Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye (Psychic Eye Series #1)

Great Book!!

I loved this book! I read Laurie's Ghost Hunter Novels first and wanted another series to read when I was done. I didn't know if I'd like it but went ahead and bought the first book in this series. Boy am I glad! It was very entertaining! It's packed with humor and suspense. Very good mystery! If you like paranormal/psychic mystery you'll love this series!

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Hooked on Abby Cooper!!

I picked up this book at a used book store on a whim and boy did that pay off. I instantly fell in love with the main character Abby Cooper. She is tough when she needs to be and endearing other times. Victoria Laurie, writes about Abby in such a way where you feel as though she is not just a character she is a friend. As soon as I finished the first one I ran to Barnes and Noble and picked up the rest of them. Sadly I have read them all and am now eagerly awaiting the next installment coming in June. This is excellent series and I highly recommend it for anyone who enjoys a good female detective mystery with a psychic twist.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Fantastic! Great! Super!

What a great read!! Abby Cooper is a fantastic character who gives us a great insight into the psychic mind. The characters are wonderful and the plot is suspenseful. I was introduced to Abby Cooper in Drop Dead Blondes and immediately bought this book and then Better Read Than Dead. They were all fantastic!! I couldn't wait till A Vision of Murder came out and enjoyed that just as much. I am now anxiously awaiting the next book due out in Septmeber.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Worth a thousand stars!!!

Abby Cooper is so hip and fun with her personalities and the crazy predicaments she gets herself into. Went out and bought all nine books after this. Its a MUST READ! This is beyond my favorite book ever!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Ms. Laurie, stick to your day job

This book is absolutely horrible. I picked it up because the plot seemed interesting, the characters intriguing, and it seemed like one of those funny, brain candy types of books I like to indulge in once in awhile. I was seriously disappointed. The plot is not bad, but where the **&%$@#!! was the editor? A good editor (heck, even a half-way decent one) could have edited out all the extra nonsense (and there's a lot of it) and shaped this into a relatively interesting story. But I saw no evidence that this had ever been edited by anyone, including the author. First, Ms. Laurie has a punctuation obsession. One of my biggest pet peeves is the overuse of exclamation marks,and my second biggest pet peeve is the use of the combo punctuation: !!??. God how I hate that. It signifies to me that you are NOT a professional writer and are, perhaps, about 12 years old and still dot your "i"s with little hearts. This book is full of characters who rarely say anything without it ending with a hysterical "!!!???". Plus, Abby is not all that interesting. You would think she would be, since she is a "psychic intuitive," but she isn't. I don't like her and that is the author's fault for not developing her character into a person I can relate to or find interesting. The lame on-again/off-again romance with Dutch the hot police detective (how cliche--which is why he isn't interesting either) is boring and makes me wonder if Ms. Laurie meant to write a romance novel instead of a--well, whatever this dumb novel is. I don't even like the dog and generally I like animals in a story, but the author refers to the dog more than the crime/mystery that Abby should be solving. I know when the dog eats. I know what the dog eats. I know when he is happy or agitated. The dog is mentioned too much. Plus his name (Eggy) is stupid. The psychic aspect of the novel is also not as interesting as I thought it would be. Since Ms. Laurie is a real-life psychic (at least she thinks she is), I figured this aspect of the novel would be more fleshed out, but it's not. Abby calls her spiritual guides her "crew," which makes me think of the guys in orange hats and vests who pour asphalt and block off the fast lane on the highway. Why crew? It makes them/her insights sound ridiculous and not to be taken seriously. Also, every time her "crew" tells her that someone is lying to her (or she lies to someone else), the author writes this phrase: "Liar, liar, pants on fire..." Now, the first couple of times I thought that was funny and reasonably witty/clever. After about 20 times of it, reading those words is simply IRRITATING. Couldn't she come up with something else? The pace of the novel is also bad. Abby gets the feeling that she should leave town (which is dumb anyway--way to mess up the suspense) and then there's big long section of background information about her sister, their parents, all stuff you don't care about in the middle of a supposedly suspenseful novel. This novel is BORING. There is no suspense. Because events are set up so clumsily, you know when something bad is going to happen and you pretty much know what it is. There is very little mystery to this mystery novel. I HATED almost every minute I spent reading this terrible novel. It is badly written, poorly constructed, and by the end you don't care two figs about the characters or the mystery. I won't buy another "Psychic Eye."

1 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

good book

loved it. am buying series. keeps it fun, good pace. enjoyable read

The start of another wonderful series by Victoria Laurie. Her b

The start of another wonderful series by Victoria Laurie. Her books really are fun to read; her characters are enchanting and the storylines well done.

Wonderful Book

If you like the Stephanie Plum series you'll love these as well. Very fun red.

Great Book

This series is one of my all time favorites. The whole series is lovely, and the great part is that you don't have to read them in order. Her outlook on her abilities is awesome, and she takes life as it comes. Victoria Laurie did a great job of this. Not once did I get bored during this book, or want to skip through pages.

Fun, fun, fun!

Enjoyed - reading #5

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Light & Funny!

I am a die-hard romance reader but my mom being the mystery buff gave me this book to try out. Needless to say, I was not disappointed and I can't wait to start the next book. If you mix together the average girl, some mystic abilities and a big heart then you'll get Abby Cooper. I could hardly put this book down the entire time I was reading it.

Great read!

This is a great fun and relaxing read!

The sample was good...

Now I will buy the book I think.

Funny yet enjoyable...

When I first saw this I thought it looked pretty interesting. When I read the back I just thought "Oh I've got to get this book!" I am one that loves a good mystery novel and this one surprised me quite a bit. It was a little cheesy at times, but it turned out to be a good read. This book is a good way to pass time on a rainy day... You should pick up this book and give it a try. You never know you might end up enjoying it. I know I did!

Psychic Intuitive

I have read Victoria Laurie's Ghouls series and wanted to read more from this author. So I picked up this book yesterday and finding it hard to put down. I have not read the entire book yet (only on chapter 6) but I cannot wait to finish. I have already started getting the remaining books in the series. Right now its raining and I am about to pick up this book and get lost into the world of a psyhic intuitive.

Funny and yet good mystery

I enjoyed reading this book. It is written from Abby's point of view. Her interaction with others and her internal dialogs are snappy and funny at times. That she is an intuitive is explained in a believable way. Her interactions with Dutch and Milo are well developed along the way. There were times reading it that I have to laugh out loud. If you are looking for a easy and entertaining read you will find exactly what you are looking for in this book. I would also highly recommend all the other ones in this series. They keep the same theme as this one yet you can see how Abby grows in both her profession and as a person. In total I love this whole series.

This book was a delightful surprise!

I found this book by accident, but was glad that I did. The title sums up the main character Abby, who happens to be a psychic. She gets herself in trouble without even trying. The plot is different than anything else I've read. It has some romance, but keeps you on the edge of your seat tying to figure out the mystery more than anything. This is a very good book to read if you want a little more story with your romance. I can't wait to see what happens between Abby and Dutch in the next book, as well as what kind of trouble she gets into. I will absolutely read the rest of this series.

It's a great book. But, then I like things that go bump in the night.

Good characters and a very good read.

What a Crew

This series was a joy to read, very entertaining. Abby Cooper and her crew, how she refers to those helping her from the other side, fumble through the "signs" and deeper into trouble. Throw in trying to date Dutch, a skeptical police officer, and giving him a little too much information about a case... Add the quirky characters, like Eggy the dog and Dave the lovable construction guy who doesn't know the word fast, and things really get interesting. There are enough twist in the series to keep you guessing, as well as wit and humor to make you laugh.

Abby Cooper Psychic Eye

I really enjoy this series. I picked up one of the later books and, after having read that, wanted to go back and read the whole series.

This is a good book for a rainy day, or for taking with you to read in waiting rooms and on the train. She has everything a woman would want. She is self employed with a marketable skill, her boyfriend is rich and gorgeous, she has good friends that are nearly as crazy as she is, and she has guts. All of this and she is psychic!

This series is light reading to get away from the serious stuff we all deal with in our lives, without cluttering up our brains with major plots or worries.