Review: Good premise, but too chaotic
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2012
It was okay (2.5 stars), but could have been great. Too much was truncated into what could have been a nice length novel. Librarian meets psychic operative. Librarian discovers (surprisingly) that she has powers too, duh! Librarian is swept up in CII (blackops group of some sort). A wannabe love triangle between old-flame shapeshifter/shaman and new flame psychic/operative occurs. Oh! What will she do? Please...Too many writer's conveniences were used. Too much action w/o allowing the H/h to bond properly to have any relationship, let alone one where they supposedly fall in love.The heroine, Caitlyn, annoyed me to no end. She reminded me of a ditzy, do-for-me. For a Native American woman, basically raised by her very native grandmother, she knew surprisingly little about her heritage. Even if she HAD gone away to college and lived in the city she would have been schooled better than she was. She would have had to have been raised blindfolded and deaf, not to know what was going on. Her brother, Gabe, grew up knowledgable of his 'gifts', as did Cait's childhood sweetheard, Jamir. Neither of them, nor any of the other village people (NO, not those Village People) ever thought to train her, or even see if she had gifts too? And, don't even get me started on their names! Names are incredibly important to a character and none of them matched their backgrounds, period.Conveniences: Friends with military training & background, Native American village of supernatural shapeshifters - they were supposed to be the only one? This did nothing to explain Jacob Littlejohn's background, or Karen's - another CII operative, both of whom were psychic AND native american to boot - different tribes. Oh, & why couldn't Caitlyn and her brother shapeshift? Why are they purely psychic?The heroine's friends consisted of a group made up of:1. A woman who was ex-Coast Guard, but is now a librarian who works with Cait. The woman is a karate instrutor  & sharp-shooter. Does the Coast Guard HAVE sharp-shooters?2. A woman who has been taught by the above woman and so also kicks-butt in karate.3. A woman who is a wannabe starlet who, conveniently, worked as an Army technical writer at some point in her life.The story also contains:1. A heroine who was clueless about her powers but took only 24 hrs to learn them, hmm...2. A supposed 'twist' that I saw coming a mile away.3. A highly trained FBI agent who's easily cold-cocked by a mere librarian/coast-guard/sharp-shooter woman.4. Bad-guys, that required training wheels & massive amt's of hand holding to operate well and who all seemed to suffer from some sort of sexual deviancy. Most gov't baddies, I don't think, care much about rape, they'd much rather shoot first and then hide the body.5. A crap-load of highly expensive technology, machinery, transportation etc... Who the heck was funding all this? I know, I know... Prime Minister's, Iraqui insurgents, Japanese, & Chinese military, etc... Who got all those people to cough it up and throw it in the collective breadplate?6. A hero, Jacob, who has NO chemistry with the leading lady and up till the end has little to do with her.I'd really like to know what the other reviewer's read, because it wasn't this story.