{"id":283,"date":"2011-06-20T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2014-08-06T11:12:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T16:12:58","slug":"clarity-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Clarity, by Kim Harrington (book review) – psychic gift or curse?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookIt’s a mystical Monday. What’s your ideal summer job<\/a>? Bet it’s not like Clare’s, where “the family business” uses the psychic gifts<\/a> of the Ferns.<\/p>\n

Her brother loves summer, when he can romance the visiting girls – what local high school girl would date a guy who gets messages from dead people<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The Ferns can tell tourists about hidden things which have happened in the past, but the new psychic in town starts taking away their customers by promising that she can predict the future<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Add a murder to the summer crowds during an election year, and suddenly Clare’s gift for psychometry<\/a> is in demand by the local authorities.<\/p>\n

Kim Harrington says that Perception<\/i> (Clarity #2) is due out in March 2012<\/a>. Hope YA paranormal fans can wait that long! (She’s also writing a middle grades detective series, due out next summer).
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Clarity \/ by Kim Harrington. Point (Scholastic), 2011. [author’s website<\/a>] [author’s blog<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] [book trailer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/b>: Just another summer at the family psychic business, where Clare sees what happened with an object by just touching it, brother Perry sees spirits, and Mom hears people\u2019s thoughts. They can\u2019t predict the future, but Cape Cod tourists wanting answers keep them in business.<\/p>\n

Too bad the town residents aren\u2019t as accepting of the Ferns \u2013 Clarity and Periwinkle (named by hippie parents) have been bullied and scorned ever since their gifts began to manifest. Just another year of high school and they can escape to somewhere else\u2026 especially after Clare\u2019s only boyfriend cheated on her.<\/p>\n

A murder \u2013 the first in decades \u2013shocks everyone on the Fourth of July weekend. The mayor is up for re-election and asks Clare to help the police find clues. So she\u2019s stuck with the mayor\u2019s son (her ex-boyfriend) and the new detective\u2019s son (completely anti-psychics) as she visits the murder scene\u2026 and finds that Perry was with the woman before she died! He assures Clare that he did not kill the woman, but they\u2019re not sure that the police will understand visions instead of evidence.<\/p>\n

On tourist row, a new psychic arrives, saying she can foretell the future and luring clients away from the Ferns. Perry disappears when a witness states that he was seen leaving a restaurant with the victim. Clare\u2019s worst bullies boast about inside knowledge, then vanish.<\/p>\n

How can Clare keep working with Justin when she still can\u2019t forgive him? How can she convince Gabe that her visions are the truth (without telling too much)? Can Clare find the real killer without becoming the next victim? (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a mystical Monday. What’s your ideal summer job? Bet it’s not like Clare’s, where “the family business” uses the psychic gifts of the Ferns. Her brother loves summer, when he can romance the visiting girls – what local high school girl would date a guy who gets messages from dead people? The Ferns can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,51,41],"tags":[22,7,4,75,11,20,5,70,37,16,18,43,39,214,49,81,15,21,73,35,3,8,28],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mystery","category-paranormal","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-massachusetts","tag-memories","tag-psychic","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4499,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/4499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}