I enjoyed this one but maybe not quite as much as the first in the series. I think I just read them too close together plus I was afraid that the heroine would break up with her boyfriend whom she met in the first book but thank goodness she didn't. This is a light hearted story of a woman whose psychic abilities lead her into trouble when she sees a murderer but only his hands so she has to search around to discover who he actually is. Of course she is pretty inept but she solves it. It started out okay, dragged a bit in the middle then picked back up for the last third of the book.

I plan to keep up with the series when the next one comes out. ( )

I LOVE the quirky, lovable Rose Garnder, her inconvenient (and often awkward) visions and her flatulent dog Muffy. Those visions of hers get her in the worst situations, and she can't help it or control it. This time, Rose gets picked for Jury Duty. Unfortunately, while in the bathroom she has a vision of the person actually responsible for the crime claiming that he got away with murder (and realizes that the fellow under trial is definitely not guilty!)

Add new DA Mason Deveraux into the mix, and Rose definitely finds herself in trouble again.

Life is further complicated by big sister Violet, in the midst of an apparent mid-life crisis but not too busy to boss Rose around and try to convince her to break things off with Joe Simmons, her current (first and only) boyfriend.

Hold on, you're in for a fun ride! Another great mystery by Denise Grover Swank. ( )

When Rose reports for Fenton County jury duty she figures she’s lucky to get out of a morning working at the DMV. Instead, despite a disastrous encounter with the new assistant district attorney, Mason Deveraux, she’s picked as a juror on a murder case. As the trial progresses, she realizes an ominous vision she had in the men’s restroom proves the defendant is innocent. And there’s not a cotton picking thing she can do about it.

Or is there?

As if things weren’t bad enough, Rose’s older sister Violet is going through a mid-life crisis. Violet insists that Rose stop seeing her sexy new boyfriend, Arkansas state detective Joe Simmons and date other men. Rose is done letting people boss her around, but she can’t commit to Joe either. Still, Rose isn’t about to let the best thing in her life slip away.

Please note that I gave this book 2.5 stars and rounded it up to 3 stars on Goodreads.

I chose wrong. That's all I got. I initially bought the first and second book via a Nook sale and since the reviews were all pretty much five stars I thought this would be an interesting series for me to start to read.

Taking place a mere few weeks after the events of book #1, we have Rose setting into a new relationship with her boyfriend Joe and trying to deal with attending jury duty. Since Rose's new boss and old nemesis is out to get here, she really doesn't want to take time off of her job (though she's inherited more than a million dollars, so her protests are kind of lacking any punch here).

Rose has a vision while using the bathroom and she realizes that a man is being set up for a murder he didn't commit. When she goes to jury duty and is ultimately selected, she realizes that the man she had the vision about who didn't commit the murder, is the defendant.

So the whole book is just Rose figuring out what she can do since she doesn't know the identity of the real murderer, but knows that the man on trial could not have done it. She goes to her boyfriend Joe who is all trust the justice system, and yeah I pretty much agreed with Rose here and rolled my eyes at him.

There are two secondary plots going on which is Rose's sister Violet is acting like a shrew and bossing Rose around. And oh is saying terrible things about Joe and Rose because she doesn't trust Joe. Why Rose put up with this after the mess that was their mother is beyond me. The secondary plot is Rose meeting and loathing the new assistant District Attorney. My Spidey sense can feel a love triangle coming a mile away, and I am just glad I have not and will not read anymore books in this series.

New characters are straight up one dimensional. Rose finally gets her first real friend who made me exhausted, and I was just reading about her. The new assistant District Attorney Mason seems to have anger issues, and I don't really have the urge to read about some guy who acts like a jackass towards people but somehow has a heart of gold.

Older characters also felt wrong in this book. Violet I already mentioned in this book, but now all of a sudden, her marriage is in trouble, and she's kind of sort of an alcoholic? It didn't make any sense.

Joe was a non-entity pretty much in this one. And the character and his obsession with getting Rose to move to follow him (though they have been dating I think three weeks at this point) was odd and off-putting.

There is not much substance in this book. We just have Rose "investigating" poorly and getting caught and in trouble every five seconds it seems. It wasn't cute and I was pretty much yawning my way through til the end.

The writing definitely needs tightened up. There was one case where we had Rose speaking, but then the character speaking switched to someone else by the end of the sentence. Reading Rose's constant exclamations of "crappy doodles" was also not fun the second time through. And Rose as I said in the first book is pretty much a text book TSTL character.

The ending sets up things I guess for the next book. I don't know how that's going to work out, and I don't care. This wasn't a bad book, just not that great, and I cannot see me re-reading this ever again. ( )

A bit like a TV series

These books read a bit like a TV series with a mystery in each book, and the relationships the underlying story that makes you go back for the next one. Very frustrating though waiting for the relationship to move along. ( )