Levitating Las Vegas

Levitating Las Vegas

Jennifer Echols

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Nothing up her sleeves...or so she’s been led to believe. Showgirl Holly Starr is sick and tired of assisting her dad, a celebrity magician, in his Las Vegas casino magic show. As soon as he keeps his promise to her and shares the secrets to his tricks, she can break out on her own. But can she really make it? For years Holly has taken medication to stave off crazy hallucinations that she can levitate objects. Just when she thinks she’s ready to make a career and a life for herself, her medicine—and her luck—run out. Elijah Brown suffers from a similar delusion—that he can read minds—and he’s out of medicine too. Determined to save himself and his old flame Holly, he kidnaps her and takes her straight to the source, a town high in the Rockies where their medicine is made. What they discover there leads them to suspect their powers are not imaginary after all...and neither is the intense attraction they feel for each other. They make a pact to stick together as they return to Vegas to confront the people who kept them in the dark so long. But soon they’re pitting their powers against each other in a dangerous world where the nightlife is seductive, domination is addictive, the sex is beyond belief...and falling in love is murder.

Publication Year: 2013


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  • Capnrandm
    May 02, 2025
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    THe POV problems in Echols new offerings continue in LEVITATING LAS VEGAS, again making it hard for me to get caught up in the book. Jumping from high school to college, switching between POVs to the point where I missed the heroine's voice... I stopped reading soon after the time line jumped to college and I need to go back... but it feels more like a chore than a pleasure at this point.

    Ok, 12%. Holly reflecting on a young woman who committed suicide by jumping off a bridge:

    ... how empty and awful that twenty-year-old girl must have felt to take her own life. But how cool, actually, to do it in such a dramatic way.

    This is the moment when I gave up trying to enjoy this story and threw in the towel. Holly was the only POV I looked forward to, and her "grown up self" is just too self-deluded and weird and out of touch for me to enjoy anymore.

    (11/3/16): Tried again because it pains me to leave an Echols book unfinished, made it to 26% this time. Despite the apparent life or death consequences, I really can't stomach Elijah's and Holly's parents being such deceitful, controlling, weirdos.

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