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A review by kblincoln
Cold Sight by Leslie Parrish
3.0
Lexie and Aidan are both residents of Granville, Georgia, a small town whose population of young, teenage girls is rapidly diminishing.
Both of them are recovering from being completely tarred and feathered in the media. Lexie, a reporter, forced by the Chief of Police and the owner of her paper to print a complete retraction of her articles regarding a possible serial killer, and Aidan, a psychic, lambasted in the Savannah media for being wrong about his last case, a missing young boy never found.
They are both wounded and wary, and completely attracted to eachother from the moment Lexie comes knocking on Aidan's door to help with a current case of a missing teenager girl.
Working together, the two undercover horrible secrets of prominent men in the town, as well as discover the identity of the serial killer.
Aidan and Lexie are great characters, and the way Aidan's psychic powers work were also well handled.
However, parts of the book just didn't work for me. Notably, the fact that in a small town in Georgia people were doing nothing about girls being raped and molested, one per month, for years. That's a lot of girls, and alot of looking the other way.
Also, the tendency for Aidan and Lexie to make long guesses about eachother's personalities based on expressions or gestures "He could tell she was a fighter and never would back down although she was currently letting so-and-so talk to her as if she were an idiot but she must still feel nervous because of the way the town treated her" etc etc made me feel distant from the main emotional relationships in the book. A whole lot of summarizing slowed down the pace of the romance (and the excitement) instead of letting us experience it ourselves.
A very straightforward good vs. bad story, it's the first in a series about the members of Aidan's paranormal detectives team.
This Book's Food Designation Rating: Straight forward roast and potatoes on your plate, seasoned with pepper and salt concealing no surprise flavors, but filling nonetheless.
Both of them are recovering from being completely tarred and feathered in the media. Lexie, a reporter, forced by the Chief of Police and the owner of her paper to print a complete retraction of her articles regarding a possible serial killer, and Aidan, a psychic, lambasted in the Savannah media for being wrong about his last case, a missing young boy never found.
They are both wounded and wary, and completely attracted to eachother from the moment Lexie comes knocking on Aidan's door to help with a current case of a missing teenager girl.
Working together, the two undercover horrible secrets of prominent men in the town, as well as discover the identity of the serial killer.
Aidan and Lexie are great characters, and the way Aidan's psychic powers work were also well handled.
However, parts of the book just didn't work for me. Notably, the fact that in a small town in Georgia people were doing nothing about girls being raped and molested, one per month, for years. That's a lot of girls, and alot of looking the other way.
Also, the tendency for Aidan and Lexie to make long guesses about eachother's personalities based on expressions or gestures "He could tell she was a fighter and never would back down although she was currently letting so-and-so talk to her as if she were an idiot but she must still feel nervous because of the way the town treated her" etc etc made me feel distant from the main emotional relationships in the book. A whole lot of summarizing slowed down the pace of the romance (and the excitement) instead of letting us experience it ourselves.
A very straightforward good vs. bad story, it's the first in a series about the members of Aidan's paranormal detectives team.
This Book's Food Designation Rating: Straight forward roast and potatoes on your plate, seasoned with pepper and salt concealing no surprise flavors, but filling nonetheless.