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Illusion Town

por Jayne Castle

Series: Illusion Town (1), Rainshadow (5), Harmony World (13)

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Fantasy. Fiction. Romance. Science Fiction. HTML:A new adventure begins on Harmony 
 
With its opulent casinos and hotels, the desert city of Illusion Town is totally uniqueand will take you on a thrill ride youll never forget.
 
Hannah West isnt the first woman to wake up in Illusion Town married to a man she barely knows, but she has no memory of the ceremony at all. For that matter, neither does Elias Coppersmith, her new husband. All either can remember is that they were on the run
 
With Hannahs dubious background and shaky para-psych profile, she could have done much worse. The cooly competent mining heir arouses her curiosityas well as other parts of her mind and body. And even her dust bunny likes him.
 
But a honeymoon spent retracing their footsteps leads Hannah and Elias into the twisting underground catacombs, where secrets from both their pasts will come to lightand where the energy of their clashing auras will grow hot enough to burn.
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Illusion Town
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What happens in Illusion Town stay in Illusion Town - Nothing could shock quiet and unassuming Hannah West more than awakening to find herself married to a man she barely knows and with no memory of recent events. Her new husband, Elias Coppersmith, is suffering a similar affliction, and the two set out to learn the truth about what happened to them and why.

Series note: Elias is the elder brother of Rafe Coppersmith from the previous book, but the plot itself is stand-alone. There are also numerous references to other books in the Quick/Krentz/Castle repertoire, but these are only fun Easter Eggs and are unrelated to the events in the story.

Unfortunately, this is another lackluster entry in the Ghost Hunters series. While the premise of a couple waking up together married has tremendous potential, it ultimately falls flat as Hannah and Elias have zero chemistry, and the explanation of their predicament is provided almost immediately, which means there isn't much left to their "quest".

Most of the book revolves around a series of disconnected events leading up to an anti-climactic resolution with a pathetic villain. There is also too much rehashing of descriptions of Harmony and its various alien characteristics. If readers have made it to book #13, they surely know this by now and any new reader could pick it up quickly without the unnecessary repetition. Even Virgil the dust bunny couldn't save this one from its mediocrity.

Oh well... perhaps the next installment will be better as the hero is a Jones. ( )
  Lauren2013 | May 5, 2023 |
This gets an extra star because I got a big kick out of an Arizona Snow doll. In fact, the ARCANE carnival was maybe my favourite thing about the book. I appreciated the call back to so many of the ARCANE series' greatest hits. I liked the personalities of both characters and as usual there's a great supporting cast. It's familiar territory but one I love to visit. And it looks like a setup for a new part of Harmony to explore, which is also exciting. Can't wait for the next one!

Just one disappointment. I would have loved to know at the end who Hannah's ancestors were. They are obviously somehow tied to the ARCANE universe. ( )
  mktoronto | Jan 25, 2023 |
Hannah West is an orphan with a unique paranormal talent. She is a finder who recently found a family heirloom for Elias Coppersmith. They began an email relationship and Hannah finally agreed to meet him in person for a dinner date.

Neither expected to wake up the next morning in a hot sheets motel, missing memories, and evidence that they had undertaken a Marriage of Convenience. They knew that they were on the run from something but weren't sure what. Elias wanted her to use her skills to rescue some people who were trapped by an illusion spell in Ghost Town. So he thought they were being chased by people who didn't want his crew rescued.

But Hannah had recently completed a necklace which was her only inheritance from her mother and learned it was a psy map which led her to the long-missing Midnight Carnival which was built to house Arcane Society secrets and then lost. Hannah immediately filed her claim and believes her discovery is still a secret.

Unfortunately, Hannah's secret is known to one obsessed collector who will do anything to exploit the treasures of the Midnight Carnival.

After Hannah and Elias rescue his missing people and discover that there is a conspiracy to steal from the Coppersmiths, they are sidetracked into Elias's problems. Hannah believes that once his problems are solved, he will end their Marriage of Convenience. But Elias is in no hurry to end the marriage and jumps into helping Hannah solve her problem.

I enjoyed the way the romance built in this episode. I also enjoyed the way orphan Hannah had built her own family in the Dark Zone of Illusion Town. I liked her dust bunny Virgil who is a great companion. I also liked the references back to earlier books about the Arcane Society that make up attractions in the Midnight Carnival and include Virgil's toy Arizona Snow doll which becomes his constant companion.

This was another fun episode of Castle's futuristic paranormal romances set on the planet Harmony. ( )
  kmartin802 | Mar 14, 2021 |
DESCRIPTION, NOT REVIEW: A new adventure begins on Harmony…

With its opulent casinos and hotels, the desert city of Illusion Town is totally unique—and will take you on a thrill ride you’ll never forget.

Hannah West isn’t the first woman to wake up in Illusion Town married to a man she barely knows, but she has no memory of the ceremony at all. For that matter, neither does Elias Coppersmith, her new husband. All either can remember is that they were on the run…

With Hannah’s dubious background and shaky para-psych profile, she could have done much worse. The cooly competent mining heir arouses her curiosity—as well as other parts of her mind and body. And even her dust bunny likes him.

But a honeymoon spent retracing their footsteps leads Hannah and Elias into the twisting underground catacombs, where secrets from both their pasts will come to light—and where the energy of their clashing auras will grow hot enough to burn… ( )
  treehousereader | Feb 17, 2017 |
This book is one of Jayne Ann Krentz's science fiction Harmony books when a group of humans left earth and landed on the planet Harmony and set up a base there. But the curtain between the planet and earth would close and these colonists would be stuck with each other, for better or worse. Aliens had once lived on this planet long ago and left it. They are believed to have lived underground in the catacombs that are made of some kind of green mineral. Over the years, the humans began to develop psi abilities which allowed them to use amber to "rez up" things such as cars, microwaves, cell phones, locks, etc... Some would develop particularly strong psi talents that required the use of amber to do, such as tuning amber (it has a unique frequency and if you go into the catacombs without tuned amber you will wander around until you go mad and die), read auras, handle and create "ghosts", or UDEMs (electrical energy that manifests in the form of a ghost) in the catacombs, music talents, botany talents, the ability to find and handle minerals, the ability to use alien technology. The list is pretty endless. There are also dust bunnies, mysterious creatures with an endless apatite, who come and go as they please, collect the oddest things, and form attachments with humans. They have the loyalty of a dog who always knows when you need him and the independent streak and the insistence that you take care of his needs first of a cat. They're adorable.

The founders also insisted on what is called a Covenant Marriage. If you have one of these, it is nearly impossible to get out of. You can pay to get out of one, but you will be broke by the end of it. The founders believed that close connections were important if they were going to survive. And these days no one gets out of being nagged by some family member about getting a CM, even the gays. The founders also set up what is called a Marriage of Convenience, which was basically a classy way of saying you were shacking up with someone. It could be broken at any time, by either party.

This book takes place mainly in Illusion Town, a kind of Las Vegas whose motto is "Where the thrills are real." It is set out in eight zones: the Fire and Storm Zones are uninhabitable due to intense paranormal radiation, the more opulent casinos and nightclubs were in the Amber and Saphire Zones, the low-rent enter gambling establishments, and racier shows were in Amethyst and Emerald, the Dark Zone was a neighbourhood community with a few gambling places and clubs but was mostly where people who worked in the casinos lived, and the Shadow Zone was the least prosperous of the zones and whatever glamour it had was only visible at night and during the day the casinos were closed which is unheard of in the other zones.

HannahWest, a dreamlight talent who dream walks, has a shop set up where she is known as the Finder, since she is able to find lost objects. She was left with a couple Clara and Bernice who had a magic act together by her parents who died in a drug deal gone bad. Her mother left her with a crystal necklace that was to be her inheritance. Hannah has just found the missing piece of crystal which forms a map to the Midnight Carnival a very special find that she files a claim on.

The book opens with Hannah and one of her former clients, Elias Coppersmith finally agreeing to go out on a date. When Elias heads out he finds out something bad has happened and the promise he gave Hannah that he would not ask her for a favor goes down the drain. The next thing the two of them are in a cheap motel trying to remember what happened. Worse, Elias has a certificate on him that says the two of them are in and MC. What would possess them into getting an MC and what would cause them to lose their memories? The answer to the last question is quickly answered that they were psi-burned, which can cause memory loss. Now it's only a matter of trying to figure out what happened.

A fortune teller's slip of paper you would get at a carnival is in her purse and she believes that they must have gone to the Midnight Carnival and they quickly remember it was to escape the bikers. They figure out the bikers must have been trying to stop Hannah from working to help Elias's company who has men stuck behind a waterfall of dreamlight that was triggered while they were mining Ghost Town nearby. So they figure the best way to get the bikers and whoever is out to stop them is to get the job done. Of course, they don't realize the commotion their marriage will cause in the DZ (Dark Zone) where her family is or in Coppersmith's family or workplace.

The more Hannah tries to brush off the MC as nothing the angrier Elias gets. Both of them are falling for each other of course but Hannah cannot believe that she is capable of having a relationship with a man due to her dreamlight talent and he's a rich Coppersmith to boot. Elias on the other hand, does not see any obstacles. Of course when the job in Ghost Town becomes more complicated than it at first appeared and it seems that more people are after Hannah the two must learn to trust each other as never before in order to survive this ordeal, after all in Illusion Town the thrills are real.

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She hurried up the stairs, reminding herself that the two of them had been through worse during the night. They had been attacked by a motorcycle gang. They had been psi-burned. They had gotten married.

-Jayne Castle (Illusion Town p 100)

Hannah watched the very still men in the street. “Are they--?” “Alive.” Elias glanced at the devise in his hand. “I think. Still working out a few bugs in the crystal-ware. I didn’t want to risk using it with us inside the car, not at that power level. Too much chance of blowback. Might have taken us out, as well.” She swallowed hard. “I see. Wow. Okay. Who needs a bodyguard when you’ve got an engineer handy.”
-Jayne Castle (Illusion Town p 125)
“You’re not exactly normal. Neither am I. Coppersmiths don’t have a problem with not being normal. You could say it’s a family tradition.” “You don’t know how much that means to me,” she said. “Thank you.” “It’s not a compliment, damn it. It’s just a fact.” She smiled. “It’s the best gift you could have given me tonight.”

-Jayne Castle (Illusion Town p 147)

“Life is simple for a dust bunny,” he said, “It’s a priorities thing, I guess. What didn’t kill you in the past isn’t worth obsessing about and there’s not much point trying to anticipate what might try to kill you in the future.” Hannah wrinkled her nose. “Because whatever it is, it will probably come from the one direction you least expect it to come from.”
-Jayne Castle (Illusion Town p 206) ( )
  nicolewbrown | Dec 28, 2016 |
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Fantasy. Fiction. Romance. Science Fiction. HTML:A new adventure begins on Harmony 
 
With its opulent casinos and hotels, the desert city of Illusion Town is totally uniqueand will take you on a thrill ride youll never forget.
 
Hannah West isnt the first woman to wake up in Illusion Town married to a man she barely knows, but she has no memory of the ceremony at all. For that matter, neither does Elias Coppersmith, her new husband. All either can remember is that they were on the run
 
With Hannahs dubious background and shaky para-psych profile, she could have done much worse. The cooly competent mining heir arouses her curiosityas well as other parts of her mind and body. And even her dust bunny likes him.
 
But a honeymoon spent retracing their footsteps leads Hannah and Elias into the twisting underground catacombs, where secrets from both their pasts will come to lightand where the energy of their clashing auras will grow hot enough to burn.

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