Comments on: REVIEW: White Lies by Jayne Ann Krentz

By: margaeyre

margaeyre — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:10:00 +0000

With three Arcane Society novels published so far, boy, AM I GLAD my local library stocks her novels. For the last 3 years I NEVER buy any of her books without reading them first. For the past two years, I have only bought All night long, though I have bought some of her old books second-hand. She needs to come up with fresh ideas, though I supposed her extremely busy schedule prevents her from actually coming up with a new plot for her novels.

By: Ann(ie)

Ann(ie) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:16:05 +0000

Ack, I hope they don’t overbuy psychic stuff like they did vampires. I’m just finishing mine!

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:45:25 +0000

Ouch. I had been looking forward to this, but not if it’s a retread. Thanks for letting me know.

By: Keishon

Keishon — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:08:12 +0000

She’s only writing for her loyal fan base at this point in her career. The last Krentz I read was Sharp Edges and that was awful. I remember not finishing it. Loved her Quick titles but I read them once every 5 years or something like that. Never really cared for her contemporary voice much.

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:26:57 +0000

I love JAK in all her pseudonyms. I even have the early Stephanie James books. But you’re right when you say this didn’t bring anything fresh to the table–either for her or for paranormals. However, I suspect that there are many readers out there who enjoy the comfort of a familiar author voice/story and who won’t complain that this is a less-than-original offering from her. And who will, in fact, avidly look forward to the sequel. I would guess that’s somewhat the appeal of her, you know what you’re going to get, no huge surprises.

And yes, I still glom her with each new release :)