Fired Up [Hardcover]

Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0749952563
• ISBN-13: 978-0749952563
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 9.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 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

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59 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as hot and fired up as some of her other Arcane books, January 3, 2010

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Deborah Verlen "Deborah" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fired Up: Book One of the Dreamlight Trilogy (Arcane Society, No. 7) (Hardcover)

I love many of Jayne Ann Krentz's books, but this is not one of them. It features the hero Jack Winters, a descendant of the renegade psychic Nicholas Winters who's descendnts Jones and Jones have been monitoring to make sure they do not use their psychic gifts for harm. When descendants reach their mid-thirties they sometimes pick up a second gift and descend into madness. Jack has now discovered a second psychic gift that he hopes will be eradicated via the Burning Lamp. First, however, Jack has to find the lamp. He turns to Chloe Harper, a private investigator, with a family background of psychics. Her ability is as a sensitive to dreamlight and its psychic imprints. She finds the lamp for Jack and together they end up battling some evil followers of Nightshade.

While I found the story a bit laborious in terms of trying to remember what went on with Arcane, J&J, and the various legends alluded to in previous books, the story did flow. We also get a more indepth look at Fallon Jones who has appeared in most of the Arcane-based books. I am assuming his story will be out soon too. Ms. Krentz does a good job of fleshing out her psychic aspects of her stories and her characters stay "in character" in terms of their abilities.

I struggled with whether to give the book three or four stars. I don't really care for Krentz's deeper journeys into the psychic realm, but do like her writing style. It is my understanding this is the first of a trilogy with the second book going back to the Victorian era (not sure if it is under Krentz or Amanda Quick) and the last set in the future (again not sure if it will be a Krentz or a Castle book). Personally I wish Krentz would write a few more books like Trust Me and Absolutely, Positively rather than focus on the paranormal.

A good read if you like Krentz and the paranormal. An okay read if you like Krentz, but don't care for the paranormal aspects.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Just a bit flat..., January 5, 2010

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Sheila Dayton (Rockford, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fired Up: Book One of the Dreamlight Trilogy (Arcane Society, No. 7) (Hardcover)

Let me preface my comments by saying I am a huge fan of Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle...and in the really old days...Stephanie James (dating myself there!) I just did a quick inventory of my bookshelf and stopped counting at 90 of her books. What has always amazed me about Ms. Krentz is the huge variety in the story lines and (perhaps with the exception of the Stephanie James books) their originality, freshness and just plain sizzle...and not just in the steamy bits. It boggles the mind to think how one person has so many unique stories inside her, and how she can just reach out and suck her readers right into the pages of the book. Her characters just sparkle. So...anyway...you get the picture...I love her books.

But I've got to say about this one -- not so much. I won't summarize the plot, as most of the other reviewers have already more than covered that waterfront. And while the story line on Fired Up is fair enough...the book as a whole just lacks the zippiness of her usual style. Even the "steamy bits" were more lukewarm than steamy. The characters seemed to lack depth -- and I found myself thinking about previous books, story lines...the laundry...all kinds of things when I was reading it. And usually with Ms. Krentz's books, I am so totally immersed in the story that the house could be falling down around my ears and I'm oblivious.

Not to say that I wouldn't have bought this one anyway...but it made me a bit sad...having put it on pre-order in June of last year, I was really looking forward to it. I guess I'll l keep my fingers crossed for the second in this trilogy, and hope that maybe it will pick up there.

And to the reviewer who drove 2 hours and paid 20 bucks...well gee...since you could have had it delivered to your house by Amazon for less than that, inclusive of shipping, I guess you do regret it...

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Definitely not Krentz's usual style, January 3, 2010

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PamelaJ (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fired Up: Book One of the Dreamlight Trilogy (Arcane Society, No. 7) (Hardcover)

I agree, this book definitely isn't in JAK's usual style. However, having said that, if you are a fan, you will have to read it and the subsequent 2 books that will soon be available. Considering all of the wonderful books she has entertained me w/over the years, I have to stay loyal. I took a break from re-reading Light in Shadow (Zoe and Ethan Truax) to read Fired Up. I wanted to ditch Fired Up and go back to Light in Shadow! But I persevered. Neither Jack nor Chloe are anything like her usual characters. I'm sure there's a lot of pressure from her publisher to push out books. Not every book can be a winner...