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Renaissance Man
Rare book dealer Alina Corey decided to live like the heroine of her favorite Renaissance book, presiding over a court of glittering literati, a witty distance from love. It worked - until Jared Troy, a combative history scholar she knew only through his letters, suddenly appeared in the flesh, challenging her to a passion as grand as her dreams. Jared's powers of persuasion were formidable - and his talents were incredible. With words of passion and touches of fire, he slowly seduced her - mind, body, and soul.
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Stephanie James
46 books148 followersJayne Ann Castle was born on 28 March 1948 in Borrego Springs, California. Her mother, Alberta Castle, raised her with her two brothers, Stephen and James. In 1970, she obtained a B.A in History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and later she obtained a Masters degree in Library Science from San Jose State University, where she met Frank Krentz, an engineer. After her graduation, they married and moved to the Virgin Islands. She worked in the Duke University library system, where she began to write her first romance novels. The marriage moved to Seattle, Washington, where they continue living.
Now, Jayne Ann Castle Krentz with her seven pennames is considered a pillar in the contemporary romance genre. For some years, she only uses three pennames for each of three different periods from time: "Jayne Ann Krentz" (her married name) from the present, "Jayne Castle" (her birth name) from the future and her most famous penname: "Amanda Quick" from the past. She is famous for her work ethic, beginning her writing by 7 am six days a week. Her heroins never are damsels in hardships, they are often heroes. Her novels also contain mystery or paranormal elements.
Enthusiastic of the romantic genre, she has always defended its importance. To help educate the public about the romantic genre she became the editor and a contributor to Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance, a non-fiction essay collection that won the prestigious Susan Koppelman Award for Feminist Studies. She established the Castle Humanities Fund at UCSC's University Library to allow the library to purchase additional books and has given money to 15 Seattle-area elementary schools to enhance their library budgets. She is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Writers Programs at the University of Washington extension program.
Psuedonyms:
Jayne Ann Krentz
Amanda Quick
Jayne Castle
Jayne Bentley
Jayne Taylor
Amanda Glass
Now, Jayne Ann Castle Krentz with her seven pennames is considered a pillar in the contemporary romance genre. For some years, she only uses three pennames for each of three different periods from time: "Jayne Ann Krentz" (her married name) from the present, "Jayne Castle" (her birth name) from the future and her most famous penname: "Amanda Quick" from the past. She is famous for her work ethic, beginning her writing by 7 am six days a week. Her heroins never are damsels in hardships, they are often heroes. Her novels also contain mystery or paranormal elements.
Enthusiastic of the romantic genre, she has always defended its importance. To help educate the public about the romantic genre she became the editor and a contributor to Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance, a non-fiction essay collection that won the prestigious Susan Koppelman Award for Feminist Studies. She established the Castle Humanities Fund at UCSC's University Library to allow the library to purchase additional books and has given money to 15 Seattle-area elementary schools to enhance their library budgets. She is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Writers Programs at the University of Washington extension program.
Psuedonyms:
Jayne Ann Krentz
Amanda Quick
Jayne Castle
Jayne Bentley
Jayne Taylor
Amanda Glass
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December 31, 2020
A 500 year old tale tells the story of a beloved italian Courtesan with the name Battista who falls in love with the only man who ever challenged her, the condottiere Francesco.He left her broken hearted to go off to war but comes back to steal her away from her lover one year later and kills him off in a duel.After that we don`t know what happens,but in Stephanie James (aka Jayne Ann Krentz) "Renaissance Man" 500 years later they get reincarnated.Now Battista is reborn as a opinionated book dealer Alina Corey while Francesco becomes the lonely and arrogant modern businessman Jared Troy.Both are obsessed with the legend of Battista and Francesco but have very different opinions about the story and angrily correspond through letter in three months before Jared gets the courage to see for himself if she is the love of his life and he falls like fire-works for her when he first sees her on that party.Now he has to convince her that they belong together.
This author never disappoints me in the least because i end up loving all her characters and stories.This book is another unforgettable keeper with awesome characters like Jared and Alina to present this story.They are soulmates reborn and it was so beautiful and sweet watching Jared woo Alina and capture her heart and soul.The love-confession just made me tear up by the end because as arrogant and smug Jared was for making her surrender he was all along so very much vulnerable when it came to her feelings and after a very much lonely past he really needed to be everything for Alina as she was for him.It was just so wonderful,its very likely that i will re-read this book again!!
This author never disappoints me in the least because i end up loving all her characters and stories.This book is another unforgettable keeper with awesome characters like Jared and Alina to present this story.They are soulmates reborn and it was so beautiful and sweet watching Jared woo Alina and capture her heart and soul.The love-confession just made me tear up by the end because as arrogant and smug Jared was for making her surrender he was all along so very much vulnerable when it came to her feelings and after a very much lonely past he really needed to be everything for Alina as she was for him.It was just so wonderful,its very likely that i will re-read this book again!!
April 5, 2020
"Can’t you guess? Don’t you know you’re the one person who can fill the empty places in my life? More than that, you’re the one person capable of making me realize what it is to be lonely. I need you. I want you. I won’t be satisfied until I have you. All of you. There is nothing else I can say, no simpler way of expressing it My need is so great that it took me three months to work up the courage to come and get you. The fear of finding out that the woman I had come to know through her letters didn’t really exist was paralyzing. But when you opened that door last night, I knew she was real.“
Swoon!
"Renaissance Man" is the story of Alina and Jared.
A passionate love story between a rare book dealer and history scholar, which begins with three month sparring via letters, and ends in a heartwarming HEA. Both are obsessed with the Renaissance era, especially with the mysteriously unhappy love story Francesco and Battista, and soon find themselves in their shoes.
Extreme obsessed H, tempestuous h, crazy dramatic lust and smoking hot lovemaking, angst, crazy jealousy, fiery fights and sexy makeups- it had it all- mixed with a secondary plot of a stolen tape. The couple were equally volatile as well as smart, and perfectly suited for each other as they complimented each other so well.
I LOVED IT- even when it became to cheesy at the end.
Safe
4.75/5
Swoon!
"Renaissance Man" is the story of Alina and Jared.
A passionate love story between a rare book dealer and history scholar, which begins with three month sparring via letters, and ends in a heartwarming HEA. Both are obsessed with the Renaissance era, especially with the mysteriously unhappy love story Francesco and Battista, and soon find themselves in their shoes.
Extreme obsessed H, tempestuous h, crazy dramatic lust and smoking hot lovemaking, angst, crazy jealousy, fiery fights and sexy makeups- it had it all- mixed with a secondary plot of a stolen tape. The couple were equally volatile as well as smart, and perfectly suited for each other as they complimented each other so well.
I LOVED IT- even when it became to cheesy at the end.
Safe
4.75/5
April 20, 2020
A simple case of vocabulary failure has delayed this review by more than two months. I surrender.
The hero and heroine originally meet by corresponding in a history journal about a tempestuous pair of 15th-century Italian lovers. Battista was a courtesan who hosted noted cultural/intellectual salons and Francesco was a condottiere. Even though Francesco didn't meet Battista's usual aristocratic standards for her lovers, he seduced her before going off to fight some Medici war. While he was gone, she continued with her sophisticated parties and paying lovers. When he returned from his latest campaign, Battista barred the doors of her villa to him, and the H/h disagree about what must have happened next.
So the hero and heroine identify a lot with these (fictional) historical figures. They compare themselves, each other, and their relationship to Francesco and Battista. They first meet in person when the hero "invades" a "salon" (crashes a party) being hosted by the heroine, who has modeled her social life after Battista...minus the paying lovers, one presumes.
I feel like there's a pithy phrase to describe this type of direct comparison, but it eludes me. It isn't reincarnation. It isn't roleplaying. It's...argh!
The first 50% of the book establishes the similarities between our protagonists and their historical idols, explaining that the hero (a successful self-educated investor who collects rare books on Renaissance military history) became obsessed with the heroine (a bookseller who deals in rare books) during their heated correspondence about the lovers. So when the heroine used the hero's name to get access to letters about Francesco and Battista stored in another collector's library, the hero took the opportunity to storm her castle.
After they sleep together, the heroine discovers her microfilm of the letters has gone missing, and she assumes the hero was teaching her a lesson by seducing her than stealing the microfilm so he could publish the definitive paper on the outcome of Battista and Francesco's relationship. "Ha," she mocks him over the phone (he's gone off to do business...you know, like Francesco going off to war), "I have a copy of the microfilm in a safe deposit box. Also, I'll hate you forever and will never sleep with you again."
The hero returns from not-war, denies her accusations, and they end up back in bed together. (The heroine, still in deep denial, warns him not to assume Francesco got as lucky with Battista.)
At this point, the book gets plotty, dealing with who stole the microfilm and why (look at me, not spoiling!), and JAK does a satisfactory job of using that plot to forward the romantic relationship from passion to a proposal of marriage to mutual confessions of love. Love that both of them claim originated during the correspondence that we never see. That is the book's weakness and is typical of JAK's category romances. Even though her protagonists usually have great chemistry, we rarely see any feelings develop. They just spring from instalove.
When I read this book as a pretentious, history-loving teenager, the comparison to Francesco and Battista left me starry-eyed. Now I'm a little more jaded and find the references a bit heavy-handed. The boy-meets-girl plot is clipping along, but feels stuttery and repetitive every time the historical comparison has to be established. I think JAK did this better in Body Guard (where the lovers' relationship is compared to Arthurian legend, not fictional Renaissance history). And maybe by the time I get to Body Guard, I'll have remembered the pithy phrase that describes this kind of analogy.
JAK checklist
Pacific Northwest setting: Nope: Santa Barbara (heroine's home) and Palm Springs (hero's home).
Familiar professions: In the time before Amazon, so many JAK heroines owned bookstores: Stormy Challenge, Fabulous Beast, Deep Waters. The heroine in Midnight Jewels was even attempting to launch a rare book business. And the "warrior" businessman hero is too ubiquitous in JAK's novels to list. However, this hero's dissatisfaction with merely making money leads him to go into partnership with the heroine by the story's end. There are a few other books where forming a business partnership with the heroine saves the hero from the lonely boredom of making money hand over fist: Gambler's Woman, Nightwalker.
Marital status: Both are divorced. The heroine specifically began hosting her parties because she didn't want to go out to the bar scene; she wanted to husband-hunt from the comfort of her own home. Then she realized she didn't want a second husband. She just wanted the Battista fantasy she had created.
Age: She's 30; he's 38.
Heroine's eye exam: Hazel with gold sparks
Hero's eye exam: "Nearly" green.
Hair color: Hers is light brown ("bronze"); his is dark brown ("cocoa dark").
Pets: None.
Vehicles spell success: He drives a black Ferrari.
Metaphors are for flogging: *points to title*
Hero threatens to spank heroine: "You can trust me, sweetheart,“ he murmured, not touching her. "I might beat you from time to time, but I would never cheat you. In any way."
The Family Man Forecast: ...nothing? Nothing about this book reminds of Family Man? I'm losing my touch. The hero does have green eyes, but I don't think they're described as "warlock" eyes.
The hero and heroine originally meet by corresponding in a history journal about a tempestuous pair of 15th-century Italian lovers. Battista was a courtesan who hosted noted cultural/intellectual salons and Francesco was a condottiere. Even though Francesco didn't meet Battista's usual aristocratic standards for her lovers, he seduced her before going off to fight some Medici war. While he was gone, she continued with her sophisticated parties and paying lovers. When he returned from his latest campaign, Battista barred the doors of her villa to him, and the H/h disagree about what must have happened next.
So the hero and heroine identify a lot with these (fictional) historical figures. They compare themselves, each other, and their relationship to Francesco and Battista. They first meet in person when the hero "invades" a "salon" (crashes a party) being hosted by the heroine, who has modeled her social life after Battista...minus the paying lovers, one presumes.
I feel like there's a pithy phrase to describe this type of direct comparison, but it eludes me. It isn't reincarnation. It isn't roleplaying. It's...argh!
The first 50% of the book establishes the similarities between our protagonists and their historical idols, explaining that the hero (a successful self-educated investor who collects rare books on Renaissance military history) became obsessed with the heroine (a bookseller who deals in rare books) during their heated correspondence about the lovers. So when the heroine used the hero's name to get access to letters about Francesco and Battista stored in another collector's library, the hero took the opportunity to storm her castle.
After they sleep together, the heroine discovers her microfilm of the letters has gone missing, and she assumes the hero was teaching her a lesson by seducing her than stealing the microfilm so he could publish the definitive paper on the outcome of Battista and Francesco's relationship. "Ha," she mocks him over the phone (he's gone off to do business...you know, like Francesco going off to war), "I have a copy of the microfilm in a safe deposit box. Also, I'll hate you forever and will never sleep with you again."
The hero returns from not-war, denies her accusations, and they end up back in bed together. (The heroine, still in deep denial, warns him not to assume Francesco got as lucky with Battista.)
At this point, the book gets plotty, dealing with who stole the microfilm and why (look at me, not spoiling!), and JAK does a satisfactory job of using that plot to forward the romantic relationship from passion to a proposal of marriage to mutual confessions of love. Love that both of them claim originated during the correspondence that we never see. That is the book's weakness and is typical of JAK's category romances. Even though her protagonists usually have great chemistry, we rarely see any feelings develop. They just spring from instalove.
When I read this book as a pretentious, history-loving teenager, the comparison to Francesco and Battista left me starry-eyed. Now I'm a little more jaded and find the references a bit heavy-handed. The boy-meets-girl plot is clipping along, but feels stuttery and repetitive every time the historical comparison has to be established. I think JAK did this better in Body Guard (where the lovers' relationship is compared to Arthurian legend, not fictional Renaissance history). And maybe by the time I get to Body Guard, I'll have remembered the pithy phrase that describes this kind of analogy.
JAK checklist
Pacific Northwest setting: Nope: Santa Barbara (heroine's home) and Palm Springs (hero's home).
Familiar professions: In the time before Amazon, so many JAK heroines owned bookstores: Stormy Challenge, Fabulous Beast, Deep Waters. The heroine in Midnight Jewels was even attempting to launch a rare book business. And the "warrior" businessman hero is too ubiquitous in JAK's novels to list. However, this hero's dissatisfaction with merely making money leads him to go into partnership with the heroine by the story's end. There are a few other books where forming a business partnership with the heroine saves the hero from the lonely boredom of making money hand over fist: Gambler's Woman, Nightwalker.
Marital status: Both are divorced. The heroine specifically began hosting her parties because she didn't want to go out to the bar scene; she wanted to husband-hunt from the comfort of her own home. Then she realized she didn't want a second husband. She just wanted the Battista fantasy she had created.
Age: She's 30; he's 38.
Heroine's eye exam: Hazel with gold sparks
Hero's eye exam: "Nearly" green.
Hair color: Hers is light brown ("bronze"); his is dark brown ("cocoa dark").
Pets: None.
Vehicles spell success: He drives a black Ferrari.
Metaphors are for flogging: *points to title*
Hero threatens to spank heroine: "You can trust me, sweetheart,“ he murmured, not touching her. "I might beat you from time to time, but I would never cheat you. In any way."
The Family Man Forecast: ...nothing? Nothing about this book reminds of Family Man? I'm losing my touch. The hero does have green eyes, but I don't think they're described as "warlock" eyes.
April 4, 2017
I really enjoyed this book, which surprised me a bit. The copy I have came in an anthology with Velvet Touch, which I did not like. Usually with these JAK compilation books the stories tend to be very similar in tone and writing style. But Renaissance Man had none of the problems that plagued Velvet Touch and I really believed that Alina and Jared were desperately in love with each other at the end.
The premise of the story is that Alina and Jared are both singularly in love with the tale of a couple who lived in the fifteenth century; Battista and Francesco. Alina's sympathies are with Battista and Jared's with Francesco and they both have different ideas about how the couple's story ends. Alina and Jared have exchanged letters for three months passionately debating the couple's relationship and in the process developing a bit of a relationship themselves.
Jared shows up at Alina's house while she's having a party and sweeps her off her feet in short order. I really liked Jared's character. He was masculine and strong but at the same time sweet and emotionally vulnerable. He made it clear from almost the very beginning that he needed Alina; not just desired her physically but needed her on every level. It doesn't take long for Alina to fall in love with Jared as well and the depth of their feelings for each other never leave the reader in doubt of how the book will end.
The thing that cost this book half a star, though was Alina's behavior at the end. (To me, 5/5 stars is like receiving a 100% grade on a school paper; everything has to be perfect. Everything I like included and none of the stuff I don't.) There's a permeating story about Alina having gotten ahold of a microfilm that is supposed to contain letters related to the Battista/Francesco story. The film is taken and once it's established that Jared didn't take it, suspicion is cast on someone in Alina's life. Alina balks at the idea of this person being the thief and all the implications it carries with it, but it isn't long before she's having trouble denying the facts and she starts to see the truth. At this point, however, she starts insisting that she needs to "warn" the person of the trap Jared and his associate have laid. It makes no sense that she would do this.
I know that Alina considered this person a friend and she felt a sense of loyalty to him, but it doesn't make sense to warn him. If he was innocent, then he wouldn't get caught in the trap. And if he was guilty then he'd deliberately set Alina up as the fall-guy should his crimes ever get discovered and thus he didn't deserve her loyalty. She realizes all this but still keeps insisting that she owes him a warning. It would have made much more sense in the story if she'd stuck to her guns and insisted that there must be a logical explanation for everything. And that her desire to contact him wasn't to warn him so he wouldn't get caught, but to hear his side of the story. That still would have served the purpose of causing Jared to question whether she was in love with this other guy and thus provided the impetus for the big relationship finale at the end. It bugs me when authors write their characters so that they behave in an illogical manner when there was a perfectly good alternative they could have taken that would have made much more sense in the story.
I also found it frustrating that we never found out the end of Battista and Francesco's story. It wouldn't have been hard to include a short epilogue in which Alina and Jared finally figure it out.
All in all, though, this was a solid book with a believable love story and the mystery kept my attention too.
The premise of the story is that Alina and Jared are both singularly in love with the tale of a couple who lived in the fifteenth century; Battista and Francesco. Alina's sympathies are with Battista and Jared's with Francesco and they both have different ideas about how the couple's story ends. Alina and Jared have exchanged letters for three months passionately debating the couple's relationship and in the process developing a bit of a relationship themselves.
Jared shows up at Alina's house while she's having a party and sweeps her off her feet in short order. I really liked Jared's character. He was masculine and strong but at the same time sweet and emotionally vulnerable. He made it clear from almost the very beginning that he needed Alina; not just desired her physically but needed her on every level. It doesn't take long for Alina to fall in love with Jared as well and the depth of their feelings for each other never leave the reader in doubt of how the book will end.
The thing that cost this book half a star, though was Alina's behavior at the end. (To me, 5/5 stars is like receiving a 100% grade on a school paper; everything has to be perfect. Everything I like included and none of the stuff I don't.) There's a permeating story about Alina having gotten ahold of a microfilm that is supposed to contain letters related to the Battista/Francesco story. The film is taken and once it's established that Jared didn't take it, suspicion is cast on someone in Alina's life. Alina balks at the idea of this person being the thief and all the implications it carries with it, but it isn't long before she's having trouble denying the facts and she starts to see the truth. At this point, however, she starts insisting that she needs to "warn" the person of the trap Jared and his associate have laid. It makes no sense that she would do this.
I know that Alina considered this person a friend and she felt a sense of loyalty to him, but it doesn't make sense to warn him. If he was innocent, then he wouldn't get caught in the trap. And if he was guilty then he'd deliberately set Alina up as the fall-guy should his crimes ever get discovered and thus he didn't deserve her loyalty. She realizes all this but still keeps insisting that she owes him a warning. It would have made much more sense in the story if she'd stuck to her guns and insisted that there must be a logical explanation for everything. And that her desire to contact him wasn't to warn him so he wouldn't get caught, but to hear his side of the story. That still would have served the purpose of causing Jared to question whether she was in love with this other guy and thus provided the impetus for the big relationship finale at the end. It bugs me when authors write their characters so that they behave in an illogical manner when there was a perfectly good alternative they could have taken that would have made much more sense in the story.
I also found it frustrating that we never found out the end of Battista and Francesco's story. It wouldn't have been hard to include a short epilogue in which Alina and Jared finally figure it out.
All in all, though, this was a solid book with a believable love story and the mystery kept my attention too.
September 14, 2014
I really enjoyed this book. Her characters are always different than expected. I enjoyed all of her 80's books and took them for the era they were in and what was selling. I do wish they were all in Kindle Format!
October 28, 2008
Although I am a JAK fan from the get-go, I'm afraid "Renaissance Man" will not make my favorites list.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 18, 2025
***MINOR SPOILERS***
In this novel, Alina and Jared have been corresponding about a Renaissance love affair but have never met in person. Jared shows up the night Alina hosts a salon style event and immediately begins challenging her in person.
An immediate turn off (and loss of stars) happens when they are discussing the love affair and Jared says “I’ll bet Francesco not only got back inside her villa after he killed her latest lover, I’ll bet he took his belt to Battista, too! She deserved it.” That behavior or attitude on the part of a man is never ok. No man has the right to physically abuse a woman. No man has the right to decide what behavior is ok or what is not. He makes several references throughout the book that he would be willing to do the same to Alina. He does not actually do it, but the thought is there.
When they first meet, Jared mentions that they each see themselves in one part of the couple. The woman had been a courtesan, and he asks Alina if she is one. It is insulting.
Jared goes onto say that he is there to claim Alina and gives the impression he is going to steamroll over all of her objections. I’m sorry, but that is not romantic. It was not done with care and intimacy. It is done with certainty and without regard for how she feels about it or at least with the assumption that he knows that she really wants better than she does. He also says that she belongs to him. Although that is something that I do not mind if there is mutual belonging in the loving and claiming sense, it feels more possessive here.
When some microfilm that contains information about the love affair goes missing from Alina’s house, Alina accuses Jared of taking it. She does not want him in her house, and he breaks in to continue the argument. He makes several statements about getting her back in bed and making her apologize to him which she does.
The book took place over a couple of days. Other than the references to how they connected and got to know each other through letters, there was no relationship development. The letters were not included.
There was a nice speech where Jared declares his love for Alina. It did not make up for the rest of the book.
I do not recommend this book.
In this novel, Alina and Jared have been corresponding about a Renaissance love affair but have never met in person. Jared shows up the night Alina hosts a salon style event and immediately begins challenging her in person.
An immediate turn off (and loss of stars) happens when they are discussing the love affair and Jared says “I’ll bet Francesco not only got back inside her villa after he killed her latest lover, I’ll bet he took his belt to Battista, too! She deserved it.” That behavior or attitude on the part of a man is never ok. No man has the right to physically abuse a woman. No man has the right to decide what behavior is ok or what is not. He makes several references throughout the book that he would be willing to do the same to Alina. He does not actually do it, but the thought is there.
When they first meet, Jared mentions that they each see themselves in one part of the couple. The woman had been a courtesan, and he asks Alina if she is one. It is insulting.
Jared goes onto say that he is there to claim Alina and gives the impression he is going to steamroll over all of her objections. I’m sorry, but that is not romantic. It was not done with care and intimacy. It is done with certainty and without regard for how she feels about it or at least with the assumption that he knows that she really wants better than she does. He also says that she belongs to him. Although that is something that I do not mind if there is mutual belonging in the loving and claiming sense, it feels more possessive here.
When some microfilm that contains information about the love affair goes missing from Alina’s house, Alina accuses Jared of taking it. She does not want him in her house, and he breaks in to continue the argument. He makes several statements about getting her back in bed and making her apologize to him which she does.
The book took place over a couple of days. Other than the references to how they connected and got to know each other through letters, there was no relationship development. The letters were not included.
There was a nice speech where Jared declares his love for Alina. It did not make up for the rest of the book.
I do not recommend this book.
August 9, 2019
Meh. Too short too shallow. Pity
August 23, 2019
I considered not finishing this outdated romance. I found the actions of the hero and the reactions of the heroine to be equally obnoxious.
May 23, 2021
James's books have a nice steady pace filled with action, drama, excitement to keep you blood running.
September 30, 2013
When I bought this book I didn't realize it was a republishing of an early Harliquin type book. It is obvious however at page one. It's certainly not up to her current standards of writing. That I can forgive, also the trite phrases I can ignore, but the gratuitous use of the exclamation point was so annoying! It was very other sentence! No one exclaims that much! I found it very distracting! Uggh.
February 25, 2013
A 1982 publication of Jayne Ann Krentz, this book was about what I would expect of her writing at that time. The dialogue, plot, and characters are not as deeply developed as in her later works, yet I still re-read these books every other year in spite of the contrived and repetitious dialogue.
February 26, 2024
This is definitely an early book of Krentz's. There's not much to it. But I did enjoy the good writing and the dialogue.
Interesting story and possibilities.
Interesting story and possibilities.
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