Jayne Castle introduced her unique Harmony world in Bridal Jitters. The story itself is good, not great, however she managed to include a lot of information in a novella about people.
Virginia Burch and Sam Gage are partners, offering a combination service to people exploring the vast underground catacomb under the dead alien city Cadence. Their first client hires Virginia and Sam to remove a large ghost waterfall, but some of the client’s hired hunters instead try to kill them. They escape into what may be an alien cemetery, and eventually turn the tables on their attackers.
Sam and Virginia are not as real as most of Castle’s characters, their romance reads more distant. There are several sex scenes but not a lot that would tell us why they fall in love.
Jayne Castle has a true gift for creating characters we care about and who feel real, and sometimes her stories are so engrossing that it feels as if we are experiencing the characters’ lives, not simply reading about them. Bridal Jitters doesn’t deliver at her usual level, possibly due to the length and the fact she packed in a great deal of background on Harmony.
It’s still a decent story and a very fast read. My library offers Bridal Jitters via Overdrive and you library may be similar. I wouldn’t advise paying for this.
2 Stars
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