![]() ![]() As soon as you will be done, your brain will act like waves on sand and erase it all. Plus, on occasion, a voice that could shine but chooses to glow instead. ![]() All in all, the book has all the commercial ingredients: a superficial mystery and a predictable love story. 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. I would have hoped then for a more interesting character. 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 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. About the friend of narrator Abby moving out to California, Abby's dog Eggy, Abby and Eggy having breakfast together, Abby's moody clients. In Victoria Laurie’s latest Psychic Eye Mystery, Abby Cooper learns that following the money often leads to murder. ![]() ![]() For the first one hundred pages, it's just useless talk, talk, talk. Flynn was the chief writer of Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog series, starting the role in 2006 and seeing it through right up until the comic was. While I didn't expect an intense, à la Simenon mystery, I didn't contemplate reading something so chatty, either. ![]()
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