I took while to pick up Jayne Ann Krentz’s
When All The Girls Have Gone, which
is totally unlike me as I usually have them pre-ordered the second they become
available. When I ran into it at the
bookstore a couple weeks ago, whilst picking up an Amanda Quick novel (I’m
going through a regency phase again) I decided it was high time to devour
it. And so I did.
It took about four hours, with a few breaks
for deep breathing, but I managed to finish it with minimal nervous
sweating. I’m one of those people who
watches a movie and then gets so panicked half way through that I look up the
ending. That’s just how I roll and it
endlessly annoys my husband.
Anyways, When
All The Girls Have Gone is like any other Jayne Ann Krentz novel. It’s amazing.
Sure, they all follow somewhat the same structure as far as mysteries
go, but somehow I’m never able to guess who the criminal is. Just when I think I’m narrowing in on the
killer boom there’s a twist and it
turns out to be someone I never expected.
Then even when you know for certain who it is she still manages to throw
some surprises in.
Charlotte Sawyer is your typical every day
woman. She goes to work, she goes home,
she gets left by her fiancé days before her wedding. The usual.
Everyone thinks Charlotte is predictable, even boring. And sure, compared to her spontaneous,
exciting, beautiful sister, she probably is.
But when Jocelyn’s friend dies of suspicious circumstances, and Jocelyn
vanishes, Charlotte combines forces with private investigator Max Cutler to
figure out just what is going on inside that secretive women’s investment club
Jocelyn’s a part of. Together they work
their way through a complicated mystery, filled with twists and turns and
misdirection. And if they find each
other attractive, that’s perfectly natural.
But as their journey continues they find it harder and harder to ignore
the romance building between them.
I mean, how can you not love how that
sounds? Charlotte isn’t the brave,
out-going, typically strong woman
that Jayne Ann Krentz usually writes about.
She’s just a normal woman thrust into a situation she has no idea how to
handle...at first. As the book goes on
Charlotte starts to learn how to stand up for herself, how to be strong, and
best of all, how to be comfortable in her own skin.
It’s not my favorite Jayne Ann Krentz
novel. Maybe not even my top 5 (I’m
pretty loyal to the first 5 I ever read), but it was a delightful read and I’ll
absolutely read it again.