Book 92, 2016
Nov. 17th, 2016 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chez_jaeSince I didn't have to get up early today, I stayed up last night to finish Death at First Sight by Lena Gregory. It's the first installment in the "Bay Island Psychic" mystery series.
Cass Donovan closed her psychiatric practice in New York and returned home to Bay Island to open a mystical gift shop, where she uses her skills and intuition to provide psychic readings. Cass herself doesn't believe she's truly psychic, but when a young local woman comes for a reading, Cass sees a shadow pass over her crystal ball. The only other time she saw such a shadow, it led to a death. Cass doesn't want to alarm Ellie, so she doesn't mention it. Later, Ellie's mother confronts Cass in the local deli and rants at her for giving Ellie a reading. When Cass finds the woman dead the following morning, she becomes the prime suspect in her murder.
Cass finds herself doing a sideline investigation of the murder to clear her name, trying to help her friend Bee with his annual fashion show, track down Ellie to warn her, and deal with her attraction to the stranger in town.
The story was fast-paced, but I swear, Cass is one of the dumbest heroines I've come across in a long time. She suspected Ellie's cheating husband of murdering the mother, and when Jay calls her in a panic at 3am and asks her to meet him out by the deserted lighthouse, because he can tell her who the killer really is, SHE AGREED TO MEET WITH HIM. Mind you, this was after HE CAME TO HER SHOP AND THREATENED HER.
*head desk*
There wasn't a lot of depth to Cass' character, at least not in this first book. I liked her friend Bee, along with her married friends, Stephanie and Tank. However, it sure seemed that Stephanie spent more time with Cass and Bee than she did with her husband. I didn't like that Cass couldn't seem to focus on anything whenever Luke was around.
Favorite line: A voice as sinful as his deserved the looks to go with it.
Very average, average rating:
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Cass Donovan closed her psychiatric practice in New York and returned home to Bay Island to open a mystical gift shop, where she uses her skills and intuition to provide psychic readings. Cass herself doesn't believe she's truly psychic, but when a young local woman comes for a reading, Cass sees a shadow pass over her crystal ball. The only other time she saw such a shadow, it led to a death. Cass doesn't want to alarm Ellie, so she doesn't mention it. Later, Ellie's mother confronts Cass in the local deli and rants at her for giving Ellie a reading. When Cass finds the woman dead the following morning, she becomes the prime suspect in her murder.
Cass finds herself doing a sideline investigation of the murder to clear her name, trying to help her friend Bee with his annual fashion show, track down Ellie to warn her, and deal with her attraction to the stranger in town.
The story was fast-paced, but I swear, Cass is one of the dumbest heroines I've come across in a long time. She suspected Ellie's cheating husband of murdering the mother, and when Jay calls her in a panic at 3am and asks her to meet him out by the deserted lighthouse, because he can tell her who the killer really is, SHE AGREED TO MEET WITH HIM. Mind you, this was after HE CAME TO HER SHOP AND THREATENED HER.
*head desk*
There wasn't a lot of depth to Cass' character, at least not in this first book. I liked her friend Bee, along with her married friends, Stephanie and Tank. However, it sure seemed that Stephanie spent more time with Cass and Bee than she did with her husband. I didn't like that Cass couldn't seem to focus on anything whenever Luke was around.
Favorite line: A voice as sinful as his deserved the looks to go with it.
Very average, average rating:
***
