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Summary: Not Hooper's Best
Review: A serial killer is on the loose. The victims are always blond, successful women. A FBI special unit compromised of psychic profilers and agents gets involved. Special Agent Isabel Adams is the physic profiler that is showcased in this book. She also happens to be blond and on the killers list of potential victims.Kay Hooper often writes books with a touch of the paranormal. In fact there are six books in this series involving the same FBI Special Unit. They have all been pretty good if you don't mind the somewhat convenient device of "visions" being used to solve crimes. This book is the weakest of the six in the series. It relies very heavily on the psychic experience. The book gets bogged down in all the psychic detail. It got to be a little too much when main characters would touch and they literally would spark. The book was suspenseful at times and the killer did turn out to be a surprise. It's not a bad read, but Hooper has done better in the past
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Summary: anticipation
Review: As I have yet to have the privelige of reading this latest in a long list of winning works by Kay Hooper, I can only say I expect to will be as big a hit as all her others. She is a brilliant author who is able to centre on the way in which the true psychic performs, without fanfare or grandstanding. I can't wait to get it in my hot little hands to devour the latest in tension and mystic. I am sure I am not going to be disappointed.
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Summary: Subpar
Review: Being a Kay Hooper fan, I naturally ran out and bought the book the first day it came out in hardcover. Well, I won't be doing that again. Too many characters were running around in this story to even keep track of who they were, let alone to wonder what purpose they served. This book also had many pages of explanations about the wonderful world of psychics that didn't (in my opinion)serve the plot. And there were many unexplained references to past books, including a character from the first book in the "Evil" Triology, that were confusing even to me as a reader of her previous novels. And the ending extremely disappointed me, to say the least. Overall, I'd advise one to skip this novel and check out her "Shadows" Trilogy.
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Summary: Thank Goodness I Didn't Buy This Book
Review: Hooper's books continue to be marred by lapses in logic and research. From the book where the woman woke up from a months long coma with long manicured nails to the one where an inexperience forensics team estimated height and weight of a murder victim from a box of bone fragments, I've often found myself being jerked out of the story by some easily checked error. While I had hoped for rather better because this was her hardcover debut, I was doomed to disappointment again.
While I can suspend belief to accept the psychic part, its the mundane details she misses that gets me.
I see someone has already commented about Hooper's off the wall view of schizophrenia, but what about the FBI agent who had checked all the pharmacies within a hundred miles and no one was taking "schizophrenia medicine"? Because there is no specific medication for schizophrenia and the medications used in its treatment are often prescribed for other mental illness, I could only assume, all other evidence of rampant alcoholism, sado sexual murder and family violence aside, Hastings, South Carolina is the mental health capital of the United States.
Then there is the FBI agent in tight jeans with a calf holster. No matter how good their tush looks, no one who depends on a gun to save their life is going to use a calf holster exclusively. Sheesh, how do you get to it standing up?
I'm not even going to talk about her lack of knowledge about how bodies decay, especially in late spring in South Carolina locked in with rats and certainly not impervious to flies. Read Death's Acre by William M. Bass if you want to know more.
All in all, I think that Hooper needs a fact checker and an editor who is willing to call her on these lapses. She also failed to engage my interest with the characterization. If the reader was new to the series I have no idea how they would have been able to figure out who was who with the introduction of so many characters from the early series.
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Summary: Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper
Review: I am so disappointed in this book. She was going along so good in the first two and to end this series with a dud.
The first problem was that she spent way too much time "explaining how psychic powers work or don't work" I was to the point of wanting to skip pages to get back to the "story".
The second problem Hollis Templeton (from the first book) should have either been used more or not at all. Her part in this book was under done. She did not really use her "gift/curse" to any satisfying outcome. Wasn't our herione in this book supposed to help Hollis cope when she see's dead people. Well, she was no help-might as well left the whole thing out. And making our hero psychic too! Yikes-Too Much!
The only positive thing was: I completely was way off base with who the killer was. Totally took me by surpise. It's ashame that the read to get there was so disappointing. I look forward to Kay Hoopers next series and only hope she doens't bog herself down with "explaining" the abilites too much. Leave the mystery in their abilities too!
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Summary: Had promise - but died
Review: I couldn't sleep the other night and picked up Sense of Evil. In the past I have liked all of Kay Hooper's books so I figured it was something that would keep me absorbed. I have to admit that I had to force myself to put it down in order to get some sleep, but on picking it up the next day - it seemed to lose something as the story progressed. In finding out "who did it" I was totally disappointed and felt totally cheated. Upon finishing and closing the book I felt like I had wasted my time reading it. This is not one I would recommend. I don't know why the publishers felt this one was worth publishing in hardback.
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Summary: Good book but suggest you wait for paperback
Review: I delayed buying this book for a long time due to the reviews on this site. Recently, I read the excerpt and decided to purchase it. I have to agree that the character development was poor, that the story got bogged down in all the psychic detail. However, I'd say the tale was fairly decent. I definitely cared enough about the story to want to finish and find out who the killer was. I'd definitely say wait for the paperback edition or even take it out of the library, though.
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Summary: DISAPPOINTED
Review: I have been a fan of Kay Hooper for many many years and have always enjoyed her work. However, this book was a complete disappointment. I found the characters in this story to be totally devoid of emotion, even when they were sharing their personal horror stories. I also found that most of the dialog was repetitive and easily skipped. I hope readers new to Ms. Hooper's work will not base their opinon on this one book, but will try many of her other works.
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Summary: An unexpected disappointment
Review: I have been a Kay Hooper fan for over fifteen years and I really looked forward to this book. Unfortunately it was not up to her usual standards. The plotline, characterizations, and romance were all sidelined by repeated explanations of the whys and hows of psychic policework. The relationship between the couple and even the suspense of hunting the murderer never seems to develop. Read any of her other books, but I'ld give this one a pass.
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Summary: thrilling! chilling! reading.
Review: I have been reading this series since kay hooper started it and all i have to say is if you haven't read it than please run directly to your nearest bookstore and start with the first one until you get to a sense of evil. it is so captivating that i just read it in one setting, and i don't mean it took me a whole day. battling evil, finding love and not wanting to accept whats right there in front of you well this is it. i can promise you you want be sorry. i think you need to read the other three books before you start a sense of evil so you can understand how they have gotten to were they are now.. enjoy.
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