Man With A Past

By Jayne Ann Krentz

Book Overview

Man With A Past by Jayne Ann Krentz released on Nov 24, 2000 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551666243
• ISBN13: 9781551666242
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Mira Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.4" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

A DATED STORY -- BUT UNDERSTANDABLE PLOT...

Originally published in 1985, the plot of this book is somewhat dated to the romance books that we are used to for today. There are several things that somehow manage to rankle your chain while you are reading, but if you are a lover of Jayne Ann Krentz, you will clearly see how her books have evolved throughout the years and the last decades. From the backcover -- She'd fought him every step of the way. and he'd won every battle... Cole Stockton had a will of steel and a raw determination to go after what he wanted - including Kelsey Murdock. he'd invaded her life, assaulting her with his sensuality, tempting her to be reckless. She sensed something dangerous about the man - in the secrets he refused to share, the past that still haunted him, the coiled tension that denied intimacy. For Cole, the past was a closed door. For Kelsey, that meant too many question and no answers - and the best reason to walk away, before it was too late. But when a simple business trip turns into a dangerous survival game, she is plunged into a world Cole knows all too well. Now Kelsey must trust he knows it well enough to keep them both alive. To start with, the start of the book left something to be desired. Just the way that we were introduced to the characters and the heroine's 'fear' of the hero just leaves your head reeling. The intimacy scene and how it came to be about was high handed. I wouldn't call it straight rape since the heroine herself did not seem to mind what was transpiring. The hero's attitude as an alpha male that needs to be followed through is clearly outdated, but works well with the time that this book was written and the preferences of the audience for those times. It does not excuse the way that we are introduced to the male lead as it seems that he is going to rape the heroine and we have only just left the first chapter. I quickly catched onto how the author was panning this out, so I just took it page by page. Man with a Past is a book at this age and time, that will seem passable at best. If you are not a fan of Jayne Ann Krentz, a true fan that is not only attracted to her new books like Falling Awake, and Truth of Dare, but has also read other of her earlier works and noted the difference, then I will not recommend this story to you. I love this author, and I have read many of her books in her other names, but if you aren't familiar with how her style has changed, then don't bother buying this. Look it up in the local library before actually casting stones on this book, it is not her best, but it is a book that had its own place two decades ago. I give it a four stars because it kept me going. I never stopped reading. I kept wondering how the relationship that had started through such rocky circumstances could evolve into something that would justify both of the characters coming together in the end. In the end, IT DID NOT DISSAPOINT.