The Silver Snare [Paperback]

Stephanie James (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 186 pages
• Publisher: Silhouette (1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671459880
• ISBN-13: 978-0671459888
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,114,975 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars sadly dated, October 12, 2004

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Deborah MacGillivray "Author," (US & UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Silver Snare (Paperback)

I utterly adore Jayne Ann and have all her books, but many of the Stephanie James were fading yellow and falling apart, so I was delighted when Silhouette began putting this SJ's out at a reason price. Thank you thank you.

But this one, to me, had problems with the female lead. She starts off interestingly. She is on a plane that crashes. A high powered business executive with a hotel chain, is used to giving orders and having every one follow.

However, from the first, Lucas Kinkaid declares he is the leader. Quickly, he pulls her aside and explains in order for them and the others to survive, there has to be one leader and that is him. She grudgingly backs down and accepts his alpha male leader role, even to the point of surrendering herself to him the night before they are rescued.

But she sees the surrender, the fact she gave up the power to snap her fingers and have people jump, as a deep wound, and when Lucan comes to find her again, she makes him PAY.

When he follows her on board a cruise ship, she coldblooded sets about to have an affair with him, just so she can put a choke-chain about his neck and yank it every time she wants him to come to heel. She is arrogant, smug and condescending. She sneers at the fact he eats steak and potatoes, is not a polished dancer, owns a pet store and wear cheap polyester pants, while she dresses in designer clothes, loves lobster and Brie and its quite at home in the penthouse of the cruise liner. She spends nearly half of the book making this poor guy jump through hoops just to salvage her ego and frankly. It made it so hard to connect with her, and I seriously wondered just what he saw in her.

Jayne's talent as a writer is the only thing that makes this one readable. She is a joy with the written word, and one of the best in this male-female sparring. So it's hard to see how out of formula this was ended up being.