Thanks so much to everyone who took part, there was an awesome response and some really creative (and some slightly scary!) names for your secret societies.  I wish I had more books to give out but since I don’t, here are the two winners randomly drawn!

Jane Middleton who would call hers The Secret Society of the Completely Evil

Janet Broughton who is a goodie, so a Secret Society to save the World would be WRSS. (World Rescue Secret Society) Simple and to the point!

Kind of a nice balance – one good, one evil

Winners have been notified by email and if you could reply with your postal addresses I can get the books sent out to you.

Hope you enjoy them and thanks again to Piatkus who made this giveaway possible

Next giveaway will be going up in the next couple of days so check back soon

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This giveaway will close on April 30th and names will be drawn from a hat, bowl or whatever container comes to hand!

Apologies but open to UK residents only.

I enjoyed these books and you can read my reviews for Running Hot here and Fired Up here.

Good luck!

**This Giveaway is now closed, no further entries will be accepted.  Bear with me while I do the draw and will announce the winners later today!**

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Fired Up technically follows on from Running Hot but focusses on two new characters.  I do like it when authors do this, it makes their world seem so much bigger.  I thought it was a very nice touch that Grace and Luther were mentioned in passing so I got to see that they were doing well.

The story in Fired Up was just as engaging as Running Hot and I loved the new characters of Jack and Chloe.  They worked really well together and the tension between them was built right from the start as a small spark of possibility.  I also liked that both of them were competent and confident, no ‘struggling weak heroine needs rescuing by big strong man’ and more than a match for each other. It felt like there was a slightly larger cast of minor characters but they didn’t feel minor when they appeared, they were just as compelling and well rounded as the main cast.

The character who I should have mentioned before that links these two books together, is Fallon Jones.  He’s the head of the J&J detective agency that works for the Arcane Society,  and at first I thought the story was going to be leading in a different direction for him but I am glad it didn’t turn out to be so, as he’s a great character.  His little event at the end made me laugh and want to applaud, and I do hope that story will be told soon.

Coming into the series late hasn’t been much of a hindrance and other than missing references to brief mentions of history, these books can easily be read out of sequence.   I also didn’t realise that Jayne Ann Krentz has used the Arcane Society in stories from historical fiction, to modern and then to futuristic under different pen names.  She writes as Amanda Quick for the historicals, Jayne Castle as the futuristic ones and of course as Jayne Ann Krentz for these excellent modern stories.  I definitely need to catch up on those!

Rating: ★★★½☆ 

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I’d not come across Jayne Ann Krentz before and went to start reading Running Hot then realised this is actually the fifth book in the series.  It can be hard picking up the ‘lore’ or the way the author’s world works when you don’t start at the beginning, but actually I had no trouble figuring things out which was really nice.  I’ve said in reviews before that I’m a sucker for secret societies, struggling to keep the world safe and sane against their darker counterparts and since the series is called the Arcane Society, that pushed the right buttons for me to get started.  I like the world Krentz has built, the Arcane Society made up of remarkeable people with remarkeable abilities.  Everyone registered has measurable and quantifiable abilities that fall under different categories.  Strats who can spot patterns in chaos, Aura readers who can tell what a person is feeling or if they’ve experienced trauma or Aura manipulators who can tinker with someone’s emotions.  The main characters of Grace and Luther were well written and engaging.  Grace is an Aura reader with a twist and Luther uses his Aura calming talent as a bodyguard and bartender.  They make a great couple and the romance intertwined with the plot is very sweet.  I have to touch on how the bad guys were written.  In some books I’ve read of this genre, the antagonists come across as a bit incompetent or not really all that bad.  I was impressed that Krentz chose to make hers have quite a lot of impact.  The plot wasn’t overly complicated and while mostly predictable, it didn’t make it any less of a good read.  The pace was good and the story kept you turning the pages hoping that it would work out between Grace and Luther.  I enjoyed it enough to want to find the previous books in the series.

Rating: ★★★½☆ 

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