August 29th, 2007
Chill of Fear
Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper was the book that I finished reading this weekend. That is one thing I like about visiting Andy’s parents, I always seem to finish a book. This book sounded like it was going to be all about Special Agent Quentin Hayes, part of the Special Crimes Unit (a.k.a. the paranormal unit). It had some of his story and why he spent his vacations at a place called The Lodge for the last 10-14 years. When he was 12, a girl who he looked at as a little sister was murdered at the Lodge. He’d been looking into what killed her for years, but never finding anything. But this year, it was going to be different.Enter Diana. Diana is at the Lodge for a therapeutic art workshop. Basically since she was young, she has been told she was abnormal, hearing voices, blacking out, etc. Quentin recognizes immediately that she is a medium and it is his job to convince her that she is not crazy and is a medium to the other world. The book mostly revolves around Diana and her role in helping to figure out what happened so many years ago at the lodge.This is the most paranormal of Kay Hooper’s books that I have read. I believe in psychics; I just do not know if I really believe in mediums and maybe that is why this book seems a bit far fetched to me. I wanted to finish it to see who the killer was, but even that for me was a bit of a let down. But It was entertaining, I will give it that. And again, Kay throws in a little surprise that you never would have guessed. That I do like about her writing. Even if it is just a little thing, nothing important to the story, it just adds to the story, she will throw it in and see if the reader notices.
