Chris K. (chris111) reviewed on 11/5/2010 + 9 more book reviews

I can see the draw of writing an autobiography as fiction: you know the character, your life isn't exciting enough for a memoir, you can't think of anything else to write about. But usually they don't work. The author is too close to the source. She doesn't want to make herself look bad, or even worse, make the supporting characters look bad because her friends know it's them thinly disguised. That is a problem in this book. The author is a psychic and wrote about her life as a psychic and then put in some dead bodies. She goes into great detail about what it feels like to be a psychic - too much detail. Since this is fiction, have the psychic part be a little more simple. Have her have one super power instead of 5. All of the supporting characters are perfect. They're all generous and smart and funny and have no annoying (or interesting) traits. The main character comes off as a bitch because everyone else is being so nice to her, but she doesn't want to call them to say there's a killer after her because then they would catch the guy and the story would be over. Instead she starts a fight over nothing and goes off in a snit so she can be in danger in the next chapter. You can do better than these books.

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