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A review by erin_penn
In Too Deep by Jayne Ann Krentz
2.0
Action and Romance in Uneven Mix
Short version: Good enough story to read to the end - good action, semi-complex characters, and enough plot twists to draw you through to the finale.
Long version:
I had a Jayne Ann Krentz weekend - going through three books and working on a fourth now (under her various pen names). As always, I find her an odd mix of "phoning in" a story and writing a story that pulls you in. Sometimes the story grips you and sometimes you go "my, aren't we trying to be clever." The first book I read Running Hot (Arcane Society, Book 5) made me want to see Fallon Jones story.
The three books of the "Looking Glass Trilogy" are written under her three pen names - First one is modern, second one is Victorian and third is set in her sci-fi/fantasy world.
SPOILERS FOLLOW
The story line scatters with different plots - but the information networker connects the dots eventually. Fallon's power come across as too much or too little. Very "deus ex machina" - the author has the powers work when she wants and doesn't when she needs to stretch things out some.
I liked the story well enough, but the psi powers in this story kept throwing me out of the story because they didn't gel right for me.
Short version: Good enough story to read to the end - good action, semi-complex characters, and enough plot twists to draw you through to the finale.
Long version:
I had a Jayne Ann Krentz weekend - going through three books and working on a fourth now (under her various pen names). As always, I find her an odd mix of "phoning in" a story and writing a story that pulls you in. Sometimes the story grips you and sometimes you go "my, aren't we trying to be clever." The first book I read Running Hot (Arcane Society, Book 5) made me want to see Fallon Jones story.
The three books of the "Looking Glass Trilogy" are written under her three pen names - First one is modern, second one is Victorian and third is set in her sci-fi/fantasy world.
SPOILERS FOLLOW
Spoiler
Fallon Jones is a information networker psi (called a strategy specialist in Krentz's worlds). He hooks up with someone raised by conspiracy theorists. I find Isabella's secondary powers unbelievable in how quickly people cave the minute she starts telling them what their fog is saying. Everyone reacts too positively - too quickly to her. But it is a high ranking psi-power so I guess that is an excuse.The story line scatters with different plots - but the information networker connects the dots eventually. Fallon's power come across as too much or too little. Very "deus ex machina" - the author has the powers work when she wants and doesn't when she needs to stretch things out some.
I liked the story well enough, but the psi powers in this story kept throwing me out of the story because they didn't gel right for me.