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Book Review By Melissa Cookson
After Glow by Jayne Castle

Lydia Smith, former respected para-archaelogist and now a fun-house employee, is once again in trouble. A man who was supposed to help her figure out what happened to her years ago that gave her amnesia and destroyed her career turns out to be dead. She and Emmett, her lover, have to face other deaths, as well as a cult. Lydia and Emmett also have to work through their relationship, which is made more complicated by the fact that Emmett has been named the acting Guild boss.

Lydia wants nothing to do with the Guild, and Emmett is worried that she'll use his position as an excuse to leave him. He wants to marry her, a Covenant Marriage, which is permanent and a serious business on a planet where a divorce is nearly impossible to get. He just has to convince Lydia that she wants the marriage as much as he does, while they both try to catch a killer and find out exactly what happened to Lydia all those years ago. There is supposedly archaeology in this book, but the things the archaeologists do more closely resemble the things that looters do than anything.


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story
Action/suspense subplot? Yes
Action:
Inner struggle subplot Yes
Struggle with...
Fantasy/Magic Yes
Fantasy World Romance Yes

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Age/status: - 20's-30's

Main Female Character - 20's-30's
Profession/status:

Setting
City? Yes

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
What % of story is romance related? - 70%
How explicit is the sex? - descript of kissing - actual description of sex
Focus of story - equally on him and her
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 1-2 sex acts
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