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Summary: THE ULTIMATE ROAD RAGE
Review: ...what is with the person showing up for dinner? If I remember correctly, Logan said he wasn't going to show, but there is a scene where he is sitting on the beach and decides to change his mind? If that's not the one, did I miss something? Oh, well, anyway McGregor continues in her Koontz mode with this interesting tale of road rage gone to the extreme. Frank Benedict is one of those high powered lawyers who cannot tolerate failure, and it seems that is the case when he feels he's going to lose a client, he's drunk, mad and decides to take it out on the innocent Charlie Calloway and her husband. Charlie's also pregnant, but loses the baby. Her quest for revenge leads her into an uneasy alliance with Logan, a man who after dying for eleven minutes, developed a psychic ability to touch something and "read it." Charlie, too, died briefly and she has a similar type of psychic ability. Among the other supporting characters is an Alzheimer patient who witnessed the crash; Frank's wife, Anita, who becomes a strong focal point in the novel's last scenes; and other various FBI agents and such. McGregor keeps her pace pretty well, and although she does write in cliches, her prose seems natural and therefore extremely readable. McGregor will never achieve Koontz's fame, but in writing in similar venues, she will probably keep a loyal following.
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Summary: THE ULTIMATE ROAD RAGE
Review: ...what is with the person showing up for dinner? If I remember correctly, Logan said he wasn't going to show, but there is a scene where he is sitting on the beach and decides to change his mind? If that's not the one, did I miss something? Oh, well, anyway McGregor continues in her Koontz mode with this interesting tale of road rage gone to the extreme. Frank Benedict is one of those high powered lawyers who cannot tolerate failure, and it seems that is the case when he feels he's going to lose a client, he's drunk, mad and decides to take it out on the innocent Charlie Calloway and her husband. Charlie's also pregnant, but loses the baby. Her quest for revenge leads her into an uneasy alliance with Logan, a man who after dying for eleven minutes, developed a psychic ability to touch something and "read it." Charlie, too, died briefly and she has a similar type of psychic ability. Among the other supporting characters is an Alzheimer patient who witnessed the crash; Frank's wife, Anita, who becomes a strong focal point in the novel's last scenes; and other various FBI agents and such. McGregor keeps her pace pretty well, and although she does write in cliches, her prose seems natural and therefore extremely readable. McGregor will never achieve Koontz's fame, but in writing in similar venues, she will probably keep a loyal following.
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Summary: Frightening road rage police procedural
Review: The client, Jerome MacClean delays his decision on whether to hire Miami attorney Frank Benedict and his law firm. An impotent Frank leaves for home filled with anger. On the way home, he drinks from a flask until he explodes into a mega case of road rage. He purposely sends his BMW crashing twice into the vehicle in front of him. A pregnant woman falls out of the car as a suddenly panicked Frank speeds around and away from the accident scene. As her husband lies dead, the pregnant passenger in the other vehicle, FBI agent Charlotte "Charlie" Calloway, suffers a miscarriage. Desperate to find the SOB who destroyed her family, Charlie turns to help from Leo Wells, who asks Doug Logan for help. After nearly dying, Doug has psychic abilities that he uses to assist Charlie in finding the hit and run murderer. As they get closer to the culprit, Frank becomes even more unhinged and dangerous to everyone, including his spouse, who gets in his path. THE SEVENTH SENSE is a tight thriller that will frighten readers because road rage is becoming a common occurrence. From the very start, the story line never loosens its grip on the audience as Frank's decent into hell begins immediately. The characters all feel genuine, especially the negative feelings of Frank and Charlie. T.J. MacGregor provides readers with a chilling must read. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: This book is...
Review: Good: A wonderful plot. The character development was fair to good. The killer's psychotic thought processes are portrayed quite vividly. Bad: DETAILS! The lack of details ruined the book! After reading books such as L. Sanders's Deadly Sin series, I had force myself through sections of this book! Just to point a few things out... Ford Explorers DO NOT have sliding doors. Digital clock registers RESET to either 00:00 or 12:00 upon interruption of power to them. There would be NO WAY of determining the time of an accident from the clock "stopping" in the Ford Explorer! Electrical tape would NEVER seal portholes of a sloop...especially in a humid tropical climate (Duct tape...maybe..) These details, with the addition to various others, make for a disappointing read in which I found myself skipping lines just to stay interested. Sorry T.J.M., nice try...but next time you decide to write a book...check the details (or find a more knowledegable editor).
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Summary: T.J. MacGregor's Best Book To Date!
Review: I am a huge fan of T.J. MacGregor's work, and I believe that The Seventh Sense is her best book to date. I became so engrossed in this fast paced thriller that I lost most of a night's sleep in my haste to find out what happened next. A great read. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Psyhic fiction
Review: I began reading T.J. Macgregor when she was writing South Florida murder mysteries and have been intrigued as she ventured onto "the other side" of psychic fiction. Her characters are so real I find myself considering them as people I know and being an animal lover I am delighted with the personalities of the animals as well. Nobody matches her for reading peoples thoughts and writing them down..Obviously the Kirkus reviewer is completely right or no brained.....
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Summary: Worthwhile.
Review: I found this novel stilted in places, and some of the
situations far-fetched. But it hangs together well.
And psychic thrillers (a genre I love) are hard to
come by. So this is definitely worth reading.
Rating:
Summary: Worthwhile.
Review: I found this novel stilted in places, and some of the
situations far-fetched. But it hangs together well.
And psychic thrillers (a genre I love) are hard to
come by. So this is definitely worth reading.
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Summary: Better than "Hanged Man," but still not quite 4 stars...
Review: I love a good psychic fiction thriller. This had all the elements of one: a hit and run accident fueled by rage, a retired FBI agent who has psychometric abilities, and the woman who survived the hit and run - also an FBI agent - out to find out who killed her husband, and her unborn son.
The plot itself was well done - on that alone, I would have given 4 stars - but there were a few mistakes in the technical aspects that had me blinking. As another reviewer wrote, people say they're not able to make it for dinner - and are then present at dinner. There are other mistakes such as those that get frustrating over time, and I wonder who edited this novel.
That said, this was much better than "The Hanged Man," which was my first TJ MacGregor book, and I will look for other novels from this author - I'll just be really careful to read the first chapter or so before buying.
"Seventh Sense," was a book super-saturated with characters - a few times I got a little lost ("Who is this guy?"), but otherwise, the mystery of it was well done. The psychics come off very plausible, and the supporting character of the wife of the man who committed the hit-and-run stole the show. If you like psychic fiction, and can handle factual mistakes in the plot, you'll like this one.
'Nathan
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Summary: Better than "Hanged Man," but still not quite 4 stars...
Review: I love a good psychic fiction thriller. This had all the elements of one: a hit and run accident fueled by rage, a retired FBI agent who has psychometric abilities, and the woman who survived the hit and run - also an FBI agent - out to find out who killed her husband, and her unborn son.
The plot itself was well done - on that alone, I would have given 4 stars - but there were a few mistakes in the technical aspects that had me blinking. As another reviewer wrote, people say they're not able to make it for dinner - and are then present at dinner. There are other mistakes such as those that get frustrating over time, and I wonder who edited this novel.
That said, this was much better than "The Hanged Man," which was my first TJ MacGregor book, and I will look for other novels from this author - I'll just be really careful to read the first chapter or so before buying.
"Seventh Sense," was a book super-saturated with characters - a few times I got a little lost ("Who is this guy?"), but otherwise, the mystery of it was well done. The psychics come off very plausible, and the supporting character of the wife of the man who committed the hit-and-run stole the show. If you like psychic fiction, and can handle factual mistakes in the plot, you'll like this one.
'Nathan
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