Midnight Crystal (Ghost Hunters, #7; Arcane Society, #9; Dreamlight Trilogy, #3) in Vampires, Weres and Fae!

Sep 16, 2010 Melindeeloo rated it really liked it

Shelves: ghost-hunters-ghost-whisperers, paranormal-romance, futuristic-romance

Midnight Crystal, the final book in the Dreamlight trilogy which has spanned the Arcane Society's history past, present and finally future – and all three Castle/Krentz/Quick nom de plumes - finishes up on the futuristic world of Harmony where almost everyone has some degree of paranormal talent. This story was my favorite of the three in the trilogy - and better than the last Harmony/Ghosthunter book too.

Midnight Crystal brings together the descendants of former enemies Sylvester Jones and Nich Midnight Crystal, the final book in the Dreamlight trilogy which has spanned the Arcane Society's history past, present and finally future – and all three Castle/Krentz/Quick nom de plumes - finishes up on the futuristic world of Harmony where almost everyone has some degree of paranormal talent. This story was my favorite of the three in the trilogy - and better than the last Harmony/Ghosthunter book too.

Midnight Crystal brings together the descendants of former enemies Sylvester Jones and Nicholas Winters who both took different paths in order to gift paranormal talents to their progeny. The pairing between resourceful Marlowe Jones, the new head of J&J, and new Guild boss Adam Winters is a good one – they are well matched in power and intelligence and the chemistry between them is good.

The story which finishes the arc is good too it combines all the classic elements of Castle’s Ghosthunter stories with the Dreamlight ones, without feeling like a rehash of either. I appreciated that after seeing two other dreamlight-worker/Winters pairings that the finding and lighting of the Burning Lamp wasn’t belabored this third time around and that Marlowe and Adam’s combined talents had a purpose besides keeping Adam from the insanity of his morphing power. Probably the one weakness with the 'Lamp' portion of the story was that the with respect to lighting the Midnight Crystal has less significance than I espected.

Of course I have to mention the dustbunnies - classic Harmony element after all. Marlowe’s ‘partner’, Gibson, the biker-energy-bar-chomping-dustbunny, was nowhere as obnoxious as the too cutesy ‘Elvis’ dustbunny in the last book – and if you are a dustbunny fan, Gibson has friends too.

Overall, I have to say that I really enjoyed following the saga of the Burning Lamp through the three time periods and wouldn’t mind seeing a few more trilogies like this and seeing more of the families we’ve been introduced to over the course of the author’s three now-connected series.
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