Comments on: REVIEW: Running Hot by Jayne Ann Krentz

By: Igor

Igor — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:12:46 +0000

How did it cost to start up this blog…I want to start my own.

By: Cauterize

Cauterize — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:16:01 +0000

Amanda Quick used to be a must-buy for me, but now JAK is turning all those books into paranormals as well. She even has linked the Arcane books to her Jayne Castle paranormals. The last good book was The Paid Companion (no mystical stuff in that one). I'm with you guys, I can't stand the paranormal formula all the time and am planning to quit her until she gets rid of all that mumbo jumbo. (As a side note, I'm quitting all paranormals for the first half of this year; I'm still carrying the scars from reading Any Given Doomsday as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program)

By: freecia

freecia — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:29:41 +0000

Thanks for the review. I have it on hold at the library at lowly # 47 in the queue and was wondering if it was worth $9.99 at the kindle store, but after reading the review I think I can wait.

Anyone else sad that the January books seem so lackluster?

By: kristenmary

kristenmary — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:47:07 +0000

I love JAK as well but I do hope she wraps up this Arcane story line soon. I’d like to see Fallon get his girl and the bad guys. Then we can go back to great contempoary stories from JAK and great historicals from AQ. Sigh. The Arcane thing was fun at the beginning but its starting to drag on.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:49:44 +0000

@Tee I loved All Night Long and felt it was really a return to top form for Krentz. She's still a comfort read for me and oddly, I didn't feel gipped paying $11.99 for it. Maybe if I had paid $20+ I would have felt differently. It's definitely not a re-read for me, though.

By: Alisha Rai

Alisha Rai — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:24:20 +0000

I still love JAK, but I agree her writing style has seriously changed, while certain elements stay the same no matter what (hero will be zen, with a “hard” face, heroine will be a misunderstood brunette or redhead, probably with hazel eyes–has there ever been a blond heroine?) . I too wished for some more of that old snappy dialogue.

The one thing I liked about this book? The hero kinda fell in love off the bat. Nice change.

By: Aoife

Aoife — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:57:23 +0000

It sounds as though Krentz/Quick is continuing along the path that caused her to go from an autobuy for me to a never-buy (or buy-only-in-an-airport-bookstore-when-I’ve-run-out-of-other-options). I stopped reading everything she wrote a few years back when I bought what I thought was a newer release, got it home, and literally could not decide until halfway through whether I had read it before or not (I had). Her writing, for a while, at least, had become so formulaic that I just burned out on it. I still have some of her older books on my shelves, and enjoy a reread every once in a while, but her new stuff has disappointed once too often, and I’m really sorry for that.

By: Tee

Tee — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:20:06 +0000

I could not agree with you more, Jane, on this entire review of “Running Hot.” All that you said regarding the main characters were similar feelings I had also to about midway thru the book. I say midway because just about then it became a DNF for me. I couldn’t take any more of it. Even excluding the initial super-quick sexual encounter, the following sex scenes seemed stiff and lacking emotion, IMO. Had my fill of Sensitives and Power Levels and Runners—whatever—it seemed as though the entire area was infiltrated with anonymous Arcane members.

I love Krentz’ writing and will continue to get her books. Finishing them becomes the problem when they’re Arcane related these days. Now she’s intermingling them between Quick and Krentz and there seems little hope that we’ll see the end of this theme for a while. I’ve enjoyed more than a few of the Arcane stories; this was not one of them.

I would enjoy more forays into themes such as “All Night Long” and others—-back to her humorous and interesting relationships, along with issues for which she often has clever solutions. Well, one came dream, can’t they?