Review: Sad and Sweet
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 22, 2011
Sophie has had a tough life; her mother left her and her father at a young age and when she was in her teens her aunt and father were gunned down at their own business and the killer was never found. Thirteen years later and Sophie is going to sell the shop and get married to her fiancée whom is also a cop. A friend of the family, Patrice, had taken care of Sophie after her family was murdered and has been a good friend for Sophie for many years. One day Patrice came in for a Tarot Card Reading when mysteriously Sophie lost conscious while a ghost appeared to her in her unconsciousness when she woke up the ghost was gone and Patrice was dead.Sophie is now the number one suspect in the search for the killer, her fiancée thinks she is losing her mind and doesn't support her beliefs in anything that involves the supernatural. Sophie knows that the police have focused their investigation on her even though almost everyone at Patrices' funeral could have motive to kill her including Patrice's husband since Patrice was divorcing him; if Patrice's murder is going to get solved it is up to Sophie to find who did it. But things aren't all that easy another murder has taken place and even though she has an alibi the cops don't buy it. Sophie's life is getting complicated and stressful especially when she finds out that her aunt used to communicate with the dead and her father helped the cops with cases, Sophie finds that she has inherited these traits and can see and communicate with murder victims. Working with a professor at a local college they try to find a way to solve the murder by using Sophie's new traits.A good story but it's really slow, I also thought that the author jumps around from one plot to the next, I would've liked to have seen the plots connect more in the middle of the story then in the end. I love how the book ended though it left enough mystery there that the author could write another story if she would like and I also liked how Sophie and Roger's relationship ended, they just weren't meant to be together, Roger is a really sweet character but he just isn't right for Sophie, she needs a man who can support her business as well as her psychic abilities.This story is good for those that like; Mystery, Not a whole lot of romance, Conflict, Supernatural. But if you're like me and you like a lot of romance, tons of suspense and you not a big fan of the psychic/witchy stuff then I wouldn't recommend this book to you.