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When Abby Cooper gets a free-with-other-purchase cell phone for Valentine's Day, she starts rethinking her relationship. When she realizes she can no longer sense her energy in her boyfriend Dutch's aura, she figures the romance is over. Desperate for a change of scene, she agrees to pinch-hit as bridesmaid in an old friend's out of town wedding. In one way, it's a good choice, because her childhood crush has grown up into an attractive -- and attracted -- man, the perfect antidote for a bad break-up. In another it's a terrible choice, because Abby's spirit guides start giving her grim warnings about the groom and warn her that the missing bridesmaid is dead. Then other bridesmaids start disappearing, one by one. The Psychic Eye series, while still fun, has hit sophomore slump two books late. The opening scene is a blatant grabber; instead of setting the tone as she has in the other books, Laurie starts at the climax and backs up to tell the rest of the story. I've always found that a manipulative technique. The plot is particularly tenuous (although the puzzle is admittedly solid), and the romantic tensions seem to be thrown in for unnecessary drama -- or possibly unnecessary sex. The announcement of a new Laurie series to run concurrently with the Psychic Eye books suggests to me that she was distracted during the writing of KILLER INSIGHT. Furthermore, the now traditional moment early in the book when Abby regrettably ignores one or more strong psychic warnings increasingly grates on me. Laurie might as well write: "If my character uses her powers now, this book would be 150 pages shorter." I wish she would find a way around that; it becomes more irritating, and makes Abby seem increasingly more stupid, every book. Don't get me wrong; I enjoyed reading KILLER INSIGHT and won't regret rereading it again sometime. But it is simply not a particularly strong entry in an otherwise favorite series.
Reviewed by Linnea Dodson, September 2006
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