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Didn’t Like It “This earned a C- from me. Because of the Shelfari rating system, three stars is defined as "liked it," and a C- read for me is below average, and I didn't like it. So I've input all of my C- reads as two star reads. I reviewed this one at AAR.” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“Great beginning to a new series.”
Cheri H wrote this review Friday, December 4 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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Dana W wrote this review Monday, August 3 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Second book that takes place through the Curtain. Just as enjoyable as Amaryllis, if not more so. The chemistry between the two main characters is great. I like how their psychic powers complement each other.”
Erin S wrote this review Friday, October 10 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This is the second novel in the St. Helens series. Nick Castain is a casino owner with very bad taste and an off-the-scale Matrix Talent. Someone who sees patterns and connections, normal people don’t see. Unfortunately, it also comes with a big dose of paranoia. What Nick wants more than anything, is respectability. And with his amount of money, he thinks he can buy it. Have the best matchmaking agency in town find him a wife from one of the best families in the city-state. He already bought himself a nice estate from someone who got into debt at his casino, and he plans to become a member at the Founders club, and do some large donations to the museum and such.
Aurian wrote this review Saturday, September 13 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
But then one evening he meets a very strong prism on the metaphysical plane, someone who can channel his full powers. He has never encountered someone that strong.
The prism happens to be Zinnia Spring, an interior decorator. When her parents died the family company went bankrupt, and the rest of the family is urging her to marry money. Only she has a good excuse not to, the matchmaking agency declared her unmatchable. So the young man she was seeing at that time cut her loose. And some months ago she was set up as a scapegoat in a scandal as the mistress of a married man, to conceal the fact that he and his wife were involved with a highranking female politician. The gossip papers labeled her the Scarlet Lady, and from that day she only dresses in red, to defy them all.
Zinnia bluffs her way into Nick’s office to blame him for the disappearance of one of her Matrix clients, who was in the middle of selling Nick the lost diary of his father, who disappeared 35 years ago while on a expedition in the Islands. Nick claims innocence, he had no reason to kidnap the man, he would have paid anything for the journal. He is baffled, most people are afraid of him, or want to beg him for something, and she shows no such thing. She treats him as an equal. So he sets out to stay in touch with her, but Zinnia doesn’t respond to his plotting as he anticipated she would.
Later that night they find the bookdealer murdered, and a reporter from a gossip rag taking their picture, and insinuating they are having an affair. They become entangled in the murder, and in the search for the truth about what happened to Nick’s father. And of course their attraction to each other on the normal and on the metaphysical plane.
I enjoyed this book a lot. A great lovestory, with two well written characters. Passion and stubbornness, they complement each other perfectly. The plot was good, and again the villain not someone I would have suspected. The pieces with the nutty professor and his garden of horrors are great too. I am really looking forward to the third book, Orchid.
4 stars.”
“Zinnia Spring is using her psychic powers after her reputation was trashed ruining her business. Nick Chastain hires her; he is a casino owner, but his father had been a great archeologist who disappreared in mysterious circumstances. They connect on all levels, and are soon hunting and being hunted by a killer... ”
Luella S wrote this review Thursday, August 28 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“This earned a C- from me. Because of the Shelfari rating system, three stars is defined as "liked it," and a C- read for me is below average, and I didn't like it. So I've input all of my C- reads as two star reads. I reviewed this one at AAR.”
Laurie Gold wrote this review Saturday, May 24 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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