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Synopsis:
A
new adventure begins on Harmony…
With
its opulent casinos and hotels, the desert city of Illusion Town is totally
unique—and will take you on a thrill ride you’ll never forget.
Hannah
West isn’t the first woman to wake up in Illusion Town married to a man she
barely knows, but she has no memory of the ceremony at all. For that matter,
neither does Elias Coppersmith, her new husband. All either can remember is
that they were on the run…
With
Hannah’s dubious background and shaky para-psych profile, she could have done
much worse. The cooly competent mining heir arouses her curiosity—as well as
other parts of her mind and body. And even her dust bunny likes him.
But
a honeymoon spent retracing their footsteps leads Hannah and Elias into the
twisting underground catacombs, where secrets from both their pasts will come
to light—and where the energy of their clashing auras will grow hot enough to
burn…
Review:
Whenever
a new book by Jayne Ann Krentz/Jayne Castle/Amanda Quick comes out, it
immediately pops to the top of my ‘MUST READ IMMEDIATELY’ pile because I know
I’m going to be entertained. Illusion Town IS entertaining but there are better
books in the series. This feels like what I call a ‘bridging’ book – its
primary purpose is to lay down threads for books to come. Still, it’s an
entertaining read – just not an outstanding one. I am still be looking forward
to more sequels!
This
is a Harmony world novel, the first in the sub-arc set in Illusion Town. If
you’re thinking Las Vegas transported to the Harmony world of ghost hunters and
dust bunnies you’d be mostly right. At the heart of Illusion Town are some very
unusual alien ruins, ruins that are marked by signs of an ancient cataclysmic
event, ruins that leak oddly twisted alien psi and create markedly different
sections of the town.
The
hero is Elias Coppersmith, yeah, he’s a Coppersmith of Coppersmith Mining – we
met them a few books back in Lost Night and Siren’s Call, not to mention the
contemporary Krentz stories of Copper Beach and Dream Eyes. [No you don’t have
to have read the others before this one, JAK is very good at dropping any
background information you need along the way.] The heroine is Hannah West, an
unusual dreamlight talent known as Finder in certain circles as she is VERY
good at finding what has gone missing. And
of course there is a dust bunny, this one is named Virgil and has a thing for all
things edible.
After
completing a commission from Elias, Hannah allows herself to be talked into a
blind date [blind because all previous communication between them has been via
email]. It’s a night both of them would really like to remember since they wake
up in bed together with a marriage of convenience license and the remains of a
psi-burn buzz… Trying to track the missing evening they start retracing their
steps which lead first to a tacky wedding chapel called ‘Enchanted Night’ and
then to the ‘minister’ who operates under the name of Elvis. This leads to more
steps and more information and more danger and more secrets – you get the
drift.
There
are several subplots running through this besides the ‘What happened and why
did we think getting married was the solution?’ - there’s her priceless legacy,
the Midnight Carnival, that everyone wants, there’s her dreamlight skills that
someone thinks will be useful in getting in and out of Elias’ Ghost City
jobsite, the slimy para-researcher and the genealogist with agendas of their
own… There might have been too many plots actually as it seemed a little murky.
I’m sure future books will be clearer.
Series:
Harmony
World
H00.5
Bridal Jitters
H01
After Dark
H02
After Glow
H03
Ghost Hunter
H04
Silver Master
H05
Dark Light
H06
Obsidian Prey
H07
Midnight Crystal
Harmony
World, set on Rainshadow Island
H08
R00.5 Canyons of Night
H09
R01 The Lost Night
H10
R02 Deception Cove
H12
R04 Siren's Call
Harmony
World, set in Illusion Town
H13
IT01 Illusion Town
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