From the bestselling author of "Tonight or Never" comes the tale of a reporter and the physicist she's sent to interview--and it's turn into the sizzling story of true love and passion.
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is hands-down, my all-time favourate romance!,
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This review is from: High Energy (Mass Market Paperback)
This is my first Dara Joy book, and if this is any indication of her writing talent, it won't be my last. This is, hands-down, my all-time favourate romance! It has wit, romance, two very likable main characters and a host of supporting players worthy of their own book. (That's my subtle hint to you, Ms. Joy, if you're reading this -- please write a book for Mills and Gregor! That's a super couple just waiting to happen!) I have had crushes on other heroes before, but Tyber Evans is my perfect man (can I help it if I have a weakness for drop-dead gorgeous rocket scientists with a wicked sense of humor?) Tyber and Zanita (hate their names, but love the couple) remind me of those power couples of the 30's screwball comedies. In fact, they are the Nick and Nora for the 90's! Please, Ms. Joy, consider writing sequels for this couple. I would love to read about their continuing adventures!If you are looking for a smart, funny contemporary romance HIGH ENERGY is it.
27 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Tyber Evans is my favorite romance novel hero!,
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This review is from: High Energy (Mass Market Paperback)
Tyberius Augustus Evans is gorgeous, brilliant, rich, kind to animals, small children and kooks, sexy, eccentric, and secure enough in himself to fall utterly and completely in love. This is a fantasy hero - no real man could ever compete with Tyber. There's no angst here, no dark and brooding secrets, simply the perfect man. When an author writes a romance with a hero such as this, the heroine has to be handled correctly. I mean, what we've read before tells us that if she falls too hard and too fast, there will be no conflict and therefore no story. Did Dara Joy follow that steadfast rule? Not on your life. The set-up for Zanita, our heroine, is that she's never experienced fulfillment because she's always held herself back, never allowed herself to become befuddled. Her best friend has advised her that she'll know when it's the real thing when she jumps in feet first. Which is precisely what happens; Zanita falls for Tyber asap, and before she knows it, she's completely befuddled. Ah, you say, if she's befuddled, does that make her too stupid to live? Well, I certainly didn't think so. She didn't get herself into situations she couldn't get out of, although the hero's mastery prevented many of the situations from getting out of control (just another reason to love him!) Humorous romances require quirkiness of character. Zanita, as Tyber puts it, is a genius in non-linear thinking. Perhaps I relate to her; my husband says I get from A to C via Q. My synapses fire differently than most. So do Zanita's (okay, so her name is a bit on the zany side, but I can live with that!). So, does her befuddled-ness annoy our hero? In many romances, it does, and that's where the humor generally is found - think Bewitching or A Basket of Wishes. In this book, Tyber knows Zanita's non-linear thinking is what is drawing him in to her and he's secure enough to go along for the ride. She knows he's eccentric but is living her friend's advice - she's jumped in without thinking, and for once, her love life is working. There's great humor there. So we've got a great hero, a befuddled heroine, humor. . . did I mention great sex? Well, sort of, because Zanita, who never experienced fulfillment, is fulfilled quite a bit. From what I gather, Dara Joy's other books are quite a bit more explicit than this one, but, believe me, Tyber's brilliance isn't limited to the laboratory. Not only that, he knows Zanita is the one for him, and the way he brings her along is masterful. So, we've got a great hero, a befuddled heroine, humor, great sex. . . where's the conflict? We all know that there has to be conflict for a romance to work. Without that tension, it's a bore, right? I mean, haven't we read books where the hero and heroine get along so well that it's like talking a walk in the garden? Well, it's a lovely walk, but after about an hour, you start to wonder, "Okay, this is fine, but what else is there?" Dara Joy created a small amount of conflict for Tyber and Zanita by creating conflict within Zanita, who has a hard time taking Tyber's commitment to her at face value. And, the author created external conflict as well - a problem and a mystery for the two characters to resolve that falls outside their relationship. It is, in essence, what keeps them together initially. The author also creates a bit of extra fun in the characters of Mills and Gregor, whose one meeting is filled with some of the best bickering I've ever read - I look forward to reading their romance one day! This romance is a wonderful piece of fluff, and if you have the requisite sense of humor to enjoy fluff, I strongly recommend High Energy. TTFN, Laurie Likes Books Publisher, All About Romance (This review drawn from the October 20, 1991 issue of Laurie's News & Views column now known as At the Back Fence, at All About Romance)
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Strange -- Dara's best was one of her earliest,
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This review is from: High Energy (Mass Market Paperback)
Rarely does an author hit her stride so well on only her second (?) novel ever published. I had read the entire matrix of destiny trilogy before I ever got to High Energy, and loved the quirky characters that Dara has such a talent for introducing. So imagine my surprise when the least sci-fi of her romances -- if it can be called sci-fi at all -- turned out to have the most imaginitive and witty chemistry! Tyber and Zanita have a classic "George and Gracie" dialog thing going, and they are both too lovable. Tyber's only fault from this reader's perspective is a somewhat condescending attitude toward Zanita's career as a reporter for the local paper. Hey, almost perfect is a heck of a lot better than most of the run of the mill jerks that pose for romance heroes. Zanita is the only female in the known universe non-linear (read: weird) enough to confound him. Together they create a delightful duo, setting forth to solve a mystery involving a local con artist. A note to Matrix of Destiny fans: There's just enough left unexplained and hinted at to cause me to doubt that Tyber is entirely human; his Familiar-like cat is the best allusion to the Matrix of Destiny trilogy that Dara could have thrown in . Not to mention his eccentric lifestyle and the fact that he is an extraordinaryily gifted genius/Renaissance man. Perhaps this is the seed for a future tie-in novel between the two universes. We can only hope.
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