Sage it Out

Rose Devlin is the kind of best friend with a good heart a person could have. Sage Tanton is her best friend, who also happens to be psychic. Rose has protected Sage, as well as her own family since childhood and nothing and no one is allowed to get in the way. Rose feels that she can handle any situation, even murder, without Sage’s supernatural intervention. But when she runs into a police detective, and a little girl, Rose’s reactions to the unexpected meetings trigger Sage’s visions.

Nathan is a new police investigator around town and the man who ran into Rose while he was chasing a thief. Not long after the incident, Sage’s vision shows that the little girl Rose saw after being knocked down by Nathan is in danger. It is up to Rose and Sage to find the girl and save her before it’s too late. Unfortunately, Rose needs to get the police involved without telling them about Sage’s abilities. Rose does what she always does, jumps in feet first, and lands in Nathan’s arms.

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Series: A Psychic Mystery Romance – Book #1
Author: Shereen Vedam
Genre: Paranormal/Romance Cozy
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Rating:

Detective Nathan Bryant is a great character is Sage it Out. He knows that Rose is lying to him, and he wonders if she isn’t a bit crazy as well. Despite his concern, Nathan finds himself completely over the moon for her and unable to stay away. He is instinctively protective of her and wants to help, but the past keeps coming back to haunt him. Trust is something he has a hard time giving, and this is an issue he and Rose share.

This is a sweet story, but it needs work. It is a nice paranormal romance with hints of danger. There is action but mainly towards the end. The characters are likable but unfortunately, not very believable. The situations Rose and Sage find themselves in are simply not possible. In real life, if people acted the way these two characters act with the police, they would have been arrested and sent to jail.

The love interest for both women is equally unrealistic. Police officers do not treat possible suspects, or those they think may be involved in illegal activities in the manner these male characters treat the two women. Even after the women continually lie to them about a case. People may well fall in love at first sight. However, detectives investigating a possible crime usually do not allow personal feelings to stand in the way of their job. They don’t take evidence in a crime out of evidence and give it back to the “owner” even if that owner is a little girl.

The ending is the best part of this book overall. The writing is smooth, but the book needs editing and proper formatting. Unfortunately, the very last page of the book makes everything else pale in comparison to all the other unbelievable events. The ending had the potential to be great but was too abrupt with no back story to help the reader envision the scene. This would have done better as a romantic fantasy instead of a cozy mystery.

All of this said, Sage it Out does have moments that make the reader smile and even wish the events happened in real life. It isn’t a terrible book, but it needs more depth, better-developed characters, and more believable scenarios.