Sweet Starfire, by Jayne Ann Krentz

I've started 2 books. The first is another by JAK, one of her futuristics: Sweet Starfire. It's a reread.

Plot summary:

Welcome to the futuristic world of Lovelady, where humans are divided into two types - Harmonics and Wolves. Harmonics live a serene life, elevating their knowledge and dwelling on a higher plane where emotions and instincts have no control or power. Wolves . . . everything a Harmonic is not.

Enter Cidra Rainforest: a Wolf reared as a Harmonic in the serene community of Clementia, desperate to find the ancient key to taking to last step to becoming a full Harmonic.

Meet Teague Severance: a true Wolf from Port Valentine, a renegade mail carrier who lives for making the package arrive on time.

What happens when these two meet? Interstellar sparks! Cidra hires on as Teague's assistant in exchange for a trip to Renaissance, the neighboring planet, to begin her quest for the Harmonic holy grail . . . a legend and most likely unreal. But life with a renegade doesn't always turn out like one plans. Cidra finds herself along with Teague in the dangerous jungle of Renaissance and must learn to survive by wits and instinct, not exactly easy for a trained Harmonic.

Posted later...

No posting this last weekend, I was too busy napping and reading. I also went to work very early Friday morning, so I was home by 2 PM. Ergo: long weekend!!

The first I finished was Sweet Starfire. It was a B+. This wasn't really a book with a villain (the only possible villain is dispatched without much trouble halfway through, but an adventure book. I usually prefer character driven books, but I do enjoy adventure books (Suzanne Brockmann's, or Laura Leone's great Fever Dreams, for instance).

As always in JAK's books, the world the book is set on is fascinating, and the characters are very well done. Teague is the perfect gamma hero, and I loved the way Cidra discovers exactly what she's capable of. I can't stop thinking, though, that I'd love to live like a Harmonic... all that serenity and peace... yeah, I'm boring. ;-)

This is also a great road romance. Cidra and Teague are together pretty much all the time, so the romance is strongly developed. There is a separation in the end, but the reader doesn't see it, so it didn't bother me much.