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Originally Posted by Blossom
I don't get why authors are feeling pressure to add technology to books that were written at a time when there wasn't any. Just put the date at the top of the first chapter so the readers knows that not everyone had a cell phone in the 90s. Another problem was how the heroine would have not known the hero was now famous because of Google. The internet wasn't as popular back then either. This is why I still buy paperbacks, I want the originals.
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Agree 100%. Plus if the characters had access to a cell phone or Google in those days it would change major plot points. I remember being upset that Jennifer Greene "updated/revised" her old Jove Second Chance at Love titles when she published them digitally with Carina. They are all in my TBR pile to be reread (I read them originally in print in the late 80s), but wish they had been left as is.
Harlequin did this for a while when they republished print titles (changing albumn to CD and then to MP3 for example). If you change that one element is has a domino effect IMO.
I want the original book, just in digital.
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Originally Posted by Blossom
I have her book Midnight Jewels I just noticed. Any more recommendations on her Contemporary titles? I'll add them to my TBR list. I have the lost Colony series first two books.
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My favorites by her are
- Absolutely, Positively (contemporary as JAK)
- Trust Me (contemporary as JAK)
- Wildest Hearts (contemporary as JAK)
- Grand Passion (contemporary as JAK)
- Perfect Partners (contemporary as JAK)
- Family Man (contemporary as JAK)
- Lost & Found (contemporary as JAK)
- Flash (contemporary as JAK)
- Hidden Talents (contemporary as JAK)
- Falling Awake (contemporary paranormal-lite as JAK)
- Fabulous Beast (Silhouette Desire as Stephanie James)
- Cautious Lover (Silhouette Desire as Stephanie James)
- Second Wife (Silhouette Desire as Stephanie James)
- The Devil to Pay (Silhouette Desire as Stephanie James)
- Green Fire (Silhouette Desire as Stephanie James)
- Guinevere Jones mysteries: The Desperate Game/The Chilling Deception/The Sinister Touch/The Fatal Fortune (contemporary as Jayne Castle)
- Deception (historical as Amanda Quick)
- Scandal (historical as Amanda Quick)
- Ravished (historical as Amanda Quick)
- Deception (historical as Amanda Quick)
- Mischief (historical as Amanda Quick)
- Mystique (historical as Amanda Quick)
- Dangerous (historical as Amanda Quick)
- Reckless (historical as Amanda Quick)
- Surrender (historical as Amanda Quick)
- Seduction (historical as Amanda Quick)
- Psynergey trilogy: Amaryllis/Zinnia/Orchid (futuristic as Jayne Castle)
I'll stop now. If you like futuristics you may also like her World of Harmony/Ghost Hunters series which was then brought into the long-running Arcane series.
She has a lot of humor in her books. And though some of her books are technically murder mysteries, they are more Murder, She Wrote/British drawing room detective type stories in that the murders happen off page, no really gory scenes, etc (if that makes any sense). But as I said she's written in a wide variety of subgenres over her long career.