This was a romance with paranormal elements, the second in a series. The two lead characters, Adelaide and Mr. Winters are "talents"- people with a magical talent. Mr. Winters (whose first name escapes me) can pull shadows around him so he is almost invisible and can also induce nightmares in p...
This is my first time reading Amanda Quick/Jayne Ann Krentz/Jayne Castle. I would give this 2.5 stars. For me it failed on a number of levels, but I think there could be promise here. It was an interesting read. To me, a number of the main characters were not fully developed. I also think th...
I love Jayne Anne Krentz/Amanda Quick novels, and I love it with Piatkus sends me them to review because I know I'm in for a treat! Imagine my excitement when I opened a package to see not one book by her, but TWO. These books are my guilty pleasure, the books I pick up when it's been one of thos...
Perfect Poison by Amanda Quick was almost as good in a second reading as it was in the first. This book brings us back to the Victorian Era when the Arcane Society was becoming a little more organized. Lucinda, a botanist with paranormal talents with plants hires Caleb Jones, whose talents lie...
After a rocky start where I didn't really connect with the characters this story grew on me after a while. With Ms Quick's regular feisty heroine and brooding dark hero, I found myself remembering everything I love about this author. Although there wasn't the humour that appears in her earlier ...
This is a fine book, as long as you understand what you're getting and don't expect anything more. It's light, fun and fluffy. It is an easy read that does not make any demands on the reader other than to go with the flow and have an escapist bit of fun.I get Amanda Quick's books in audio format ...
Lucinda has a talent for detecting poisons, and she can sense them in the aura around a person or a body or even in the air. In fact, the members of the Arcane Society each possess an unusual talent. But because her specialty is poison and her fiancé died from being poisoned, Lucinda is fearful...
Ever since "discovering" Amanda Quick for myself a couple of weeks ago, I've been mainlining her books, particularly the single-word titles (i.e., Mistress," "Mischief," "Surrender," etc.) (and yes, I'm aware that Amanda Quick is one of Jayne Ann Krentz's various nom de plumes). A few of them hav...
3+ starsThis fourth and last Vanza book is only loosely tied to the series as a whole. The Hero, Ambrose Wells, is a student of Vanza and his master was John Stoner. Stoner was the rogue Vanza student of the master Lorring - Stoner was the one sent by Lorring to kill or hinder Edison Stokes in th...
Settingnya di abad pertengahan, Sir Hugh the Relentless adalah seorang Lord sekaligus Ksatria yang ditakuti musuh-musuhnya karena kekuatan, keganasan, dan kegigihannya. Terlahir sebagai seorang bastard, karena orangtuanya meninggal sebelum sempat menikah, Hugh dibesarkan dengan idiom permusuhan, ...
A fun, light, quick-witted read!Only a year or so ago, Louisa Bryce, a very intelligent woman, faked a suicide to run from the supposed murder of a very prominent, but very evil, man. Hired by Emma Ashton as a companion, someone to write her memoires, Louisa and Emma quickly become fast friends, ...
This is book 3 in the series starring Lavinia Lake and Tobias March. It picks up where book 2 left off...Tobias is falling hard for Lavinia, becomming more and more frustrated, trying all through the novel to find more private time with her, in this fast pased murder mystery. In true alpha male s...
Wait Until Midnight was a very enjoyable novel. It was a signature Amanda Quick story--there was a cold, calculating hero and a headstrong, eccentric and sometimes reckless heroine who were brought together by a dark mystery. This formula isn't always executed well, as in the case of Mistress and...
Amanda Quick’s novels could never be classed as thought-provoking literary gems, but then that’s not what they’re supposed to be. They’re supposed to be quick, easy, light reads that don’t require too much participation from the reader’s brain. And that’s exactly what they provide. If I want a li...
Satu lagi novel Amanda Quick yang menarik perhatian saya, dengan genre yang tidak biasa, romance detective..buat saya, romance ya romance, detektif ya detektif. Menarik membaca kedua hal ini di gabungkan. Dua karakter nya, Tobias March dan Lavinia Lake, yang orang biasa yang selalu kekurangan uan...
2.5-3 starsThis book reminded me a lot of the 2nd book, but with a different couple. While Artemas and Madeline are very different people than Edison and Emma, the banter between them, the chemistry between them, and the whole employer-employee thing was much the same.The ghost part of the story ...
Finally a historical romance where I enjoyed both the romance and the actual plot! They tied in well together and I wasn’t disappointed when moving between the two.Elenora has been left with practically nothing after the death of her stepfather. She has run her family’s estate in the country fo...
I'm loving my Project A-Team project! So far only one dud.It's been a long time since I've read any Amanda Quick books. I started to lose interest with her Arcane Society series and finally she just dropped off of my auto-buy list. However, Ihave a number of her older books and there are a coupl...