A new book year
Jan. 11th, 2010 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljTime to start a new list of books read. Last year i managed 31. I really do want to try to read more at night before bed. Currently i mainly read on the bus to and from work, sometimes while i'm having lunch at work as well. I do read at home in bed but not as often as i really would like to so maybe that can be a resolution of sorts.
2010 Books. #1 The Third Circle by Amanda Quick.
Starting off the year with a bit of a disappointment. I don't usually read much of her (aka Jayne Anne Krentz) but this hard cover was on the cheap shelves and those are usually cheaper than paperback prices these days. It's a historical romance/suspense about a woman who can manipulate the power of crystals and a man that does mesmerizing and hypnotism. They are both after the same powerful crystal and both break into a mansion where they suspect it's been hidden by the man that stole it. In the process, they find a woman who's been killed. Seems there's a serial killer on the loose who may or may not also be working for the crystal thief. (Oh, we're in Victorian London). The couple do manage to find the crystal but they both want it. She says it was hers via her family and he says it should go to the Arcane Society, an organization of people with psychic abilities of various types, who owned it for centuries. She has it but it gets re-stolen and they must find it. The Third Circle seems to be an elite group of people from the Arcane Society who are corrupt and power mad and need the crystal for their own nefarious purposes but that doesn't seem to come up at all until near the end of the book so why the title is that, i have no idea. The plot is pretty loose and full of holes and i didn't really buy into the romance all that much for some reason. All in all it was a bit flat really.
2010 Books. #1 The Third Circle by Amanda Quick.
Starting off the year with a bit of a disappointment. I don't usually read much of her (aka Jayne Anne Krentz) but this hard cover was on the cheap shelves and those are usually cheaper than paperback prices these days. It's a historical romance/suspense about a woman who can manipulate the power of crystals and a man that does mesmerizing and hypnotism. They are both after the same powerful crystal and both break into a mansion where they suspect it's been hidden by the man that stole it. In the process, they find a woman who's been killed. Seems there's a serial killer on the loose who may or may not also be working for the crystal thief. (Oh, we're in Victorian London). The couple do manage to find the crystal but they both want it. She says it was hers via her family and he says it should go to the Arcane Society, an organization of people with psychic abilities of various types, who owned it for centuries. She has it but it gets re-stolen and they must find it. The Third Circle seems to be an elite group of people from the Arcane Society who are corrupt and power mad and need the crystal for their own nefarious purposes but that doesn't seem to come up at all until near the end of the book so why the title is that, i have no idea. The plot is pretty loose and full of holes and i didn't really buy into the romance all that much for some reason. All in all it was a bit flat really.
