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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780061147111
ISBN number: 0061147117
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: June 01, 2007
Publishing house: Avon
Release Date: May 29, 2007
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Small-town librarian Ophelia Jensen is finally starting to embrace her lot as one of the 'chosen'—a psychic and folk magick practitioner, a.k.a. a witch. Expert loving guidance from her magickally adept grandmother Abby helps—and adopting Tink, an exceptionally talented teenage medium, has given Ophelia's life new purpose . . . until a brutal murder clouds the sunshine of their days.
Ophelia's co-worker and best friend, Darci, is distraught when her cousin is implicated in the small Iowa town of Summerset's most recent murder—the violent death of a biker. Unfortunately for Darci's cousin, it's her fingerprints all over the murder weapon. She claims she's innocent, but it'll take Ophelia and Abby more than a good incantation or two to get to the bottom of this crime—what with ghosts, crooked cops, secret identities, and a small army of outlaw bikers thrown into this devil's brew.
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I tend to really like this type of fiction. They are usually easy, entertaining reads. I got this out of the library with another one of Damsgaard's books (which I will be returning without reading).
This was very predictable drivel. Ophelia could have been a great character. Seriously, going to the parent of the bully and actually expecting it to do good? Who actually does that?
I'm not a fan of motorcycles, I think they are death traps but how stereotypical to assume a motorcycle gang is into murder, rape, etc.
This feels like a hundred other stories put into one with no original ideas.
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I started this series with the very first book and actually liked it. The stories center around Ophelia, an introvert who can see the future, who has a knack for getting into trouble and finding dead bodies. The stories start out charming, but slowly book to book you find Ophelia becoming a broken record. She doesn't allow people in, she's hard to get along with, she doesn't want her gift, blah blah blah. Once she does embrace her gift, she still can't see what is happening right in front of her face. If you can see the future, shouldn't you be a little more intelligent about what's happening around you?!? If I can figure out the plot and "who done it" within the very first few chapters, and it takes the psycic till the last chapter, something is wrong there. I can't bring myself to read anymore of the series, which is sad because it had a lot of promise.
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I absolutley love these books!! I had not read a book in 5 years and read the entire series in two weeks!
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this one was not as well rounded as the others. Too much griping about old boyfriends and such ....
the good guys/bad guys are predicatable and i wish ophelia would just give it up and get comfortable with her gift.
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Ophelia Jenson, smalltown librarian, is doing her best to settle into her new life as a surrogate mom to Tink (Tatiana) the 11 year old girl she and her grandmother rescued.
Unfortunately, just a mile from her home, The Vipers Nest has opened. The bar caters to motorcycle riders--and not the rich urban biker types. Everywhere she looks, she's seeing leather clad bikers and she, like the local newspaper editor, suspects trouble.
Trouble comes in the form of Becca, cousin to Ophelia's employee and friend, Darci and a failed California actress wannabe. On her very first night in town, Becca takes up with Adder, one of the cyclists and ends up drugged and sleeping with his corpse. Everyone believes Becca committed the murder but Ophelia and Darci. The situation gets dangerous, because there are people with a vested interest in keeping things quiet.
Overall, the Ophelia and Abby series are great tea cosies. The characters are interesting and engaging and have become very real throughout the books. The small town seems like a lot of the little places you could go through, too. This particular novel is the fastest paced of the series so far. Some of the fans who like cosies may object to kicking up the danger a bit, but I found the book to be enjoyable and a good can't-put-down read.
One serious character gaffe in this novel is Ophelia musing after a breakin destroys photos that the printed pic which was destroyed had been on the memory stick of her digital camera and now was lost to her. Hello! That photo had to be processed through a PC, where she should have kept a backup. I'm a librarian and most others I know are quite careful to make sure they have backups of important documents, photos, etc.
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