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Title: Orchid by Jayne Castle ISBN: 0-671-56902-3 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.28 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: 3rd in the Offworld Romance that is Dream!!
Comment: Orchid is the follow up book to Amaryllis and Zinna, in the off world old Earth colony of St. Helens. When the children of this colony grew up, it was discovered they were gifted with one of two talents: psychic ability or what they called a prism. The psychics were powerful, but they cannot control, focus it for any period time, without a prism. A prism channels their power and amplifies it. However, a psychic and a prism must be of the same level of strength or the psychic can overload and burn out the prism.
Orchid Adams is a prism and she is just what Rafe Stonebroker needs:a wife!! He is trying to take over control of his grandfathers shipping cooperation, and to do that he needs a
wife to make him appear settled. Only problem is he is an off the the chart psychic talent that has made placing him with the romance matching agencies a bit of a problem. He has contracted Orchid to help him with some private investigations, but he soon decides to do some matchmaking of his own.
When an ancient artifact is stolen by Orchid's friend, they are tangled into a deep mystery of a mad killer desperate to cover his mistakes.
Once again JAK gives us the dazzling shine of her talent!! Some of her best writing in years!!
If you purchase the soon to be release reprint of Amaryllis and Zinna under the title HARMONY, you will most definitely wish to have Orchid as well!!
People that love Nora Robert's JD Robb series should snap these up. I am surprised JAK is not getting better attention with these books since these are in the same vein.
Rating: 5
Summary: I want more !...:)
Comment: "Orchid" can be read either on its own or after reading "Amaryllis" and "Zinnia" (see my reviews on those books), and it is exactly as great as them.
To sum up, this novel is a wonderful futuristic paranormal romance written by Jayne Castle (also known as Jayne Ann Krentz). To enjoy it you will need some (or a lot of)imagination: the plot is set in the colony of St. Helens, where the pioneers from Earth that settled there were stranded after the connection between Earth and St. Helens disappeared (+ or - 200 years before the beginning of this story), and people have developed psychic abilities unknown in Earth (but needed by them to survive in a new world). Anyway, given that, you will enjoy a wonderful novel.
The main characters are Orchid Adams and Rafe Stonebraker. Rafe Stonebraker is a highly talented strat, who is looking for a wife. His search (or hunt) will take him to Orchid Adams, a full spectrum ice prism who seems to be all wrong, but feels right... The plot includes also some investigations and a lot of really good love scenes. You cannot help but be involved in this novel. Seemingly bizarre at first (specially if you haven't read "Amaryllis" or "Zinnia" before starting with "Orchid"), it bewitches the reader...
You end up wanting more. I've just bought "After Dark", by the same author. Hope it is as good as this one!!!.
Rating: 5
Summary: I LOVED IT
Comment: This is the third and last of the St. Helens triligy. I really wish she would write more in this universe.
Orchid Adams is one of my favorite characters. After hearing about her in AMARYLLIS, and ZINNIA, we finally meet her in this book.
Orchid writes PV (psychic vampires)novels. Imagine her surprise to meet a real PV, while she works as a 10+ Prism. A prism is a psychic who helps a psychic with a talent,use his talent. Sound confusing? It really isn't. It is just nature's way of controlling powerful psychics.
Rafe Stonebraker is a powerful talent. He's looking for a wife, since he is a strat-talent (hunting and tracking), one looked on as somewhat exotic, he decides to hunt his own wife. His biggest problem is that he is an off the wall talent. In other words he's more than a 10. Which would make other people wary, if they knew. He would be considered a PV.
He also has a list of qualities he is looking for in a mate, because there is no divorce on St. Helens. Added to that he needs to marry before taking over Stonebraker Shipping.
Rafe is an undercover detective, for a select few who know about him. His new case concerns an Ice prism, who supposedly stole an ancient relic. It turns out that Orchid is an Ice prism, too. She is also a friend of the Ice prism he is investigating. It seems Ice prisms are few and hard to find.
With a mind and stubornness all her own, she and Rafe set out to find the truth.
From a green and blue wedding in Northville to A showdown with another strat-talent, Rafe and Orchid entertain us to the max.
I loved this book and didn't want it to end. Enjoy!!!!!
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Title: Zinnia by Jayne Castle ISBN: 0671569015 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Amaryllis by Jayne Castle ISBN: 0671569031 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: After Dark by Jayne Castle ISBN: 051512902X Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Harmony by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Castle, Jayne After Dark Castle, Jayne Bridal Jitters Castle ISBN: 0425184773 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: After Glow by Jayne Castle ISBN: 0515136948 Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 24 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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