Review: Crime Seen by Victoria Laurie

Title: Crime Seen

Author:  Victoria Laurie
Publisher: NAL
Publishing Date:  September 4th, 2007

Pages: 282
Genre: Adult Paranormal Mystery

Series:  Psychic Eye #5
Source:  Audio

 

Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye, is having a hard time getting over a gunshot wound from her last case-especially because she didn't see the shots coming. Out of work and second-guessing her abilities, she tries to get back in the saddle by helping her boyfriend Dutch with some of his FBI cases. And soon enough, her intuition returns-with a vengeance.

This is the 5th book in the series. I am still going Strong with this series, even though the main character bugs me quite a bit at times… other times she cracks me up and I adore her. What I enjoy most are the mysteries and this installment took me in a bit of a different direction… the mystery is solved but not take care of. At least one of them. There seems to be a on going plot forming. YAY! I do love those.  This wasn’t my favorite of the series but it was still fun and I enjoyed the read

Abby and Dutch are sort of living together as she starts to heal from her gunshot wound. OF course things aren’t perfect, the cat and dog do not get a long, Abby is bored, and Dutch is pushing for more time with Abby. Dutch does what all good boyfriends that are FBI agents do, he brings home some cold cases and Abby begins to look through them… this causes some trouble and a wild good chase and the introduction of quite a bad guy. Abby of course heads for trouble and her and Dutch have misunderstandings and lack of communication. Nothing much has changed there.

I feel like I am saying the same things over and over about this series so I am going to shorten this one with points of likes and dislikes.

Likes

• The mystery is good as always
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• Love the pet interactions
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• Love the introduction of a new character… Candace- a private eye who helps Abby out.
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• Love the problematic romance. Just because it it cracks me up and makes me roll my eyes all in the same scene.
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• Love the fact there is an ongoing plotline now.

Dislikes..

• Abby got on my nerves a little more with her deceit and lies and hiding things from Dutch. He’s not going anywhere and yes he wants to protect her but she always knows he can’t stop her. Just be honest with the guy.
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• The fact that Abby has commitment issues. Sometimes this seems out of character… she wants a commitment.. .nope she’s too independent and needs her space… just make up your mind woman.
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• Abby just acts stupid at times and I know she is much smarter than this.

So as you can see more likes than dislikes. And the likes are strong likes… loves actually. So this series is still going strong for me. Short review but not sure what else to say that I havn’t already said. Love this series and I will keep on reading on.

Even with it's faults... Still loved it. 

Victoria Laurie is the New York Times bestselling author of 30 books and counting. Victoria divides her time between her two adult mystery series, (The Psychic Eye Mysteries, and The Ghost Hunter Mysteries), and a Y/A thriller, When (Formerly titled Death Date), to be released in early January of 2015.

As a professional psychic, Victoria's protagonists - psychic Abigail Cooper, and spiritual medium M. J. Holliday - tackle the tricky world of the paranormal while fighting bad guys and demons with plenty of plucky humor and determination.

And using that keen understanding of the paranormal, Victoria also created the character of Maddie Fynn, a teenager with the unique intuitive ability to predict the exact date of someone's death.

To showcase her writing range, Victoria has also penned a children's epic adventure series, The Oracles of Delphi Keep.

Board Game Break Time: Galaxy Trucker

Board Game Break Time is a new feature we're bringing in, where we play board games and review them. 

Title: Galaxy Trucker 
Manufacturer:  Czech Games
Designer:  Vlaada Chvátil

Year of Publication:  2007

Game Type: Dice Rolling/Tile Placement/ Real Time/ Space Exploration Theme

# of Players: 2-4 Best: 4 

Ages: 10+

Play Time: 60 Minutes 

  

Average Rating: 7.4

Average Rating: 4.6 

 

 

I had a ton of fun with this game. Game-play starts with building your spaceship. This happens in real time. So all players are just grabbing one tile at a time and deciding to keep or toss. There is a balance between making sure you get all that you need and also finishing first... as the first player to finish is the first one to play a turn. After you build your ship you fly through space to deliver items.... problem is there are lots of dangers in space that want to tear your ship up. So yup by the time you make it to your destination... you may not have a ship left.

The components in this game are really nice. All great quality, very colorful, and unique. Very nice, this entire game is very aesthetically pleasing.

This game really was a blast. We only played a two player game and it was fun...more will be so much more fun I think. I hope to get to play with a full 4 players soon.

This is easily one of my favorites in a while.

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I really enjoyed the different aspects of this game.  It starts with tiles as you slowly build your spaceship. And you have to think ahead based off what you may encounter in space. There is also dice rolling which can affect where you might get hit. The better you build your spaceship, the more likely you will end up making it with your cargo in one piece. Though, one bad meteor could wipe out part of your ship or kill one of your humans/aliens. It's a well designed game with lots of replayability due to design aspects of ship and different cards or problems you may encounter during your flight stage to get your cargo to its destination.

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