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Canyons Of Night (2011)

by Jayne Castle(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0749956070 (ISBN13: 9780749956073)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Piatkus

series

Rainshadow

review 1: Setting: Rainshadow Island – Looking Glass Antiques, her house, his house, the Preserve (more to come), sheriff’s office, the bay/ferryTheme: adjusting to change in talent – from expecting its loss to its exponential; shifting priorities; trusting one’s talent in spite of others; falling in love; Characters:Charlotte Enright: reads auras + - sees rainbow, and how they resonate in one… and can fine tune the resonance of an object (especially an antique one) to match a clients – guided by her talent; her talent not respected by most… but she knows herself, and has gained confidence; she ran a successful,l antiquities store, using her talent for happy customers; has taken over aunt’s store on island;Slade Attridge: hunter; current chief of police, ex FBI spec... moreial forces – tracking psy killers; was zapped by some strange psy in last case, and his talent is failing… takes job in Rainshadow with expectation of leaving in 6 months and opening a PI agency – as he believes his talent will be gone in 6 months; Rex: dust bunny, who attached self to Slade… and confiscated a rhinestone clutch that he carries everywhere; watches over Slade (even sleeping in bed after Slade crashed after overusing his talent);Myrna: police station secretary; Devon’s grandmother; looking for ways to keep Slade, and pushes Charlotte at him;Devon: 13 years old; being raised by grandmother, coming into his talent, and in drawn to Slade; too timid to go into Charlotte’s store, he wanders in one night when the door wasn’t locked… Slade could read his energy when Charlotte reported a break in, and goes to Devon and encourages him to talk to Charlotte – he does, and Charlotte gives him a compass (that her intuition was matches him), in trade for him helping her organize the shop;Thelma Duncan: she has an abundant garden, providing zucchini bread out the gazoo; seems like a kindly, elderly woman, but in fact she and her two hoodlum sons are magic antiquity thieves, using the Preserve to hide some of their activities; somehow they have a few of Bridewell’s clockwork weapons; Adam & Marlowe: from last book – where they saved the word… gearing up for their wedding – helping out Slade; recruit him for Jones investigations;Jasper & Gilbert: ex Guild, retired to Rainshadow, watching over Preserve; artist and gallery owner/businessman; hmmm doing more watching than helping…Randolph Sebastian: book endre… hmmmmng ‘buried’ ts with Slade calling him… his family owns the Preserve; and he’s hiding somethSummary:When 16 year old Charlotte, and 18 year old orphaned/fostered Slade were both on Rainshadow for the summer, there was an awareness of one another, but too shy to act… until the night before he was going to join the FBI training… he rescues her from townie boys harassing her, they talked, and she saw him off, meeting him at the ferry, and gifting him with an antiquity knife… 15 years later, she’s back, having inherited her aunt’s shop, and he needs a reprieve and plans to stay 6 months, line up his ducks, and leave…The town wants to keep him, and figure Charlotte is their best bet to keep him when they observe the attraction… and they work together to solve small crimes that end up to represent big crimes… and her talent, undervalued by all, allows her to see that his talent core is strong and steady and she comes to the conclusion that his talent is expanding instead, and though he doesn’t trust it at first, he ends up believing her; He rescues the boys, who came on to smugglers and hid in the Preserve… they target him, and he gets caught in the Bridewell doll clutches, barely holding on, but then defeating it, but then the bad guys have her (she’d ‘felt’ his need, and went to him) so he saves her, using his new talent to strip them of theirs; she knows she wants him in her life… and knows to give him space… And in the end, they get the smugglers (and their mom – the murderer)… and he’s found home… But what is up with the Preserve?
review 2: This one, third in the series, is futuristic, though it was a bit hard to tell. It uses an often used formula...bad boy goes off and then returns after making good and being injured, girl is still waiting/has returned to the same place...and it's done quite well. It's the futuristic part that seems a bit awkward, I think. The bad guys are discovered and ousted! The boys are rescued! And the "girl back home" helps "bad boy" discover his hidden strengths to win the day! Believe it or not, I really liked this book, even if it was formula! less

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