Title: Absolutely, Positively
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Spice Level: 3/5
Published: January 1, 1996
Format: Paperback
Pages: 340
Age Rating: 18+
Tropes: Contemporary (Dated), Grumpy Broody Hero, Smart and Strong Heroine, Suspense, Mystery, Paranormal elements
Absolutely, Positively Book Review
Absolutely, Positively is a romantic suspense (with a paranormal element added to it) following two most unlikely people with completely opposite personalities. A little different from Jayne’s usual plot, this story focuses more on the romance and the character development of our hero and his reconciling both sides of his dueling family.
Molly and Harry are an unexpected pair. Where Harry is a straight-laced, unemotional grump, helpful to the detriment of his mental health, Molly is a no-nonsense strong female and has strong empathy.
Molly runs her family’s foundation to help scientists or inventors get the money to finance their projects. She has hired Harry to help her figure out the right projects. However, Harry has not successfully found the right project, and Molly is at her wit’s end.
The day Molly decides to fire him is also the day when Harry plans to tell her about them acting on their attraction.
Harry and Molly have a sweet romance. Molly’s always accepted his quirks and loves him for who he is. Harry is completely obsessed with Molly and needs her in his life. She is the glue holding him together when everything in his mind and life is tearing him apart emotionally.
There’s also some paranormal stuff happening between our characters – a psychic connection, you could say.
The story follows them as they navigate their love life (what with opposite personalities) the family drama running Harry’s life, and a stalker determined to kill or strike a fear in Molly’s mind. The suspense was kind of predictable but still enjoyable.
Overall, Absolutely, Positively is a fun read, and I definitely recommend this book.
Check out my review of Hidden Talents by Jayne Ann Krentz
Jayne Ann Krentz Absolutely, Positively Blurb:
Unconventional Molly Abberwick, trustee of her late father’s scientific foundation and owner of Seattle’s Abberwick Tea & Spice Company, was mad enough to fire her new consultant, Dr. Harry Stratton Trevelyan. She’d hired him when the foundation had needed the advice of the best expert in America on new inventions. Brilliant, tall, and unexpectedly handsome Harry was the best–at getting under her skin. She had bubbled over about a device for lunar power. He shot it down. She went wild for a bright-eyed young inventor. Harry called him a con. They were getting nowhere fast when he suddenly invited her to his condominium for tea. There she was thinking of giving him his pink slip. There he was serving her Darjeeling, a sexy smile, a smoldering gaze, and an outrageous proposal–that they have an affair!
Harry had been burned before by love. He wanted no pulls on his heart, no intrusions on his time, no dizzying of his logical mind. But he couldn’t get Molly Abberwick out from under his skin. His brilliant deduction: have a simple fling, “just one of those bedroom things.” It was a fail-safe formula for a no-commitment/no-demands affair. After all, the chemistry was right. What could go wrong?
Everything, of course. Molly was ready to go to battle with Harry, not to bed with him. Worse, she believed only an absolutely, positively impossible man would think that a relationship could be planned, predicted, and run like a science project. But just when Molly was ready to let him have a piece of her mind–not her heart–she discovered that the eminent Dr. Trevelyan was not what he seemed.
Harry turned out to be fascinating. First, there was his family, the Trevelyans, a long line of carnival owners, illusionists, and daredevils who ran the Smoke & Mirrors Amusement Company. Then there were the paranormal premonitions Harry denied having–on scientific grounds–but which brought him to Molly’s side when a sinister prank exploded at her family mansion. And when the pranks escalated into violence and a mysterious the stalker threatened her life, Molly needed Harry’s sixth sense, and his extraordinary family, to help. Sh needed Harry, not for just a week, not for just an hour, but forever in love.
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About Jayne Ann Krentz:
The author of over 50 New York Times bestsellers, JAYNE ANN KRENTZ writes romantic-suspense in three different worlds: Contemporary (as Jayne Ann Krentz), historical (as Amanda Quick) and futuristic (as Jayne Castle). There are over 35 million copies of her books in print.
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