Review: Psychic Men by Adira August

Title: Psychic Men

Series: Hunt&Cam4Ever: Book Five

Author: Adira August

Length: 312 Pages

Category: Paranormal, Mystery/Suspense

At a Glance: Layered over, around and in this mystery are the two men who make this series what it is—a damn good story. I cannot wait for the next one!

Reviewed By: Carrie

Blurb: Knowing what’s coming doesn’t mean you can stop it.

Hunt and Cam have settled into a satisfying routine of solving murders and hanging at the club, when they aren’t expressing their affection for one another. Vigorously. Then a skinny kid, who barely came up to Cam’s chin, sought them out.

“I saw my father last night,” Asher Gamble told Hunter. “He said Jason Furney’s going to die and people will say I did it.”

Hunt frowned. The boy’s name seemed familiar. “Tell me the rest of it.”

Asher locked his gaze on Hunt’s as intractably as Cam ever had.

“My father killed my mother and my brother when I was two years old. He died in prison four years ago.”

Review: It’s complicated. Now, complicated doesn’t mean bad, because I totally enjoyed this installment in the series. But, it does mean pay attention. This mystery is written, especially in the first half of the book, with small vignettes, snippets of time told to us from the past, present, and future, which take time to make sense. Layered over, around and in this mystery are the two men who make this series what it is—a damn good story.

“Bodies die, dude, not people.” ~ Asher

Psychics, premonitions, talking with the dearly departed or able to foretell the future… Do you believe? Ever had a “feeling” you shouldn’t do something, or experienced something no one has a plausible explanation for? This mystery explores the fine line between the here and the afterlife. How much do you believe? How much is faith, and how much is purely science? What if you could prove that knowing the future or speaking with the dearly departed is all just science—to the point that it can be repeated, called upon at will or explained by a simple graph?

The team that Hunter has pulled together, all very interesting secondary characters in their own right, sets about trying to discover what is fact over what is fiction. Government secret projects, a dead man, and people who are not what they seem are all jumbled together with an interesting young boy who has an uncanny ability to just know things. Now Hunter, with his lineage, has somewhat of the same ability; his instincts are rarely wrong and are the one thing he knows he should never discount, but facts are what Hunter deals in. The careful examination of facts, the uncovering of the truth, piece by piece, is Hunt’s job, and he’s good at it. Likewise, Cam is a hunter of knowledge. The more he can research, hack, or investigate online, the happier he is. But Cam also realizes that the team is being manipulated and by one of his neighbors, no less. Discovering just where fact meets fiction meets psychic ability is what this story is all about. I don’t want to say more about the mystery, because it is just that and to tell you more would spoil it. But, suffice to say, it made me think and the solution to the puzzle wasn’t what I thought it was going to be.

And then we have Hunter and Cam, the submissive and his Dominant, and the forever relationship they are trying to forge. Cam knows Hunter, knows intimate things about his body, knows how he will react to every command he gives him. What he doesn’t know is how Hunter feels. The relationship is evolving, it’s growing, and it is shocking the hell out of Hunter. Frankly, to really understand where the two are coming from in this book you, have to have read the ones before it. That the dissociative person in the relationship would get jealous? Cam never saw that one coming. Our guys need to learn to communicate better. It is easy to see how Cam makes the assumptions he does, because they are based on Hunter’s past actions, but he’s failing to see how Hunter is evolving into someone who needs him to breathe. Hunter is finally starting to embrace not just his feelings for Cam but also that he can have them at all. No, there isn’t a whole lot of sex in this book, and what’s there, well, it was a bit excessive in force. Not sure it had to play out to quite to that extreme. Hunter did need the wake-up call, but maybe it could have been done a different way. The revelations Hunter has, the depths he is falling into in regards to his love for Cam, are startling. The epiphany that he wants and needs Cam to be his dominant 24/7 is huge and could only be accomplished by Hunter finally “seeing” Cam, truly, for the man he is, not the one Hunter thinks he is. Conversely, Cam realizes things within himself that he needs to work on—his arrogance and where it has gotten him. He’s learning to see the way Hunter loves him, it’s giving him hope, and that is something Cam desperately needs. His vulnerability shines through in this story and becomes his truth.

Overall, this book wasn’t about the sex. A book doesn’t have to be about the sex. August is setting us up for the long haul here, and Hunter and Cam’s relationship needed the revelations that happen in this story; it was another building block to their HEA. They each have a deepening understanding of each other in this book, and I am hooked. Every time I think I know these guys, Adira August proves they have one more layer yet undiscovered.

I highly recommend this book. Yes, you can read it as a standalone, but you won’t get the nuances of this complicated relationship unless you read them all. The mystery was well thought out, if a little complicated, but kept me interested from the beginning. I cannot wait for the next one!

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