Falling Awake [Paperback]

Jayne Ann Krentz (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio (1980)
• ASIN: B000N656S2
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)

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.

Building on the success of her DREAMLIGHT TRILOGY in 2010, Jayne is now focused on writing the LOOKING GLASS TRILOGY. This series will follow the Quicksilver Mirror (a paranormal artifact) through all three of Jayne's worlds covering a time span of several hundred years.

The first LOOKING GLASS book, IN TOO DEEP, will feature Fallon Jones, a recurring character from Jayne's contemporary ARCANE SOCIETY series of novels.

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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing, December 18, 2004

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G. Greene - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Falling Awake (Hardcover)

This is a good (but not great) JAK novel. All of the wonderful writing that one expects from her is present, and the book is well plotted and extremely well researched. It may lack a little of the magic of her best work, but it is still a very good read and better than most of the books in this genre that you will find on the market today. I would have liked a somewhat stronger heroine, and the book does start out a little slow. These are minor considerations; the really fascinating dream research more than compensates for these small lacks.

Definitely recommended.

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deftly woven tale, December 1, 2004

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A. Dolan (Malden, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Falling Awake (Hardcover)

As other reviewers have said, this is one of JAK's finest - several story threads, woven together in an tight, unexpected way, with plenty of her signature humor and intelligent dialog. Other reviewers have ably described the plot. Although the Publisher's Weekly editorial says the story is 'based on psychology that defies reason', I suggest that JAK has pushed the bounds of believability no more than any good writer. In fact, on page 215, JAK lists several dream research authors - all of whom can be found on Amazon! If you enjoy JAK, or Jayne Castle, there's no reason not to add this to your library.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Falling Awake, March 25, 2008

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Kelly "Reviewer for The Sinfully Sensuous" (Littleton, Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Falling Awake (Hardcover)

Isabel Wright analyzes dreams at the Belvedere Center for Sleep Research. Her work is very high level and no one is privy to what her work actually entails. She has the uncanny ability to not only interpret dreams but correct things that go wrong in them. She currently only has two clients, but she has been helping them since she has been at the center. The dreams that she has been working on disturb her, and she secretly has a crush on one of her clients that she only knows as Client #2. When Dr Belvedere is found dead, and his son takes over the center, he fires Isabel thinking her type of work is frivolous and against the reputation he wants to build at Belvedere.

Client #2 is Ellis Cutler. He has used Isabel's talents to solve police cases that are unsolvable, and has recently relocated to California to be near Isabel. He feels the same connection to her, as she does to him. When he finds out her employment has been terminated, he decides to get close to her in order to bring her on with his former employer. Ellis wants Isabel to help him solve a murder, and doesn't hesitate to use her to do it, but when Isabel becomes the next potential victim, he vows to protect her. When Ellis and Isabel discover that Dr. Belvedere was indeed murdered, the need to solve these mysteries becomes paramount.

I thought that the chemistry was lacking between Ellis and Isabel. It was not written to be very believable for two people to fall in love in their dreams in such a short time, and so I wasn't buying the story from the beginning.