Review: After Dark and After Glow, by Jayne Castle

Okay, Oddmonster's making me look like a slacker here, and theoretically this is my reviews blog, so a couple days ago I went searching through a friend's bookshelves for something quick and easy to get through. And I found it! Or them, rather.

After Dark and After Glow are Books 1 and 2, respectively of Jayne Castle's Ghost Hunters series, romances that take place on Harmony, a colonized planet whose previous inhabitants left mysteriously and in a hurry. The current inhabitants have been trapped there by events that took place before the series begins, and some of them spend a lot of time investigating the first civilization's ghost-infested ruins.

Lydia Smith is one of those para-archeologists, who, at the beginning of After Dark has awakened from a lost weekend trapped in the ruins and at the mercy of the ghosts therein. When she's finally rescued and brought topside, she finds her professional academic archeology career in tatters and, still shaken by the experience, is forced to find employment at a second-rate ruins museum, which may or may not be involved in the illegal antiquities trade. And then she meets a powerful and mysterious man...

Okay these are just fun. They're fun and sort of mindless and for me, at least, what I qualify as perfect beach reading. The romance is believable and the setting's intriguing, and best of all, there are carnivorous rabbits on Harmony. Lydia has one as a pet. It has six feet and tries to eat her new boyfriend. Loved Fuzz. Love him!

After Glow is the second book in the series, and I'd pretty much have to give away a ton about the second book to summarize it, but suffice it to say, Lydia's back, and Fuzz gets lucky.

Light, fluffy, interesting paranormal romances.