First off this is not one of Krentz's best works and the bad news is there's a good chance there will be a sequel. Catalina and Oliva as teens go into the caves at Fogg Lake at home like all teens do only two men come in while they're there and one kills the other by injecting a needle into him leaving them to run into the deepest darkest part of the caves where they find the Devil's Chandelier a source of powerful psychic energy. They wait till dawn when the town will come looking for them and they'll be safe.
Now it's fifteen years later and Catalina and Oliva are living in Seatle and have opened up a detective agency. Olivia feels that tonight is the night to tell her boyfriend about her psychic abilities and see what happens. But when she doesn't turn up for work the next day and it turns out she never made it to her boyfriend's house the previous night, Catalina is worried and knows that she needs to call in the Foundation a group that polices the psychics. Oddly enough one of them lands on her doorstep that morning wanting her help on a case. His name is Slater Arganbright and he's just gotten out of spending six months inside the "attic" of his uncles' house going mad and recovering from being gassed. His powers are changing.
They talk to Maggie a homeless woman who has some powers who hang out near their offices and she says that she sees two clones take Olivia in a vehicle and inject her with a needle. They figure out that the clones she saw were really twins and that they need her to use her powers to do something. Slater believes they need her to find the Devil's Chandelier which is one of the old labs that used to exist.
This book is dull and it feels like she's gone over this territory before a million times. There's nothing fresh and the characters are boring and the sex scenes are short and lack sizzle. I'm a huge Jayne Ann Krentz fan and this book was a huge disappointment for me. I give it two and half stars. The half star goes for the fork.
Quotes
“A fork? Really?” “People think it’s odd if you carry a
knife or gun in your handbag.” “But they don’t take much notice of a fork,” “No,”
Catalina said. “They don’t.” “Have you ever had to use it before tonight?” “Once,”
Catalina said. “What happened?” “I’m still here.” “I think I’ll get myself a
fork.”
-Jayne Ann Krentz (The Vanishing p 26-7)
“But revenge is still revenge, and you know what they say
about embarking on that journey.” She
sighed. “That business about first digging
two graves? I don’t think it will come to that, but I can tell you one thing.” “What?”
“Payback doesn’t feel nearly as good as it should.” “Karma bites.”
-Jayne Ann Krentz (The Vanishing p 131)
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