Canyons of Night (Looking Glass Trilogy #3) [Mass Market Paperback]

Jayne Castle (Author)

Book Description

Release date: August 30, 2011 | Series: Looking Glass Trilogy (Book 3)

The island of Rainshadow is home to the mysterious, privately-owned woods known only as the Preserve. Now, after fifteen years away, both Charlotte Enright and her teen crush, Slade Attridge, have returned. But will their psi talents and Slade's dust bunny companion be enough to keep them from getting drawn into the darkness at the heart of the Preserve?

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Jayne Castle, the author of After Glow, After Dark, and Harmony, is a pseudonym for Jayne Ann Krentz, the New York Times bestselling author of All Night Long, Falling Awake, Truth or Dare, Light in Shadow, Smoke in Mirrors, Lost and Found, Summer in Eclipse Bay, Dawn in Eclipse Bay, Eclipse Bay, and other novels. She has been featured in such publications as People and Entertainment Weekly, and is also known for her books written under the name Amanda Quick. A former librarian with a degree in history, she is also the editor of an award-winning essay collection, Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance. You can find her online at www.jayneannkrentz.com.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Jove; Original edition (August 30, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0515149888
• ISBN-13: 978-0515149883
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (81 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,303 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The author of over 50 New York Times bestsellers, JAYNE ANN KRENTZ writes romantic-suspense, often with a psychic and paranormal twist, 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.

Jayne's 2013 novels continue her contemporary Dark Legacy series featuring members of a Washington state crystal mining family, the Coppersmiths. DREAM EYES, the follow on book to COPPER BEACH is available now.

The Ladies of Lantern Street novels follow the employees of the Flint and Marsh agency, psychic detectives masquerading as paid companions. These women are very talented and it's a given that if a Lady of Lantern Street is on the case, she will always get her man. THE MYSTERY WOMAN, the follow on book to CRYSTAL GARDENS, will be available in April 2013.

Rainshadow is a mysterious island on the planet Harmony. Interesting creatures abound, but the most charming are the local dust bunnies with their quirky personalities. One of the mysteries of Rainshadow is the fenced off preserve in the center of the island. Further exploration will happen in DECEPTION COVE (Sep. 2013). Background on the preserve can be discovered in CANYONS OF NIGHT and THE LOST NIGHT, both also set on Rainshadow.

When she's not writing, Jayne can be found at her favorite social networking site posting messages to her readers.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 53 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars OK Book in a Usually Fun Series September 3, 2011

By Terracotta Dove

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

This is #9 in Castle's Ghost Hunter series.

She kind of phoned this one in. There were sections of the book where Castle (aka Krentz) couldn't be bothered with a believable back-and-forth conversation between the lead characters. One would ask a question (What did you do?), and the other would then just lecture for a page or two. And then they would do it all over again: a leading question with paragraphs of monologue. No sense of people actually interacting or communicating with each other.

Why else do we read her?

The plots are completely predictable; doesn't bother me. The blathering about the various types of energy and ability to view or manipulate same, I just ignore. The fact that the villain is going to spill everything at the climax - in chronological order, no less - and laugh maniacally while doing so, no worries.

I read her books for the characters and their conversations. The romantic leads are always people that are involved with others, take care of their responsibilities, don't whine, never use tragedies of the past as an excuse not to live: in other words, adults with whom I like spending time. Their conversations with each other (and the occasional pet or dust bunny) are why I read her, and have for years.

And why I will buy the next book, even though I was disappointed with this one.

48 of 53 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing end of a trilogy August 30, 2011

By Bailey418

Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

I was really looking forward to this book coming out. I've read all of Jayne Ann Krentz's Arcane novels and really loved the other period pieces "In too Deep" and "Quicksilver" in the Looking Glass Trilogy. But this book was a disappointment for me.

In this story we meet Charlotte Enbright as a teenager living on Rainshadow Island on the planet called Harmony. She is attacked one night by three guys and is saved by her teen crush Slade Attridge. He takes her to a mysterious wooded area called the Preserve that no one knows what it's actually preserving.

Cut to 15 years later and both of them have come back to the island. She's taken over her Aunt's antique shop and he's just taken the open Sheriff's position after a bad psi burn left him unable to work for the FBPI anymore. They both feel the attraction of long ago and start having an affair. In the mean time, Slade is dealing with a murder investigation, smugglers, and trying to understand what's happening to his talent.

I had several problems with the book. First, it seemed really short. There were a lot of chapters dedicated to side characters that end up going no where. The Preserve is never explained, just set aside as a set up for another sequel. The Bridewell curiosities make an appearance, but not until near the end of the book and the bad guy is thrown in almost as an afterthought. You never feel any urgency to solve the case, because nothing happens. The heroine isn't given anything to do until the very last chapters of the book and the romance is sedate. I didn't feel any chemistry and didn't really get to know her at all. Slade's inner monologues had to tell me she was a positive, warm person. Not to mention her talent is really difficult to understand. She reads rainbows? It's not auras, not dreamlight, but rainbows? I agree with her that it doesn't appear very useful in any capacity.

Overall, I definitely didn't hate the book. But it starts slow and never really picks up any speed. I was bored and left feeling like I only read a teaser for another book. Hopefully with more interesting characters.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars prequel not conclusion September 2, 2011

By Susan Martin

Format:Mass Market Paperback

This book was an enjoyable read. However, when it is viewed as the conclusion of a three part trilogy, it was weak. The glass weapons were glossed over. The engine to create the glass weapons could have been really exciting, but it was just there without anyone really understanding its importance. Rather than taking the time to conclude the current trilogy with all the suspense and detail it deserved, much of this book was used to introduce a new plot line. The Preserve is obviously in a new series, since it did not function in the plot of this one. Several characters played no real role in this book but are probably important in the next one. An allusion was made to something that must be found, but it wasn't. I don't mind a prequel to a new series. I am looking forward to a new series. However, I thought I was buying the conclusion to the current series. I feel cheated because I bought and read the first two books in this series expecting a rousing conclusion in the third. I didn't get the conclusion I was expecting.
What is with the half naked woman on the cover? This must have been Marlowe Jones, the motorcyclist, who is barely in the book. It is certainly not Charlotte, a nerdy rainbow reader with glasses.