Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 525 KB
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Pocket (February 22, 2011)
Language: English
Both editions are $7.99 on Amazon.com
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Read February 2011
E-book provided by author Through Bewitching Book Tours&mdashno remuneration was exchanged.
Read February 2011
Ick Factor: minor for some creepy violence and violence against an animal
Cliche component: None other than some minor in predictability of certain parts of outcome.
Passion: interpersonal relationships not as impassioned as the work at hand
Book Type(s): Paranormal, Thriller, Romance, Cautionary
Pace: varied
THE MORE YOU KNOW ABOUT THE FUTURE, THE MORE THERE MAY BE TO FEAR.Tara Sheridan is the best criminal-profiler around—and the most unconventional. Trained as a forensic psychologist, Tara also specializes in Tarot card reading. But she doesn’t need her divination skills to realize that the new assignment from her friend and sometime lover, Agent Harry Li, is a dangerous proposition in every way.
Former Cold War operatives, all linked to a top-secret operation tracking the disposal of nuclear weapons in Russia, are disappearing. There are no bodies, and no clues to their whereabouts. Harry suspects a conspiracy to sell arms to the highest bidder. The cards—and Tara’s increasingly ominous dreams—suggest something darker. Even as Tara sorts through her feelings for Harry and her fractured relationship with the mysterious order known as Delphi’s Daughters, a killer is growing more ruthless by the day. And a nightmare that began decades ago in Chernobyl will reach a terrifying endgame that not even Tara could have foreseen. . .Amazon.com
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| Picture in HDR technology of Sarcophagus in Chernobyl Zone Piotr Andryszczak 5/30/2010 |
My Take
A different book with a thriller appeal, some levity, a smidgen of romance, a way of solving crimes that I have never seen used in a book before, and enough twists to keep you on the edge of what ever you read on.
Tara is a Cartomancer (Tarot card reader) who was a special agent handling those strange cases noone else can figure out.
Cassie, an astrologer, is sort of her ward and probably the next Pythia or leader of the Oracles who comprise Delphi's Daughters, many oracles of diverse skill and location. Henry Li is still a Special agent in the agency and her former lover, and asks Tara to come in on this case.
Tara is physically and emotionally scarred from her last case with the agency, and I think from losing her mother. Henry is losing his humanity to his job, Cassie is a a woman who has been sheltered, almost cloistered, so she can seem a bit naive. When necessary she shows her mettel.. The current Pythia isn't warm and fuzzy and has alienated Tara. The Daughters and the agency and those poor ex-spies all get caught up in one man's revenge.
Alayna demonstrates a depth of knowledge of the Tarot. Tara's visions are particularly striking. I know less about astrology than almost anything else, so I can't comment on Cassie's work.
The villain is a strangely sorry character, a survivor of Chernobyl. He brings up the thought in my mind of have we forgotten?
All in all, an exciting book with a paranormal edge, I would recommend it to my friends.
Alayna has been kind enough to guest post with me today! (see above post)
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