Aliens in love: `Sweet Starfire' a world of fun and adventure

Credit Jayne Ann Krentz with a vivid imagination. Her futuristicSweet Starfire (Popular Library, $3.95) is grand fun. While atbottom the romance is the usualvirile-male-awakening-passions-long-dormant-in-spiritual-femaleformula, Krantz has given it an unusual setting, entertaining twists,and thrown in a potpourri of adventure, wildly inventive aliencreatures (some of them - ah - absolutely out of this world) andformidable human opponents.

Cidra Rainforest is searching for the key that will make her atrue Harmonic. She hires Teague Severance, an intergalactic"mailman" with a Wolf background, to fly her to the planetRenaissance. Despite her ethereal background, Cidra is no …