Adorkable Musings

During the holidays, it wasn’t easy to focus on reading.  Thus, there is a delay in this week’s book review.  This week’s author is one of my favorites; I have read most of their catalog.  Even the ones that she has written under different pen names.  This week’s book is People in Glass Houses by Jayne Castle (Jayne Ann Krentz).  I have been reading this author’s books since high school.  My favorites are the Regency books she wrote under the name Amanda Quick.  The books she writes under Jayne Castle are more of a Sci-Fi thriller romance.  This book is part of a series called Harmony.  Where people from Earth went to the mysterious planet Harmony when a gate opened on Earth.  After a time, the gate shut, leaving people on the planet Harmony cut off from Earth.  This book is the seventeenth book in the series.

Molly Griffin’s sister is missing.  She went on an expedition with her team, and they vanished.  The only person with any idea of where the team is has no memory of the event, leading to the team disappearing.  Molly’s determination, along with her pet dust bunny, slips Joshua Knight with the intent to help him get his memory back.  Of course, it’s not that easy.  There is the mysterious glass house that Joshua lives in, which he dubs the fun house.  The house has its way of getting people out.  Going in and out of the underworld and walking through dreams makes for a good story.  When you add the Griffin’s family dynamic, you get a strong group of women who take care of themselves.

One of the things that I love about Mrs. Castle’s books is that the female is competent.  This is not a damsel in distress situation.  While the guys are strong on their own, the women are the ones who make stuff happen.  Growing up, one particular author always made the female protagonist a damsel in distress.  Something was always wrong, and she needed someone to help save her.  After a while, it gets stale.  I love that many romance novels now make the female a stronger person.  The help is great, but they will figure it out on their own.

While I would recommend this book, the downside is that reading the ones before would greatly help you understand Harmony’s lore.  Like I said earlier, this is the seventeenth book.  In addition, some of the families in Mrs. Castle’s other books, written under the name Amanda Quick, also appear in this series.  So that would add to your to-be-read list.  Not everyone has the patience to do that.