Dangerous Magic [Paperback]

Stephanie James (Author), Jayne Ann Krentz (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Harlequin (1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373806647
• ISBN-13: 978-0373806645
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,522,655 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars bijou2311 has it just right!, December 10, 2006

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JoAnne Pinto "arizonaroper" (Maricopa, Arizona United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dangerous Magic (Mass Market Paperback)

This is one of JAK's early books, written as Stephanie James in the late '80's and it is unreal. A career business woman is accused by her boss of sleeping her way to a promotion, for which he admits she is the most qualified candidate, and then he refuses to promote her because she should have slept with him! And she takes this abuse; she not only takes it, but when he suggests she sleep with him as he can do more for her career, she agrees so she can get revenge! It is this kind of drivel that has weighed down women's chances of being accepted as rational adults who have the right to be treated as rational adults who mean what they say when they say it. bijou2311 wrote a perfect review for this book; I wish I'd read it before I spent the $$! If you like idiot women who let men manipulate them and if you like idiot men who can't see past their 'manhood', you're going to love this mess; if you like real people facing dramatic situations and dealing with them, you'll be like me and hate it. I love JAK and have read everything she's written since she graduated from this 8th grade romance genre. Do yourself a favor and stick with her real books and give this mess a pass!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars get help, December 1, 2006

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bijou2311 "bijou2311" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dangerous Magic (Mass Market Paperback)

the 'hero' in this book is horrible and ridiculous. he needs serious help, and to be honest, so does the heroine. even when the hero knows he is wrong he doesn't appologize, but uses his position to coerce the heroine. AND SHE LETS HIM. come on, both of you, grow up.

she should have slapt him with a lawsuit then left his company and done fine on her own - or some other ridiculously dramatic thing - because he deserved every bit of it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Jerkwad and Doormat: A love story., February 27, 2007

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J. Bergin (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dangerous Magic (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was so awesomely bad that I started reading it, but then just couldn't finish it. I have to give it 1 star, because that's what Amazon requires, but the part I read was pure drivel. As many reviewers have pointed out, this is a 20-year-old Jayne Ann Krentz book written for Harlquin under a psuedonym. Her writing (and characters) have improved IMMENSELY over the years, but this is one of those books that is just best forgotten. I understand that's good business for Harlequin to cash in on Krentz' success by reissuing some of her old novels for them, but was this the best they had to work with?

It starts off and you've got a woman named Elissa who has been called into her boss's office to be told, point-blank, that she's being denied for a promotion -- for which the boss admits that Elissa is the most qualified -- because he thinks that she slept with another boss...that's she's sleeping her way to the top. The boss (Wade) refuses to believe Elissa's protestations. Seems he's been stalking her for a while and has observed all these instances in which she's met up with the guy he's accusing her of sleeping with. (Evidently, Elissa's helping the guy plan a surprise birthday party for his wife, June. Suuuuuuuuure, Wade thinks. Likely story!) Elissa points out that what Wade is doing is called sexual harrassment and that it's illegal, but that doesn't seem to bother him much, because he's one of those jerkwads who seems to believe that if HE can't have her, NOBODY can have her. (Seriously...I kept expecting him to whip out a bowie knife, in true Lifetime Movie of the Week fashion, and start hacking her to bits screaming, "You're mine! Mine!" Scary stuff.) After thirty pages or so pages had passed and Elissa was still sitting there taking this crap off this major loser, I had to put the book down and walk away. Maybe it gets better, but I just don't see how it could, and I don't have enough masochistic interest to find out.