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From Publishers Weekly
The first installment of Hooper's "Evil" series capitalizes on the popularity of her gothic "Shadows" thrillers (Out of the Shadows; Stealing Shadows) but will disappoint readers who are longing for more than a simple retelling of a familiar plot. When two seers, an empath and a ghost join forces to rid Seattle of a monster, two predictable things occur: the characters spend more time trying to convince skeptics of their powers than solving the case, and the heroine, Maggie Barnes, becomes one of the fiend's next targets. Maggie is a talented police sketch artist and a troubled empath. Although her ability to experience another's pain enables her to sketch an uncanny likeness of a perpetrator's face, she's unable to draw the face of a rapist who removes his victims' eyes, wears a mask and covers his natural odor with Ivory soap. Frustrated by the police's lack of progress, John Garrett, the wealthy and well-connected brother of one of the victims, recruits two FBI agents who possess special psychic abilities. The lack of communication between the police, John's team and Maggie is frustrating, and for all the novel's buildup, the final unmasking of evil is anticlimactic. A romantic interlude between Maggie and John lends the story a degree of warmth, but not enough to lift this paranormal thriller above the tepid. (Aug. 28) Forecast: National radio and print advertising will buoy the sales of this lackluster title, but it won't match the success of Hooper's acclaimed Shadows series.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Sometimes evil lingers so close, you can feel it....
Seattle police sketch artist Maggie Barnes has an extraordinary gift. She listens as traumatized crime victims describe their ordeals — and then uses those horrifying recollections to draw dead-on sketches of the assailants.
Some cops think Maggie is telepathic, that she can actually enter the victims’ minds. Only Maggie knows the truth behind her rare talent ... and she isn’t telling.
But her secret may be exposed when a madman seizes Seattle in his terrifying grip. He abducts women and blinds them, leaving them barely alive.
The police have one hope: the lone victim who might recover her sight. But they don’t know that Maggie has her own dark connection to the monster — an eerie link that may stretch back to a string of unsolved murders.
To stop the escalating terror, Maggie will have to push her abilities to the breaking point — even if it means confronting a predator whose powers seem to have no bounds....
Seattle police sketch artist Maggie Barnes has an extraordinary gift. She listens as traumatized crime victims describe their ordeals — and then uses those horrifying recollections to draw dead-on sketches of the assailants.
Some cops think Maggie is telepathic, that she can actually enter the victims’ minds. Only Maggie knows the truth behind her rare talent ... and she isn’t telling.
But her secret may be exposed when a madman seizes Seattle in his terrifying grip. He abducts women and blinds them, leaving them barely alive.
The police have one hope: the lone victim who might recover her sight. But they don’t know that Maggie has her own dark connection to the monster — an eerie link that may stretch back to a string of unsolved murders.
To stop the escalating terror, Maggie will have to push her abilities to the breaking point — even if it means confronting a predator whose powers seem to have no bounds....
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A lack-luster story with an anticlimactic ending!,
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This review is from: Touching Evil (Mass Market Paperback)
Maggie Barnes is an empath. She has the ability to mentally connect with victims of violence, so closely in fact that she is able to feel their pain and relive their anguish through the experience of the violence. She's also an exceptionally skilled artist and, for much of her life, she has combined the empathic and artistic abilities to create uncannily accurate, life-like sketches of the perpetrators of these violent crimes that police would otherwise have been unable to track down.In Touching Evil, even Maggie Barnes finds this amazing ability blocked because she and the police are trying to track down a monster serial rapist who not only takes exceptionally skillful pains to disguise himself as he attacks the women of Seattle but he also cuts out the victims' eyes so they are unable to see him at all. If the victims have no mental picture of their attacker then, no matter the strength of her psychic abilities, Maggie Barnes has no details to draw out of their minds. As she did in her other series, ("Shadows" and "Fear" for example), Kay Hooper takes great pains in "Touching Evil" to discuss the mechanisms, the possibility and probability, and, indeed, the philosophical implications of a wide variety of psychic or paranormal phenomena. These discussions were interesting and thought-provoking but, quite frankly, failed to lift a lack-lustre story line and an anti-climactic ending into anything that could be categorized as compelling or thrilling. Fans will read the story and will probably enjoy it but it's unlikely that first time readers of Kay Hooper's paranormal novels would be convinced to pick up another if this was their starting point. Paul Weiss
4.0 out of 5 stars
Psychic thriller .... too many psychics render unbelievable,
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This review is from: Touching Evil (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the story of Maggie, a psychic empath who listens to crime victims horrible experiences and creates an exact sketch of the criminal. She's very successful up until she begins to help the police with their hunt for a serial rapist who wears a plastic mask and blinds his victims by gouging their eyes out. John, a wealthy business mogul, joins the cast of characters in this story after his sister is victimized by the killer. After healing from the attack she commits suicide - at least that's what the police think - Maggie and John know better. Enter the plot points that spoiled the story: Maggie's brother is also psychic and talks to someone who isn't named during the course of the story at all. Then John brings in two friends from an FBI special unit to help with the investigation. They are also psychic. So there I was reading a thoroughly engrossing story when suddenly the story contained FOUR psychics. That was a bit much. I almost abandoned the book at that point, but didn't. The other spoiler was that all the characters said "Yeah" when they agreed with something - wasn't there an editor involved in this book? Fortunately the story was entertaining enough to finish, but it's not a keeper.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Kept me on the edge of my seat!,
By sharron macleod (St. Cloud, Fl United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Touching Evil (Mass Market Paperback)
This book was wonderful, had a wonderful plot and once I started reading I did not want to put it down, I'm looking forward to reading more of her books.
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