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Summary: Disappointing
Review: If you can swallow the plot that an interior decorator, Zoe Luce, can sense a murder when she enters her clients bedroom, and that she would then pay a PI, Ethan Truax, to investigate when the police have not, maybe you'll enjoy this tale. Of course you have to like underdeveloped and bland main characters and a plot with little suspense and no real fire between the protagonists. If you're a fan wait for the paper back, this one's not worth the price of hard cover.
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Summary: JAK on top again!!
Review: JAK has been one of my favourite writers for nearly two decades. Even in her earliest works you see the diamond brilliance that has put her at the top. However, I was disappointed in some of her recent works. Then she came powering back with the marvellous "Summer in Eclipse Bay" and was SO perfect!! So when "Smoke and Mirrors" came...I went hum....so so but could have been better - much beter. Worse, was her Amanda Quick's "Don't Look Back" so dreadfully dull, that I wanted to howl. Swore I would stop buying her in hardback! And immediately turned around and could not resist buying "Light in Shadow". It just sounded so good....and it IS!!JAK is back in top form providing a warm, humourous, loving mystery that I just could not put down!! It is billed as "A Whispering Springs Novel" so we can except two more I am presuming, and I shall be first in line for the sequels. In this mystery, JAK gives us a Zoe Luce an interior decorator with a special touch: she can "feel emotions" within a room. Currently, she is decorating a house for a new ex-husband, who claims he wants a redo after his wife left him. However, the instant Zoe steps into the bedroom and see the missing bed and shower curtains in the bathroom, she knows he killed his wife. What to do. Zoe cannot go to the police for two reasons:.... She has to do something, so she finds the add for Ethan Truax, a private detective in the town. Sam Spade he is not. He is just coming off his bad third marriage, a failed business and rebuilding his life and career. Truax does what Zoe hires him to do, find the missing wife - dead or alive - but that is just the tip of the iceberg. It's typical JAK yeah, but its JAK at her best, so her fans will dance with job as another of her memorial gems!! Bring on more Whispering Springs novel....Zoe and Ethan steal your heart!!
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Summary: She's done it again.
Review: JAK is on my short list of authors whose books I crave. I go through withdrawal when I finish one of her books and I don't have another to read. Another great story and I assume there will be more. I look forward to JAK tying up Zoe and Ethan's "loose ends" and also seeing if the next story is Arcadia and Harry Stagg or Bonnie and Singleton. One pet peeve I have is that the book was not proof-read very well. Ethan was called Evan at one point and I had to read a few sentences several times to understand what was being said. Minor stuff but...
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Summary: Delightful read
Review: JAK is unbelievably adept at weaving multiple story threads together into a coherent, delightful whole. I have always enjoyed her quirky characters (neither super beautiful nor super rich). The dialog and interactions are realistic without being mundane. The twists and turns in the mysteries kept me engaged without going over the top. And JAK's trademark humor is right on target - I especially enjoyed the contrasting 2 chapters towards the end, one chapter with the 3 female leads discussing marriage, followed by the 3 men on the same topic.
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Summary: Another Jayne winner!
Review: Jayne Ann Krentz is back with another winning combination of suspenceful plot, humor, and delightful primary AND secondary characters. Somehow Krentz manages to weave mythic relational issues (love, trust, commitment, risk, honor, responsibility, family) into a magical blend that leaves you wanting to read more about Whispering Springs and Zoe, Ethan, et al. This one will be a keeper --- go ahead, buy it in hardcover!! --- because she manages to juggle plot elements and keep even seasoned "Jayne" fans (and I've been reading her since the 70s!) guessing about what REALLY happened, and what will happen next!
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Summary: A Good Guilty Pleasure
Review: Jayne Ann Krenz's Light in Shadow is a wonderful guilty pleasure, a romantic thriller that is well-done and compelling. The story of Zoe Luce, an interior designer with a hidden past is light fun reading. I definitely will read Truth or Dare, the sequel to this novel. I am sure it will be as much fun to read as this one. Enjoy.
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Summary: A Good Guilty Pleasure
Review: Jayne Ann Krenz's Light in Shadow is a wonderful guilty pleasure, a romantic thriller that is well-done and compelling. The story of Zoe Luce, an interior designer with a hidden past is light fun reading. I definitely will read Truth or Dare, the sequel to this novel. I am sure it will be as much fun to read as this one. Enjoy.
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Summary: Pretty good, but something was missing
Review: Overall this is a good book, just not up to JAK standards. Zoe Luce is an interior designer who hears the walls scream. If something bad has happened in a room, for example a murder, she can strongly feel it. She's in Whispering Springs, Arizona hiding from her past. Ethan Truax is private investigator new in town. He's had 3 failed marriages, his older brother was murdered, and his business wasleft bankrupt. He recently arrived in Whispering Springs to be closer to his sister-in-law and nephews. His first client: Zoe. I would say sparks started to fly, only they didn't. In the first few chapters, I felt I missed something. After meeting each for the first time the reader is unaware of what they are thinking or feeling. Then it seems to jump to Zoe and Ethan having the hots for each other. This is unlike JAK's usual style. In addition, I think the ending rushed, leaving me feel that I had been left hanging. The killer was obivous, if a little out there.
Maybe the next book will be better.
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Summary: excellent romantic suspense
Review: She is an interior designer who incorporates the principles of feng shui and other New Age ideas when she redesigns a house. Zoe Luce is so popular in Whispering Springs that the wealthy Davis Mason hires her to redo his home. When she walks into the master bedroom she senses that somebody very recently was murdered there and she thinks it was Davis' missing wife. Not wanting to work for a killer, Zoe hires private investigator Ethan Truax to discover what happened to her client's wife. It doesn't take long For Ethan to discover that Davis did indeed murder his wife and he offers to protect Zoe before Davis kills her too. He gets there in time to incapacitate Davis. Zoe and Ethan's relationship is far from over. Somebody knows that Zoe escaped from Candles Lake Manor after being wrongfully committed there by her dead husband's family. Zoe knows that she will somehow flush out the killer who destroyed her life and bring him to justice if Ethan can protect her from the blackmailers and those who will harm her. Jayne Ann Krentz can always be counted on to write an excellent work of romantic suspense and she doesn't disappoint her audience in LIGHT IN SHADOW. The heroine and hero bumble along into a relationship that neither wants to let go of but one in which both are afraid to admit their true feelings. This endears them to the audience who will find them very likable and unpredictable as they jump from the frying pan into the fire as there are two distinct subplots linked by this attractive duo. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Vintage Krentz is back!
Review: The last 6 Krentz books have been less than stellar. But now she's back in stride. Characters you care about, enough of a plot to keep me reading all night--and on a work night yet. Hope the rest of the series are as good as this one.
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