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    After Glow
    After Glow
    After Glow
    Audiobook9 hours

    After Glow

    Written by Jayne Castle

    Narrated by Joyce Bean

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    About this audiobook

    Return to Harmony—where nothing is as it seems.

    Life is complicated for Lydia Smith. She's working at a tacky, third-rate museum, Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, trying to salvage her career in para-archaeology—and dating the most dangerous man in town. Just when she thinks she might be getting things under control, she stumbles over a dead body and discovers that her lover has a secret past that could get him killed. Just to top it off, there's trouble brewing underground in the eerie, glowing green passageways of the Dead City.

    Descending into these twisting catacombs, Lydia will learn just what it's like to put her heart—and life—on the line...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 1, 2009
    ISBN9781423385226
    After Glow
    Author

    Jayne Castle

    The author of more than fifty New York Times bestsellers, Jayne Ann Krentz writes romantic suspense in three different worlds: contemporary (as Jayne Ann Krentz), historical (as Amanda Quick), and futuristic (as Jayne Castle). There are over 35 million copies of her books in print.

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    • 5/5
      The Dust Bunnies are one of the best characters I have ever come across...Absolutely Love them. The world of Harmony is very unique and I cannot wait for the next story.
    • 5/5
      Lydia Smith is still working at Shrimpton's and trying to build her career as a consultant. She's dating Emmett London despite the fact that he's a former hunter turned business consultant. Lydia has found a rich new client who wants her to find artifacts to decorate his new development. But she is still trying to find out what happened during her "lost weekend" when she spent 48 hours lost in the catacombs under Cadence City.When an old colleague contacts her saying he has some information about the time that she lost, Lydia is quick to go see him. Only she arrives too late and she finds his body. She immediately calls the police but there are suspicions of her involvement since she had recently found another body. When she and Emmett return to the scene of the crime, they find a carefully hidden clue but it isn't clear what the clue is supposed to tell them.Then Mercer Wyatt is shot and Emmett is chosen to take over temporary control of the Cadence City Guild. This causes all sorts of conflicts between Lydia and Emmett because Lydia still blames Guild hunters for abandoning her in the catacombs which led to her lost weekend and losing her job as a para-archaeologist. Things get even worse when someone tries to kill Emmett by setting a large green ghost on him. And there is a plot that someone wants to challenge him to a hunter duel to take control of the Guild. This leads to Lydia proposing a Marriage of Convenience to Emmett so that she can protect him from being challenged to a duel. Now, Emmett wants to marry Lydia but he would prefer the more permanent Covenant Marriage and he would prefer that Lydia is marrying him because she loves him, not just because she wants to protect him. This story is science fiction lite. Twentieth Century Earth culture and most technology is just dumped onto the planet of Harmony. There are additions though. The residents are gaining psychic powers as the generations go on and there are alien ruins that provide all sorts of mysteries for scientists and treasure hunters to discover. And there are dust bunnies. Fuzz makes his second appearance in this story as someone who has adopted Lydia and who has a number of paranormal talents of his own including his psychic bond with Lydia which lets him find her when she's lost in the catacombs. Dust bunnies are small, six-legged and four-eyed creatures that look a lot like a ball of dryer lint. They are predators who are quite protective of the humans they adopt.This was a fun paranormal romance which was also a mystery. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Joyce Bean did a nice job with the different character voices and the pacing of the story.
    • 4/5
      I found the book to be less exciting than the selling description indicates but it did have it's moments...loved the 'dust bunnies" and what is a "Mystery Mistress's" job anyway? . I thought the characters were mostly "common"...for lack of a better description. Not an bad series...just not for me. I read the book for a challenge and it served that purpose well but I think I'll skip the remainder of the series.
    • 2/5
      After I listened to the audiobook of the first book in this series, I looked at the icon for the second book on my computer and figured it was as good as anything to listen to while doing other things. So I queued it up. I do silly things like that now and then. And there they all were, the issues that annoyed me in the first book: repetition galore, long moments and lost weekends even moreso, one fluffy creature standing in for the entire native fauna of a planet, and rezzing. So much rezzing. And rezzes. Hey, look, I can do a search through Google Books: there are rez-shrinks and mag-rez locks and para-rez and rez-jazz and rez-screens and instincts going into high rez and oh lord what does that even mean? Oh, and rez-tea, for heaven's sake. It's as though instead of actual world-building the author decided to just add "rez-" to everything. Dinner rezzes on the stove. Characters rez a lock or the ignition of the stand-in for a car or the stand-in for a tv. (The latter two things are absolutely indistinguishable from plain old televisions or cars. Again, what's the point?) All the rezzing irritated me more in this outing. Obviously. The word "munch" is wildly overused, too. Somebody needs to use a word cloud or something. The writing in general annoyed me more in this one. Dialogue is simultaneously stilted – how many people really say things like "I clutched it"? – and too current; this book takes place in the very, very distant future, since it's over a thousand years after the curtain closed between here and there, and the curtain opened somewhere around now. And yet someone names an off-limits place "Area 51"… and as I mentioned in my review of the last one otherwise the whole thing could easily take place in 2016 Milwaukee with just a few simple changes. Characters have a habit of asking questions that were answered about a minute ago – "They found [so-and-so's] body…" "Dead?" Yes, that is usually what that means. And Captain Obvious is an unbilled star … as, for example, when the explorers come across thousand-year-old skeletons. Lydia: "I remember them. They were here last time." WERE THEY?? So – you were there within the last thousand years, then? Got it. There's no point in arguing the finer points of writing with these books; they're meant as pure popcorn. As someone in a podcase I listen to said a while ago, "popcorn fare" keeps the muscles warm, but doesn't give your brain a workout. My mistake is trying to make things make sense – like why this is supposedly set so far away in space and time when the writer obviously doesn't feel like making much effort at incorporating that into her world or writing. Or why characters are so insta-jealous with absolutely no cause – they just are, maybe because the author finds it entertaining. I must remember to put these books on my just talk to each other shelf, because the diffident "I'm not worthy" nonsense coming from the heroine and the primal "my woman, other men must stay away or I will kill them" crap coming from the hero is … nonsensical crap. So these two books killed a few hours, and perhaps a few brain cells, and my patience. I don't quite regret the time spent listening to them. But they are sure as sure can be the last books by this author I ever try. (Note to self: investigate writer's pseudonyms in order to avoid them.)
    • 4/5
      I liked this paranormal mystery but it was part two of the first book in the series and I felt like I was jumping into the middle of the romance which was over powered by the plot. It was also too heavy on the rez terminology. Emmett is named guild boss and his lover Lydia isn't happy about it.
    • 4/5
      A direct sequel to Castle's first Harmony novel, After Dark. Lydia and Emmett are now a couple, but she hasn't lost her habit of stumbling across dead bodies. Meanwhile, the local Guild boss is badly wounded and names Emmett as temporary boss, complicating their lives horribly.Another nice paranormal romance from Castle, who handles the fantastic elements well.
    • 4/5
      In this sequel to After Dark we are taken back to the alternate dimension of Harmony which is populated by dust bunnies and rez-ghosts, where the decedents of stranded settlers from Earth have developed paranormal abilities to manipulate the dangerous and powerful energies left behind by ancient aliens. Lydia was one of the best Tanglers around before a Guild double-cross left her temporarily burnt and with a seemingly permanent case of amnesia. Emmet is the Hunter and former Guild leader who is determined to win Lydia's heart despite her reservations against his past position. When Lydia stumbles onto another dead body after a cryptic phone call, she is sure it is all tied in to the Guild conspiracy against her and is determined to find out the truth.This was another very good suspense/mystery/romance which brings back the characters of Lydia, Emmet and, most importantly, Fuzz. In this story Lydia seems to have mellowed a bit in her attitude which made her much more likable to me. Despite the forces surrounding her and Emmet and facts that you would think might drive them apart I was happy to find that they wasted no time arguing against each other and actually leaned on and listened to each other in an attempt to figure out exactly what was going on. Fuzz was once again my favorite character and I'm certainly fond of the dust bunnies as a supernatural creature. The ending did seem a little drawn out but it might only have been my perception because I kept getting interrupted by outside forces (i.e. my family)! This is certainly a very readable series so far with a well-developed world and interesting characters. I'm sure I'll be reading more in the future.
    • 3/5
      The second novel featuring Lydia Smith, a 'tangler,' and Emmett London, a 'ghost hunter' is an excellent continuation of their tale. Generally, I believe each couple gets one book, and after that, they can guest in other books, but in the case of Lydia and Emmett, their story was too long for just one book. I had mentioned in my review of "After Dark" that I thought there were some loose ends, and this book ties them up. The mystery of Lydia's "Lost Weekend" in the Harmonic Catacombs is solved, and everyone lives happily ever after (except the people who died). The only thing I didn't like about this book was the over use of the word "rez." It is explained that the power source of choice on Harmony is for people to use psi energy to 'rez' tuned Amber. This powers cars, televisions (or 'rez-screens'), guns, etc. Therefore, I can understand terms like 'rez-screen' and 'mag-rez gun.' However, I think terms like 'rez-tea' and 'rez-jazz' are unnecessary. If you can overlook that, though, it's a good book.
    • 4/5
      Second half of the love story between two characters. I rarely read books where the author does this, so it was a nice surprise. Overall storyline was great, but Lydia's attitude towards the Guild was a bit annoying after a while.
    • 4/5
      This is part of Jayne Castle aka Jayne Ann Krentz's Ghost Hunter series, chronologically the third in the series but as a full novel the second in the series. This tells the continuing story of Lydia Smith, she's working for a tacky third-rate museum, Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, taking on the occasional job to try to reclaim her career. Between that, dating one of the most powerful and dangerous men in the town and dead bodies turning up she has a handful of trouble. Lydia is an interesting character but sometimes it wasn't really clear where she was coming from. She really has some problems fitting into her world and it really didn't come across as sufficiently different to appease the SF fan in me.One of my favourite characters is Fuzz the dust bunny, very very funny.Enjoyable, light but nothing terribly amazing. You also really need to have read the prequel to make this work for you.
    • 4/5
      Lydia and Emmett are characters continued from previous tale, After Dark, and while their relationship is already established, it can’t be considered stable by any means. Once again the alien ruins provide plenty of danger to this couple as they head on two separate quests which somehow converge in the glowing green passageways of the Dead City. Characterizations are wonderfully conflicted and interesting. Plenty of suspense, romance and passion together with mesmerizing story-telling abilities, make After Glow a truly pleasurable read.