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True Vision (2010)

by Joyce Lamb(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0425235858 (ISBN13: 9780425235850)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Berkley

series

True Trilogy

review 1: 2.5 stars. Charlie (a girl) who is also a reporter stirs up some shizz and discovers she's empathetic. Oops. Empathic. I might have meant the first one. I like that the author tried to go with a new type of paranormal kind of thing. Charlie touches someone and feels their most recent or significant event in her head. But hey someone comes to town at an inconvenient time (her cousin) and gets killed. Also a friend of her cousin, who's hot and hunky, follows thereafter, and gets all up into the mystery of whodun run over the cousin. Charlie gets strangled and rescued. She gets in a car wreck and strangled and rescued. She has some other strangling incidents. I got tired of the strangling. But there is hot empathic sex! A paranormal girl hasn't really lived unti... morel she has two orgasms for the price of one. I give the author a half star for trying out something different, but I wasn't blown away. I hate to say it but I'm not really interested in reading the second two in the series, which features Charlie's sisters. Sorry Charlie. (I couldn't help myself.)
review 2: The story kept my interest, but I had trouble with sources of conflict.STORY BRIEF:Charlie (female) is a newspaper reporter. Laurette comes to town and is killed in a hit and run. Charlie witnesses the accident and touches Laurette just before she dies. This touch gives psychic powers to Charlie. Noah is a Chicago police detective. He comes to town to investigate the death of his friend Laurette. Charlie won’t tell him anything, so he follows her. Someone tries to kill Charlie, and Noah is there to save her. The major plot is who killed Laurette, who is trying to kill Charlie, and why. Other plot lines include Charlie’s investigative reporting causing problems for the newspaper, and the mother’s secrecy about her past.REVIEWER’S OPINION:I wanted more interesting sources of conflict.1. On several occasions, Charlie has psychic visions giving her evidence that would help Noah and the police, but she doesn’t tell them. Her reason is that she thinks they won’t believe her. This was not interesting for me. Some cops use psychics in real life. And as soon as Noah realized she was psychic, he was very accepting of it and believed it. I saw her refusal to tell anyone as an easy means of conflict. I’d prefer other types of conflict.2. When Charlie has too many psychic visions, she gets headaches. When she is in a dangerous situation, she gets lucky and has an opportunity to run away, but she doesn’t. She is in too much pain to move, so she doesn’t get away. This frustrated me. It felt like “oh, one more thing to cause a problem.” This will probably not bother other readers, but for some reason I didn’t like it.3. The author used my pet peeve of the couple separating due to “the big misunderstanding.” Charlie said and did some things which were not logical and did not fit her motivations. Noah saw this and erroneously assumed she didn’t want him in her life, so he left her. She then believed he didn’t love her, so she made no move to contact him. This really let me down. Not only was this conflict due to vague communication and erroneous assumptions, but also her own actions did not fit her motivations.I wish the author would have enlightened us about Charlie’s parents. What was the mother hiding? What was the father thinking about the mother physically beating Charlie? What did the father know or think about the mother’s past? A person from the mother’s past wants to contact her. What will the mother or Charlie do about this?A minor point (publisher’s fault not the author’s) the cover picture did not match the characters. Noah has a lined, rugged face with messy blond hair. Cover guy has skin as smooth as a boy and dark hair. Charlie has reddish brown hair. Cover girl appears to be blond.On the positive side: The story moved along well and kept my interest. The author has a nice writing style. I’d like to see her work on her sources of conflict. Having more conflict due to personality styles might be something to consider. Passion level was ok, not super.CAUTION MINOR SPOILER:One incident didn’t make sense to me and caused delays in solving the murder. Noah was following Charlie as she drove on a secluded rural road. A bad guy was between Charlie and Noah and rammed Charlie’s car off the road. She got out of the car, and the bad guy began attacking her. Noah ran to help and erroneously thought the guy was helping her not attacking her. The guy runs off. Noah did not get his license plate number. Noah was a cop. The fact that the guy ran back to his vehicle without conversing with Noah should have tipped him off, plus the guy was wearing a ninja mask, plus Noah should have seen the accident since he was following her. That didn’t fit.DATA:Story length: 321 pages. Swearing language: strong, including religious swear words. Sexual language: moderate. Number of sex scenes: 6. Total number of sex scene pages: 18. Setting: current day Lake Avalon, Florida. Copyright: 2010. Genre: paranormal romantic suspense. less

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