAK's best writing of the last decade has been her Castle books. Amaryllis, Zinnia and Orchid, were sexy, funny and dead on target. The type of books that stays in my mind ten years later. After Dark and After Glow are tied to Ghost Hunter, and just JAK as her very best. Okay, it's "formula". JAK has set patterns and she gravitates toward that, but it's a formula I adore. I simply love her males. They are properly male, bossy, arrogant, love to control everything including the woman in their lives. Naturally, you have the female who wants to be loved for herself, not her family connections.
Elly St. Clair is engaged to the Guild Boss of Aurora Spring, Cooper Boone. Her father and brothers were always involved in the Guild, so naturally they were please when Elly became engaged to Cooper. Getting bridal jitters, she wants Cooper to declare his love and passion, not how suitable they are for marriage. When Cooper doesn't give her the reassurance she needs, fearing he wants her for her connections not love, she breaks off the engagement and moves to Cadence. In the six months past, she'd hope Cooper would come after her, like a dashing knight on a charger. Cooper thinks to give Elly time and she would come back. Boy was he mistaken. She's opened a plant shop and enjoys her life in Cadence.
When Elly contacts Cooper and asks him to help her, he believes she wants to reconcile. That is at the very back of her mind, but her current concern is her friend Bertha is missing down in the alien catacombs, and she needs a Ghost Hunter to save her. Cooper is delighted to get the call. Only, once again, he is combining business and romance as he rides to Elly's rescue of Bertha. There is someone, a Guild hunter, summoning legendary Blue Ghosts in connection to the manufacturing of illegal drugs. Cooper is out to put a stop to the drugs, take down the Ghost Hunter who handles Blue Ghosts, and win his ladylove.
Cooper stole my heart. Elly was properly feisty. Their chemistry sparkles.
Highly recommended along with Amaryllis, Zinnia, Orchid, After Dark and After Glow. It's JAK at the top of her game.
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26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Who ya gonna call?, 25 Jul 2006
Elly St Clair is the (apparently) non psychic daughter of a powerful ghost hunter family based in the small town of Aurora Springs. She's engaged to Cooper Boone, boss of the local ghost hunter Guild until he manages to convince her that he is without doubt the least romantic man of her acquaintance (if the most handsome) and intent only on a political marriage due to her family connections. Elly St Clair returns his ring and heads off to the bright lights of Cadence City where unknown to her a killer is on the prowl. A killer that uses ghost energy to zap his victims, and not any old ghost energy either, but a type of ghost energy previously thought only to exist in myth and legend; blue. Elly, raised in a Guild family, had always assumed that blues and the ghost hunters that could handle them, enforcers, were the stuff only of legend but she's about to find out that Cooper Boone is not what he appears to be. And Cooper is about to discover that there is a whole lot more to Elly St Clair than he ever imagined!
A great story.I loved 'After Glow' and 'After Dark' with Emmett London and Lydia but I like this one even more which I still cannot quite believe. Cooper is a fantastic Hero who starts out very Clark Kent with good reason as you will discover. If you like After Dark, After Glow or Bridal Jitters you'll love this latest ghostbusting tale.
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14 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Duller than ditchwater, 15 Oct 2006
I was a huge fan of Stephanie James back in the 80's, and the plot to this book sounded very similar to the old books, with a heroine who at the begining of the book breaks off her engagement because she feels the workaholic finance is more interested in her family connections and his job, than her. The main difference being that this is set on another world in the future. But there as no spark between the main characters it just seemed like a much duller version of the same old same old. There was too much background info about ghosthunting and not enough romance. I was sorely disappointed, it felt as though Jayne Castle thought she could get away with updating one of her old novels with some futuristic elements. The old magic was missing. Where was the snappy dialogue? Characters that the reader could actually care about? The barely two dimentional characters were an embarassement to her reputation as a good writer.
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