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For the rest of 2011, I’ve decided that I’ll post the schedule of events at the beginning of each upcoming week so that it is easy to see what has been planned! This week kicks off my first event as part of Novel Publicity’s Whirlwind Holiday Book Tours!

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I want to wish everyone and their families a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Today my family and I will head over to a very close family friend’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. But before that my sister I will watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade as we always do. I am very thankful for my close friends, family, family-friends, and all my wonderful readers not only on this national holiday, but every day. Clink to Continue Reading

In addition to my review on the novel Farsighted, I also have a special treat. I was fortunate enough to be granted my first author interview with Emlyn Chand. In addition to asking her a few of what I think of as fairly ‘standard’ questions, I also tried to come up with ones that are specific and unique to her and her book. I’d like to welcome and thank Ms. Emlyn Chand for stopping by Jaclyn’s Musings today. So without further ado…

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Death Perception by Victoria Laurie

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Death Perception is the sixth novel in Victoria Laurie’s Psychic Eye series. In this mystery – adventure we find Abby Cooper and her boyfriend Dutch Rivers just about to head off to Las Vegas, Nevada. They quickly get down to business upon arriving in Sin City after learning that Dutch’s cousin Chase has been kidnapped along with the man he was a bodyguard for.

I started reading Victoria Laurie’s Psychic Eye novels several years ago and it didn’t take long to  found that I enjoyed her witty heroine’s dry humor. Abby is down to earth, likable, and easy to relate to.

I gave Death Perception a rating of 4 out of 5 stars. I thought that while the beginning and end thirds of the book were well paced, I found the middle third to be quite slow and drawn out. While I am not entirely sure what my belief is as far as psychics go I do believe that there are some people who are more highly intuitive than others.

I am an avid reader and have read quite a few mysteries, so I did figure out who-done-it long before the end of the book. Though I did like reading the process Abby and Dutch go through to get to the solution.

I find the contrast between the psychic Abby Cooper’s trust of her instincts and FB I agent Dutch rivers detective work often contradictory but the pair have found a way to make use of both of their prospective talents. Unlike many other mystery novels, I find this series to be a bit lighter and less gory than many in the genre.

Death perception by Victoria Laurie is available in paperback, audio, and e-book formats.

~Jaclyn~

Review: Itamar Makes Friends by Josh Hasten and Illustrated by S. Kim Glassman

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Itamar Makes Friends by Josh Hasten is about an 8 year old Israeli boy named Itamar. Itamar lives in a yishuv (a small village) in the mountains about an hour bus ride away from the nearest city. One day when Itamar and his older sister are about to return home from a day in the city, Itamar realizes that he’s left his soccer ball in the park. After promising his sister that he’d be back before the bus, he runs off to where he and his cousins had been playing just a little while earlier. But when he reaches that part of the park he finds that several boys are playing with his soccer ball!
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