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Summary: Interesting, educational and romantic, too
Review: I really enjoyed meeting this couple...the aloof glass queen and the down-to-earth PI. I'd like to visit with them again. Jane, yes?Set in an interesting area of the states. Lots of local color. Against that backdrop, the mystery was woven with great care.
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Summary: Engaging characters, fun story, but a few failings here
Review: I really found the hero and heroine to be believable, the storyline was interesting, and the setting was really fun to read about. There were, however, a few major problems with the story, which I found distracting. In the style of "Scooby-Doo", the "bad guy" confesses all, and long drawn out conversations ensue -- all while the "bad guy" is holding the gun and we're waiting for him to pull the trigger. I find this particularly irritating in a story. Maybe criminals actually do confess all and engage in an interview with their intended victims about their motivations and how they did what they did, just before they plan to kill them, but it doesn't seem real to me. I had the feeling that the writer was taking the easy way out of unfolding a rather complicated story by letting the criminal spill the beans this way. I was also a bit disturbed by the ease the main characters had in falling into bed with one another. There wasn't enough sexual tension, and the whole sex thing seemed just a bit too casual for my taste. Because of the backgrounds of both the hero and heroine, I felt that there was a whole lot of depth to these characters that I never got to see, which was disappointing. Krentz does have a strong talent -- the writing is smooth, but it seems as though she rushed through this story, and brushed over some failings in the plot. This is the 2nd story by her that I've read -- I'm intrigued enough to keep reading, I am sure she is capable of writing some very good stories, even though this one was a bit disappointing.
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Summary: Pretty good!
Review: I really liked the storylines of the man who is family oriented,but deep down is warm,but cold to the general public. However,I liked the idea of a museum collector and a pi whose shirts are so loud,they should be outlawed(ha)
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Summary: Good, but still missing something
Review: I was excited about this book, because the beginning of it (published behind Deep Waters) seems to be a return to JAK's (and AQ's) normal style, which I think is great. (I do vastly prefer the Quick stories). But I was sad to discover that although this is a pretty good book, it still seems that you are watching the story through a dark, cloudly glass. Her earlier stories made you feel right in the thick of things. I don't care about the "formula" angle of these plots, the formula works great for me. I do want to care more about the characters, however. Ms. Krentz is still about the best Romance writer around. The sad part is that she could be (and has been) so much better! Please slow down. I would pay double for book I wanted to read many times over. None of the recent ones have qualified.
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Summary: A bit too abridged in the audio version
Review: In this story by Jayne Ann Krentz I think that the Audio version (3 hr abridged) is a bit to abridged. I felt like I was missing part of the story at times! but, the overall story did still ragte a 4. Eugenia Swift is caught up in a mystery when she goes to catalogue a glass collection for the museum that she works for. Along comes Adam - posing as her assistant but he is really investigating the loss of a valuable glass piece that disappeared from his protection years ago while he was transporting it. Then again Eugenia is not only cataloguing the glass but she is trying to figure out why a fiend of hers has been killed... and she is not even sure that she is really dead.... Both are lead along a merry chase with many different twists and turns and they end up helping each other in the end...
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Summary: A bit too abridged in the audio version
Review: In this story by Jayne Ann Krentz I think that the Audio version (3 hr abridged) is a bit to abridged. I felt like I was missing part of the story at times! but, the overall story did still ragte a 4. Eugenia Swift is caught up in a mystery when she goes to catalogue a glass collection for the museum that she works for. Along comes Adam - posing as her assistant but he is really investigating the loss of a valuable glass piece that disappeared from his protection years ago while he was transporting it. Then again Eugenia is not only cataloguing the glass but she is trying to figure out why a fiend of hers has been killed... and she is not even sure that she is really dead.... Both are lead along a merry chase with many different twists and turns and they end up helping each other in the end...
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Summary: TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE FROM TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS!
Review: Jayne Ann Krentz has created another fabulous romantic suspense Novel! Eugenia's friend, Nellie, had supposedly committed suicide near Frog Cove Island, due to grief over the accidental death of her lover. However, Eugenia did not believe it was suicide. Eugenia suspected murder. When Adam Daventry died he left his entire glass collection to the museum Leabrook. Eugenia went to Daventry's house on Frog Cove Island to catalogue the pieces and look into Nellie's death.
Cyrus Colfax was a private investigator. While delivering a valuable glass piece of art, called the Hades Cup, his partner, Damien March, stole it. Cyrus was shot and left for dead. Cyrus' wife, Katy, knew too much and was killed.
After three years Cyrus had traced the Hades Cup to Frog Cove Island in his search for Damien and revenge. He used Eugenia to get there. Now it was a hunt a long lost glass work of art, before everyone dies.
***Exciting! Krentz is one of my favorite authors! Worth buying in hardback to keep forever.***
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Summary: ANOTHER WINNER!!!
Review: Krentz has done it again. I love everything this book had to offer, love, humor, intrigue, suspense, danger and definitely great sex. I loved Cyrus and Eugenia. They are a fantastic couple. You'll love this book. Trust me!
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Summary: Why do these guys all drive Jeeps?
Review: Krentz is getting a little laid back about her formula here. Even though the premise of a "glass museum" and the "Hades Cup" were interesting, I think that there were just too many nefarious goings-on in the art world for this story to be believable. Krentz seems to have left out the secondary characters which usually make her novels so much more interesting. It was very much an average read. Not very bad, but then again not all that very good. One would do better to go back and read earlier novels by Krentz.
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Summary: Typically JAK - great fun!
Review: Okay, JAK is not long in originality. You know that going in, if you are looking for totally different characters, don't think you ever will find them in her body of work. One might call her a one trick pony, but it is a very well trained pony and you really don't mind watching again and again, despite the different finery and feathers she dresses the pony in. So if you buy a JAK, don't complain because you see the same pattern...you KNOW that is what you buying. That said.... It is a fun book, with JAK wonderful quirky writing. I mean, when her character takes one look at the Private Investigator Cyril Chandler Colfax and thinks "She wondered what the penalty was for strangling very large men who wore tacky aloha shirts, khaki chinos and moccasin-style loafers. Surely no judge or jury would convict her, she thought. Not when they saw the evidence." Well, you know the romance is off to a rocky start!!! Eugenia Swift is a sensible young woman, a connoisseur of beautiful art, a very elegant woman. She has been asked to go to Frog Cove Island, and artistic Haven outside of Seattle. She is to go there to catalogue the art collection of Adam Daventry. Only, she is forced to take Colfax as a body guard, much to her dismay. The dismay increases to horror, when Colfax insists they pose as lovers while on the island. This does not sit well will Eugenia, because she is going there not only to catalogue the artworks, but to find out what happened to her friend, Nellie Grant, the late Adam's Daventry's lover. She thinks the green-eyed Colfax (green this time - you get green, grey or amber....lol) might crimp her investigation into Nellie's death. What she does not understand, Colfax is on a trek to avenge an old wrong. Eugenia has always keep her emotions on the shelf, putting everything into her career, but it soon becomes evident, that their lives will depend on them playing convincing lovers. JAK delivers her usual spunky heroine who tries to run circles around the deceptively deep male...and does it with style.
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