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reread, paranormal, romance, murder, crime, social-issues

This one is also after Perfect Poison, and does have appearances by the founders of the Jones Agency. As we see in the publisher's blurb, the crime boss meets a social reformer who is able to assist him with an apparent genetic issue. There is much interweaving with previous Arcane Society books, and the Sweetwater family is introduced at the end. I like it and reread it every couple of years.


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Burning Lamp Number 8 in series Arcane Society Frances Murray 9780749952860 Books Reviews

This book is in the Victorian era, the second book of a trilogy inside the Arcane Society series!

Adelaide Pyne was 15 when her parents died. Her parents had been members of the Arcane Society, (created to study psychic powers), and she can read dreamlight. The man who controlled her inheritance told her he was sending her to an orphanage for young ladies. Instead, he sold her to a brothel and stole the money! She escaped from the brothel with a lamp a 'customer' had brought to her room, still a virgin, and went to America. Years later, she felt compelled to return to England, and has spent her time rescuing girls from brothels. She is known only as 'The Widow', dresses in mourning, and keeps her face veiled. She creates new identities for them and has set up an academy to teach them a trade.

Griffin Winters, also a teenager when his Arcane Society parents were murdered, took to the streets and became a crime lord. As he did not deal in prostitution, Adelaide had not encountered him. He, however, had been tracking her and discovered that she could read dreamlight. He has been desperately searching for the lamp and a dreamlight reader as he has turned 36 and is having nightmares and hallucinations, a curse that runs through the males of the Winters family. He asks a mutual friend to set up a meeting with her. He can veil himself in shadows, she never shows her face.

When they meet, he tells her that she is in danger because her raids are becoming predictable, and that she must stop. He also tells her that he needs help to find the lamp, and for her to help him work it. As she already has the lamp and he explains that he will go insane if she won't help him, she agrees. He tells her that he is getting another talent, and that the Arcane Society will have him killed if he does, as it assumes he will go rogue. He shuts off the shadows, and asks her to lift her veil, which she does. They study each other.

The customer who had originally tracked her to the brothel, is again searching for her and the lamp. He is known only as Mr. Smith, and is a high ranking Arcane member.

Griffin is shot rescuing Adelaide from a kidnapping. She takes him in and treats him. It turns out that she had spent time in America in a 'wild west show' and had learned a lot of things about gunshot wounds and guns! He recovers but is furious when he finds out that Mrs Jones, of Jones & Jones Agency, had been called in to treat him. Jones & Jones work for the Arcane Society!

The story is full of adventure and intrigue and romance. I don't want to go into more details as it might spoil the book for you, but I loved it. Krentz/Quick books are always fun to read.

The third book in the trilogy, 'Midnight Crystal', is in the future and on another planet. I've already pre-ordered it!
I enjoyed this writer's style of writing, the book had plenty of interesting concepts and twists and turns. Kept me curious to the end.
Arcane Society series is one of the best written and enjoyable series that JAK/Quick/Castle has put together.I understand why she's put a hold on doing more with 3 names and only continued with the stories using the Castle name, but it's still like losing your family. She has no plans at this time to continue, other than under Castle. (PSYCHIC SERIES)
I love the Arcane series and how Krentz has broken it up into trilogies using her own name and her pseudonyms of Castle and Quick. Each new trilogy has a connecting thread through the 19th century by Quick, 21st century by Krentz and on Harmony by Castle. The whole series is connected by the Arcane Society.

As usual, she writes a fast paced, well put together story that keeps the reader glued to the page. I have a hard time putting the book down until I have zipped through it the first time. I always read her books a second time to pick up the details.

Burning Lamp is a great read. Go for it!
While I am still enjoying these novels, they are becoming a little repetitive. Enjoyable if you want something easy to read. 2.75 stars
I really enjoyed reading Burning Lamp Book Two in the Dreamlight by Amanda Quick. I have quite a number of Amanda Quick's novels. I especially love the ones that involve the Arcane Society and all of the characters (major ones and minor ones) in her novels.
Burning Lamp takes a step back in time and revisits the story of another of Nicholas Winters' descendants in search of the 'lamp' and the woman with the Dreamlight power to 'work it' in order to save him from madness as the Winter curse kicks in. A big bonus of course is, although Griffin Winters has inherited the curse, he hasn't inherited his insane ancestor's luck with women.

Up front I have to say that I am not a huge fan of historicals, and although I love Quick's Harmony series and the contemporary Arcane Society books written under her Krentz and Castle nom-de-plumes, I just didn't love this one as much. I am guessing the reason is that the constraints of behavior, in keeping with the historical rendering of the tale, also constrain the sensual intensity of the pairing in this one - I normally love the 'burn'ing physicality of Krentz/Castle's heroes.

For that reason, I didn't loveBurning Lamp, however, I still liked it and thought it a worthwhile read as the second book in the Dreamlight trilogy. And there were parts that I very much enjoyed. I thought that, even though reserved, the heroine, Adelaide Pyne, was wonderful - smart and in control and I loved her back story in the American Old West. I also loved the Joneses, the Harpers and the reference to the Sweetwaters.

So now I am looking forward (way forward) to another trip to Castle's futuristic Harmony and the conclusion of the trilogy with the final Winters' male (and mate) in Midnight Crystal (Ghost Hunters, Book 7) in August 2010.
reread, paranormal, romance, murder, crime, social-issues

This one is also after Perfect Poison, and does have appearances by the founders of the Jones Agency. As we see in the publisher's blurb, the crime boss meets a social reformer who is able to assist him with an apparent genetic issue. There is much interweaving with previous Arcane Society books, and the Sweetwater family is introduced at the end. I like it and reread it every couple of years.