Silver Snare (Silhouette Promo)

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Summary: Jayne Ann Krentz (aka Stephanie James) is great!
Review: I have read all of "Stephanie James'" books and while they are similar in many ways, I always learn something interesting and I always enjoy her books. A good read, always!

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Summary: sorry this really left me cold
Review: I utterly adore Jayne Ann and have all her books, but many of the Stephanie James were fading yellow and falling apart, so I was delighted when Silhouette began putting this SJ's out at a reason price.

But this one just really made me almost hate the female lead. Starts off interesting. She is on a plane that crashes. A high powered business executive with a hotel chain, she is used to giving orders and having every one follow. However, from the first, Lucas Kinkaid declares he is the leader. Quickly, he pulls her aside and explains in order for them and the others to survive, there has to be one leader and that is him. She grudginly backs down and accepts his alpha male leader role, even to the point of surrending herself to him the night before they are rescued.

But she sees the surrender, the fact she gave up the power to snap her fingers and have people jump as a deep wound, and when Lucan comes to find her again, she makes him PAY. When he follows her on board a cruise ship, she coldblooded sets about to have an affair with him, just so she can put a chokechain about his neck and yank it everytime she wants him to come to heel. She is arrogant, smug and condescending. She sneers at the fact he eats steak and pototoes, is not a polished dancer, owns a pet store and wear cheap polyester pants, while she dresses in designer clothes, loves lobster and brie and its quite at home in the penthouse of the cruise liner. She spends nearly half of the book making this poor guy jump through hoops just to salvage her ego and frankly, I just really did not empathise or care about this woman. And I seriously wondered just what he saw in her.

Jayne's talent as a writer is the only thing that makes this one readable. She is a joy with the written word, but this one just really turn me off.

There are so many great JAK's out there, so unless you are into a woman that not only wants to walk on a man with spike heels, she wants to grind them in cruelly just to prove 'she can handle him'..... forget it and try Wildest Hearts or Absolutely Positively....you will have a much better time.

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Summary: Not her best, but a pleasant tale....
Review: The Silver Snare introduces us to Jessie and Lucas and the concept of being out of control. Unfortunately, I found myself with little sympathy for Jessie, who was having enormous difficulty dealing with her need for Lucas versus her need to be in control. I wanted her to either tell him to get lost or take him to bed - don't dither about. Of course, if she had, there would have been no story! So I guess this means that the plot here had some loose fibers and the characters didn't quite involve me enough to overlook them. If you like romance, start with vintage Jayne Ann Krentz (try "Deep Waters") instead of her earlier Stephanie James novels. Once your taste for Krentz has developed then come back to these earlier books - the beginnings of her writing style are clear and fascinating to discover!