Shield Lady edition by Jayne Ann Krentz Romance eBooks
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Legends can be dangerous, just ask Sariana Dayne. She sets out to hire one and wakes up married to him. It’s a marriage of infuriating inconvenience as far as Sariana is concerned.
Gryph Chassyn stirs all her senses but he’s one of the mysterious mercenaries known as Shields. Sensible women do not marry such men. But for Gryph, marrying Sariana is a matter of honor, passion and survival. He needs her in ways she cannot even imagine.
Before Sariana can find a way to escape the bond that has been forged between them, she and Gryph are caught up in a desperate quest to save their world. The future looks a little different but some things, like love and passion, and murder never change.
Shield Lady edition by Jayne Ann Krentz Romance eBooks
SHIELD'S LADY was first published in the 1980s under the pseudonym of Amanda Glass. I first read it then and the unique setting, story and characters appealed to me then and I found the book unforgettable. SHIELD'S LADY is a sci-fi futuristic romance set on the planet of Windarra. The planet inhabitants are settlers from earth who were stranded. The settlers were unintentionally divided during the landing between the east and the west where their societies developed separately. The east contained the business and intellectuals Alf the west consisted of the artists and craftsmen. It had been intended that the two groups would form a complete society. The two groups have found one another again and have just begin to interact.Sariana Dayne has come to the west in order to prove herself a competent businesswoman in order to return successfully to her family in the east. When she needs help she drugs and abducts Gryph Chassyn, a member of the mercenary class known as one of the Shields. The Shields are protectors in the west and have been genetically alerted to have some telepathic abilities that allow them to focus through prisms.
While Sariana is all business, Gryph recognizes her as one of the few women that Shields can marry and have children with. This story has the two protagonists nor understanding one another and working at cross purposes at first, but the two get to know one another, trust one another, work together and eventually love one another. In the process, the two discover they have a unique relationship.
Graph trends top be autocratic and at first dismissive of Sariana's strength. One of the things I like about this book is how he comes to appreciate her strength and unique abilities. I find the witty dialogue between the two makes me smile and I really feel in love with the two main characters.
This book Haas many of the harbingers of JAK's Harmony books written as Jayne Castle. There is also a measure of overlap with her Arcane books. Readers of those series may be interested in seeing how JAK was working on the concepts for those books here.
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Shield Lady edition by Jayne Ann Krentz Romance eBooks Reviews
I sometimes have difficulty getting into what I call science fiction romance, and to me this qualifies for that category, but I didn't have that problem with this book. It was written in a way that the science fiction aspects were easily understandable, and I could easily connect with the characters. There was relationship development and romance enough to balance out the sex scenes, and will definitely be on my "to read again" list.
This edition has multiple editing problems, including missing quotation and punctuation marks, and missing paragraph separations. However, there are no typos or spelling problems.
It is several hundred years since two space ships sent forth from Earth to found colonies on the planet Windarra crash landed on separate sections of the planet. Many lives were lost due to a huge explosion caused by a destructive form of light. One ship landed on an eastern continent and the other landed on a western continent, the survivors of each ship assuming the other ship was totally lost. The western group was saved by a mysterious group of humans called Shields who were able to work the source of the dangerous light, a crystal called prisma. The eastern group managed to survive without any help. The western group consisted of artists and inventors, and the eastern group contained business and accounting types. (If you are familiar with Myers-Briggs personality typing, the eastern group are ISTJ and the western group are ENFP.) The easterners evolved into a very formal, emotionally stifled society big on rules, and employing arranged marriages among clans/classes. The westerners evolved into a very colorful, emotional, expressive society with rules of their own, but less rigorously enforced. One particular rule was the contract between the westerners and the Shields.
The Shields have paid a price for their ability to work prisma. They are sterile except with a "Shieldmate," a special woman with whom they can form a type of psychic bond, called "linking," and even then they can only have sons. The contract with the western colonists allowed the Shields to seek a mate within the whole of the western society. They have no such contract with the eastern society. Unfortunately for the Shields, they have spent generations living on the rough frontier fighting bandits, and few western families want their daughters to unite with a Shield to go live far away in a very harsh setting.
It has only been a few years since the eastern and western contingents discovered each other. Sariana, the heroine, is from the eastern continent. She failed her entrance exams for university study and her pre-ordained track for her life was derailed in disgrace. Her fiance for an arranged marriage dumped her, and she has come to live among the westerners to try to restore her reputation and enable herself to reapply to the university for a career as a financial manager. At the start of the story, she has been working in that capacity for the flamboyant Avylyn clan, who are creators of flashy jewelery, but her entire success hangs in the balance if she cannot recover a stolen piece of crucial Avylyn artistic equipment, a prisma cutter.
All attempts to recover the stolen article fail and Sariana devises a desperate scheme. She has one of the clan drop a light hypnotic drug into the drink of a Shield, Gryph Chassyn, to put him in a more compliant mood so he will agree to help the Avylyns recover their prisma cutter. Unfortunately, the drug knocks out Gryph, and when he wakes up, the extremely confident Sariana realizes the "cure" for her problem may be worse than the "disease." Gryph is an incredibly sexy warrior who arouses emotions and desires in practical Sariana that she never knew she was capable of, and a single night of passion with Gryph leads to complications she never dreamed were possible.
I'm a big fan of Krentz. I've read almost everything she's ever written. My favorites are her paranormal romances, in particular her Harmony futuristics. It was a real treat to run across this book, which somehow I had missed. No doubt because it was originally published under the pseudonym, Amanda Glass, in June, 1989, under the Lovestruck imprint of Warner Books. It is considered the third book in the "Lost Colony" series (Crystal Flame published in 1986 is No. 1, and Sweet Starfire also published in 1986 is No. 2). In my own opinion, these books are not nearly as linked together as the Harmony books in terms of the worldbuilding, and they can definitely be read as stand-alone novels. This book has a completely resolved ending without any kind of cliffhanger.
Krentz began her career as a romance writer in 1979 and she has published over 120 novels. When this was written, she had been publishing about 10 years. This is a classic Krentz romance with a strong hero and a feisty heroine who is more than a match for him. One of Krentz's continual themes is the hero and heroine working together as a team to solve a mystery and overcome a dangerous villain. It is a formula that works extremely well for romantic suspense and never fails to entertain. However, by saying that, I don't mean to imply that Krentz is a "hack" or writes in a "formulaic" way. Rather, she allows the hero and heroine to uncover each other's true character, one of strong, sacrificial integrity, under circumstances of extreme adversity.
There are scenes of strong sensuality in this novel, but nothing very graphic. Krentz focuses on emotion more than sex for its own sake. The romantic conflict of two people from very different worlds finding a common ground to come together is extremely well done.
The worldbuilding in this novel is quite intriguing. I thoroughly enjoyed the society of the colorful, emotive westerners. The descriptions of their clothing and accessories, architecture, interior design, and inventions was fascinating and a lot of fun.
Fans of Krentz will not want to miss this novel, and fans of paranormal, and especially futuristic romance will enjoy it as well.
Sheild's Lady was your average type of story that you get from Jayne Ann Krentz (or Amanda Quick, Jayne Castle...) that was set in an unusual sci-fi universe. Since this was one of her earlier books I was hoping for something fresh and different. The plot was fairly decent, I can always stretch my imagination, but unfortunately I found the characters to be similar to a lot of other characters from other books- I have read about 15-20 from this author Our girl does not fit in conventional society, very smart, fiesty, bold, argumentative, and atypically pretty. Our guy also does not fit in conventional society, take-charge, arrogant, not quite handsome, and overprotective. These are standard traits and made them kind just okay. I also found the dialogue a bit cheesy at times, especially with calling her my "shieldlady" and other variations quite frequently and especially during intimate scenes.
So this gets three stars. Even though I find her characters cookie-cutter, usually the plots are very exciting and the dialogue a little less cheesy and always make for a good read. Not one of her best but one of the better out there for sci-fi romance. Thanks.
SHIELD'S LADY was first published in the 1980s under the pseudonym of Amanda Glass. I first read it then and the unique setting, story and characters appealed to me then and I found the book unforgettable. SHIELD'S LADY is a sci-fi futuristic romance set on the planet of Windarra. The planet inhabitants are settlers from earth who were stranded. The settlers were unintentionally divided during the landing between the east and the west where their societies developed separately. The east contained the business and intellectuals Alf the west consisted of the artists and craftsmen. It had been intended that the two groups would form a complete society. The two groups have found one another again and have just begin to interact.
Sariana Dayne has come to the west in order to prove herself a competent businesswoman in order to return successfully to her family in the east. When she needs help she drugs and abducts Gryph Chassyn, a member of the mercenary class known as one of the Shields. The Shields are protectors in the west and have been genetically alerted to have some telepathic abilities that allow them to focus through prisms.
While Sariana is all business, Gryph recognizes her as one of the few women that Shields can marry and have children with. This story has the two protagonists nor understanding one another and working at cross purposes at first, but the two get to know one another, trust one another, work together and eventually love one another. In the process, the two discover they have a unique relationship.
Graph trends top be autocratic and at first dismissive of Sariana's strength. One of the things I like about this book is how he comes to appreciate her strength and unique abilities. I find the witty dialogue between the two makes me smile and I really feel in love with the two main characters.
This book Haas many of the harbingers of JAK's Harmony books written as Jayne Castle. There is also a measure of overlap with her Arcane books. Readers of those series may be interested in seeing how JAK was working on the concepts for those books here.
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