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| Original Title: | Abby Cooper: Psychic Eye |
| ISBN: | 0451213637 (ISBN13: 9780451213631) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Psychic Eye Mystery #1 |
| Characters: | Abby Cooper, Dutch Rivers |
| Setting: | Royal Oak, Michigan(United States) |
Victoria Laurie
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 295 pages Rating: 3.92 | 13018 Users | 943 Reviews
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| Title | : | Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye (Psychic Eye Mystery #1) |
| Author | : | Victoria Laurie |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 295 pages |
| Published | : | December 7th 2004 by Signet |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fantasy. Paranormal. Cozy Mystery. Romance. Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit |
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While I didn't expect an intense, à la Simenon mystery, I didn't contemplate reading something so chatty, either. For the first one hundred pages, it's just useless talk, talk, talk. About the friend of narrator Abby moving out to California, Abby's dog Eggy, Abby and Eggy having breakfast together, Abby's moody clients. I wonder: Does Victoria Laurie perhaps confuse chatty with witty? While there are entertaining moments, and a murder plot finally emerges, Laurie is neither a Janet Evanovich nor a Mary Higgins Clark. Nor should she be. But should she perhaps aspire to slightly more than whipped cream and a little cherry on top? For underneath all that there is very little substance.Does being entertained necessarily mean plunging into vacuity?
Laurie is herself a psychic. I would have hoped then for a more interesting character. Although the reader is being warned on the very first page of Chapter One -probably the best, funniest page of the whole novel, that she is boring like vanilla ice cream. All in all, the book has all the commercial ingredients: a superficial mystery and a predictable love story. Plus, on occasion, a voice that could shine but chooses to glow instead. It's fun fluff to take to the beach. As soon as you will be done, your brain will act like waves on sand and erase it all.
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Ratings: 3.92 From 13018 Users | 943 ReviewsDiscuss Out Of Books Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye (Psychic Eye Mystery #1)
I was looking for brain candy; this was the verbal equivalent of Pop Rocks. Actually, I don't know a candy awful enough to stand as an analogy to this book.Egregious quotations: "Me liiiiikes it!" "kissed the bejesus out of me.""He had that effect on people; he was someone who quite literally exuded virility [oh, dear God], and like a scent in the air it tickled the noses of everyone interested. A flutter of insecurity tickled my tummy, and I wished for not the first time [!!!] that day that IAbby Cooper frequently has an intuition of what's going to happen to people. So Abby's absolutely astonished that she doesn't get even the slightest hint of the murder that happens to one of her clients.Then as luck would have it, the sexy detective in charge of the case, Dutch Rivers, happens to be a man Abby went on a date with.When Abby tries to give Dutch info that may help the case he chalks up her "abilities" as fraudulent.Infact, the police believe she's a suspect. Realizing no one is
I'm reading this now and really enjoying it! Smart and feisty heroine, sexy boyfriend/cop and a good romance going on, mystery, action, and suspense, all done with a great sense of humor!
Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye3 StarsAbby Cooper is a psychic therapist who helps her clients find their own paths in life. Unfortunately, Abbys abilities give her no warning of the upcoming upheaval in her own life when a client is found murdered and her charming blind date turns out to be a detective who now sees her as a prime suspectAbbys humor and practical approach to being psychic make her a particularly likable heroine although there are one or two moments when her behavior is somewhat
This is a good little cozy with a psychic twist. Abby Cooper is a psychic, she is also single and has been using a dating service, with one date going well at least she thought it had, but it turns out he is a cop getting a feel for her after one of her clients is killed. At first she has no interest in working with the police but when she realizes that this girl called her and asked for a second reading and Abby blew her off. Now she is feeling guilty and wondering if she would have been more
While I didn't expect an intense, à la Simenon mystery, I didn't contemplate reading something so chatty, either. For the first one hundred pages, it's just useless talk, talk, talk. About the friend of narrator Abby moving out to California, Abby's dog Eggy, Abby and Eggy having breakfast together, Abby's moody clients. I wonder: Does Victoria Laurie perhaps confuse chatty with witty? While there are entertaining moments, and a murder plot finally emerges, Laurie is neither a Janet Evanovich
I really enjoyed this book. In fact, I think I may have found a replacement for the now horrid Stephanie Plum series. Not that Abby Cooper is anything like Stephanie Plum. But sometimes I need a light mystery with some laughs, and this fits the bill. The characters are pretty likable, but flawed. Like, Abby actually has a bad day and goes off on people for no reason. You know, like a normal person. I appreciated that. And the psychic angle adds a nice little quirk. I really liked the fact that
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