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Sto caricando le informazioni... Guild Bossdi Jayne Castle
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Gabriel Jones rescues Lucy Bell after she was kidnapped, drugged, stripped of her amber, and left underground. Then he goes off to his next job leaving Lucy to deal with the fallout: rumors fly saying she was drunk and took drugs. She's lost her reputation and her career and is now driving a tour bus to make ends meet. When Gabriel returns, Lucy is angry with him, but he needs her skills with managing psychic storms in the underground and also wants a chance to get to know her better. An arcane object brought from Earth has been stolen and he has the skills to track it down - with Lucy's help. Meanwhile, other plots are unfolding and Lucy is needed for all of them. When a second kidnapping attempt is made and attempts are made on Gabriel's life since he's the new, and first, Guild Boss in Illusion Town, the two begin investigating to protect themselves and restore Lucy's reputation. The dust bunny in this one is Otis. He finds Lucy when she is lost underground and brings her pizza to live on. Later he leads Gabriel to her. I liked the relationship between Lucy and Gabriel. The plot was twisty enough to keep me reading late into the night. There were also a number of Easter Eggs that brought reminders of earlier books in the Arcane series for readers who have read them. All in all, this was a fun addition to both the Arcane series and the Harmony series. For some reason, I really liked this story. I usually complain about the sameness of her books but this one didn't bother me as much. I like her books because they are fast to read, the dialog is good, and in the Harmony books, the world building is good. However, she still has the awful tendency to have her villain(s) explain the plot at the end of the book. I they didn't stop to do that, they might have lived longer. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Fantasy.
Fiction.
Romance.
Science Fiction.
HTML:Welcome to Illusion Town on the colony world of Harmonyâ??like Las Vegas on Earth, but way more weird. Living in this new, alien world doesnâ??t stop the settlers from trying to re-create what theyâ??ve left behind. Case in pointâ??weddings are still the highlight of any social calendar. But itâ??s the after-party that turns disastrous for Lucy Bell. Kidnapped and drugged as she leaves the party, she manages to escapeâ??only to find herself lost in the mysterious, alien underground maze of glowing green tunnels beneath Illusion Town. Sheâ??s been surviving on determination and cold pizza, scavenged for her by a special dust bunny, when help finally shows up. Gabriel Jones is the Ghost Hunter sent to rescue her, but escaping the underground ruins isnâ??t the end of her troublesâ??itâ??s only the beginning. With no rational reason for her abduction, and her sole witness gone on another assignment for the Guild, whispers start circulating that Lucy made it all up. Soon her life unravels until she has nothing left but her pride. The last thing she expects is for Gabriel Jones to come back to town for her. The Lucy that Gabriel finds is not the same woman he rescued, the one who looked at him as if he were her hero. This Lucy is sharp, angry, and more than a little cynicalâ??instead of awe, she treats him with extreme caution. But a killer is still hunting her, and there arenâ??t a lot of options when it comes to heroes. Despite her wariness, Gabriel is also the one person who believes Lucyâ??after all, he was there. Heâ??s determined to help clear her reputation, no matter what it takes. And as the new Guild Boss, his word is law, Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Yeah that was a lot of words I threw at you, but its all sort of necessary to understand how this works.
This being how interconnected all of Castle' (or Jayne Anne Krentz/Amanda Quick)'s series have become despite being across at least three different time periods/romance categories.
The Harmony books are by far my favorite series of hers. They're snappy paranormal scifi romances that trend towards clever, reaourceful and POWERFUL women with a denseness in the romance department that would normally make me groan, but instead makes sense. Meanwhile the men are all rogues with bad senses of humor, hearts of gold and sharp intellect that largely want to support the women without controlling them. The world of Harmony is, honestly, pretty cut and dry. While solutions can be a bit gray-scaled, the people are either good or bad. The good save folk, the bad leave folk to die horrible deaths lost in the underground labyrinth of alien psy-ghosts.
This is no different; though our male lead (Gabriel) is kind of an idiot (which he does realize pretty quickly) in regards to first impressions with our heroine Lucy (who tells him so happily and often).
It may have been a while for me, but this seemed abnormally interested in setting up the mystery to solve than with the romance. The heat is there, the awareness of each other, but they spend more time chasing down antique thieves and dodging assassins then making out.
Still this was a wonderful return to a world I sorely miss and makes me hopeful there will be more in the future (my humor is as bad as a Guild Boss' okay?). ( )