What do You think about Smoke In Mirrors (2002)?
What I like best about this book is that the mystery part never gets interrupted by the romance part. Unlike other most of the romantic suspence novels at the end this novels has logical explanation of the events in chronological order. Though it's not that hard to put up all the pieces together to find out the murderer and you can always use your reader's intuition about who it is but when the charecters discuss about how they figured it out you can compare your train of thought with them i.e. with writer's. There is two romances in the story and the love scenes leave much room for your emagination which perfectly matches with the style and pace of narration to keep the highlights on the mystery not on the romance.
—Gargi
My least favorite of Krentz's (by any name) books. I liked the characters, but they were not deeply drawn. They lacked substance. The start gave indications of Arcane possibiliets, but ended as a simple mystery. It was almost like the author changed her mind about the plot half way through the book. I have loved other books of Krentz/Quick and will read more. I listened to this book, as I have many of her books. There were two narrators. James Daniels was good. He made the characters and story come alive. The other, Aasne Vigesaa was bad. She talked too fast, had no depth to her voice and detracted from the story.
—Deanna Against Censorship
This is the kind of book where rooms are always chambers, the past is always yesteryear, hallways are always corridors, and books are always tomes. And where perfectly ordinary mid-nineteenth century books of no particular value but with cool marbled end papers count as "ancient tomes" which makes me nuts. I like to imagine that JAK does this with a twinkle in her eye, sort of deliberately trying to sound Gothic and mysterious, but I worry that a) she thinks her readers are dumb or b) she really wants to write this way. I guess there's always a choice between overplaying a part and underplaying it. In this particular tome (heck, it's probably ancient by now), JAK always went with overplaying.I'm particularly entertained by the blurb on the front from People magazine -- "Hearts will flutter. Spines will tingle." The passive voice is just so insulting. Who in the world would think this was a cover-worthy compliment?!? I imagine the author staring at a copy incredulously and then calling up her publisher to get some junior assistant fired.
—Heather
