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| Divine Intervention | 
 enlarge | Author: Cheryl Kaye Tardif
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 258
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1412035910
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781412035910
Publication Date: July 27, 2004
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CFBI agent Jasmine McLellan is assigned a hot caseone that requires the psychic abilities of the PSI Division, a secret government agency located in the secluded town of Divine, BC. Jasi leads a psychically gifted team in the hunt for a serial arsonista murderer who has already taken the lives of three innocent people. Unleashing her gift as a Pyro-Psychic, Jasi is compelled toward smoldering ashes and enters the killer's mind. A mind bent on destruction and revenge. Jasi's team, consisting of Psychometric Empath and profiler, Ben Roberts, and Victim Empath, Natassia Prushenko, is led down a twisting path of dark, painful secrets. Brandon Walsh, the handsome, smooth-talking Chief of Arson Investigations joins them in a manhunt that takes them across British Columbiafrom Vancouver to Kelowna, Penticton and Victoria. While impatiently sifting through the clues that were left behind, Jasi and her team realize that there is more to the third victim than meets the eye. Perhaps not all of the victims were that innocent. The hunt intensifies when they learn that someone they know is next on the arsonist's list. The case heats to the boiling point as Jasi steps out of the flamesand into the fire. And in the heat of early summer, Agent Jasi McLellan discovers that a murderer lies in waitmuch closer than she imagined.
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 Excellent paranormal novel December 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a paranormal nut.
Divine Intervention introduces us to the world of paranormal investigators who are part of the CFBI. Matthew Divine has gathered the best of the best - an psychometric empath who can 'read' you when he touches you - Ben, Natassia, a Russian victim empath who can literally enter the dead to read their last moments, and our heroine, Jasi McClellan, who is a pyro-psychic - she can go into the ruins of a fire and be able to know what happened inside.
Together the team tries to find a serial arsonist, who plays a game of cat and mouse with them and all law enforcement.
A noted doctor was tortured and burned in his home, and his father is the Premier of Canada. This is a high profile investigation!
A handsome member of the investigative team, Brandon Walsh, joins the group and finds he and Jasi have great attraction and chemistry. The problem is Jasi resists any involvement because it throws her powers out of whack!
With a great cast of characters, suspects, and action, Ms. Tardif has written the first of I hope many Divine adventures.
I am a fan of the Kay Hooper books where the investigators all have psychic powers, but think our Canadian counterpart has a better chemistry than those books. Also Ms. Tardif has been called the Canadian J.D. Robb - a great compliment!
Ms. Tardif has also written the much acclaimed Whale Song. I look forward to more from her as she's gotten me hooked on the PSI Team - Psychic Skills Investigators -
Great read!
reviewed for Midwest Book Reviews December 3, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've been a fan of Canadian author Cheryl Kaye Tardif since I read her third novel Whale Song: A Novel, the book that led me to her second novel The River. Both those books blew me away, so I had to go back to read this debut novel.
I just finished reading Divine Intervention and I must say that Tardif had the gift right from the first. The Muses certainly are smiling down on her. She's a natural writer with a gift for words, great imagination, fabulous imagery, dialogue and characterization. But what "makes" a book for me is pacing, and I'm pleased to report that her pacing is impeccable!
This chilling page-turner is a genuine Canadian crime novel set in the not-too-distant future of the year 2012. Since Tardif wrote this book in 2004, she projected eight years into the future to bring us agents with skills that are only just now being recognized in real life. One difference I note from the present time is the unique higher-tech methods of communication and security. Other differences, I think you will enjoy discovering for yourself.
This book starts with the main character, agent Jasmine McLellan, having a recurring dream about a little girl inside her closet, dangling from a pink skipping rope. Jasi has had that dream since childhood and has always tried to discover the source.
As an adult she has a special gift and heads a firefighting team that investigates serial arsonists who leave victims behind, smoldering in the ruins. She works for the Canadian branch of the FBI (a futuristic merger of two powers) and is a pyro- psychic, compelled towards smoldering ashes where her gift is the ability to enter the arsonist's mind, a dangerous gift that puts her at constant risk.
Her team consists of psychometric empath and profiler Ben Roberts and victim empath Natassia Prushenko. In this book the murderer/arsonist has already taken the lives of three people and Jasi's team is led all across British Columbia to try to solve the crimes and capture the killer before he (or she) kills again.
The case is complicated when Brandon Walsh - - Chief of Arson Investigations in the town where the latest arson/murder took place - - insists on joining them, even though Jasi's team takes precedence. Jasi and Brandon are attracted to each other from the start, but she doesn't want any close ties interfering with the investigation or her ability to "read the killer's mind." Due to Walsh's past experience, Roberts talks Jasi into accepting Walsh's help, but she rebuffs him at every turn...both his romantic and professional overtures.
Walsh has never heard of Jasi's or her team's special psychic abilities, so is skeptical of the entire crew. I suspect you readers will also be interested in learning exactly what Ben Roberts does as a "psychometric empath and profiler" and what embodies Natassia Prushenko's job as a "victim empath." So what happens when they make a believer of Walsh? Does Jasi ever welcome his help? And when all the clues finally lead them to someone she knows and likes, why doesn't she agree with the team? Is the killer the one they suspect, or is Jasi onto something?
The search intensifies when they learn the killer is going after someone they know, and as vital as it is for them to stop the killer before it's too late, I was just as enraptured by the romance between Jasi and Walsh. Will they ever solve their differences and get together?
Now that I've given you those "teaser" questions, I hope you will read for yourself to find the answers.
Tardif gives her readers plenty of twists and turns before reaching a satisfying ending. The case is solved in a surprise twist, but Jasi never learns much about the little girl in her recurring dreams. Since I enjoyed Divine Intervention so much, I can't wait to read Tardif's next novel. As a natural follow-up I hope it's "Divine Justice." In that book I suspect we'll learn all about the little girl hanging from the pink rope.
Highly recommended.
Reviewed by: Betty Dravis, December 2008
Author of: Millennium Babe: The Prophecy
Para-psychic, Para-psychotic, Para-captivating! December 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ditto on the previous reviewers who loved the scenery, intricate plot lines with twists and turns. I don't know anyone with para-psychic capabilities although I recognized each of the main characters. Their detective attributes were interesting, but their strengths and frailities were so real to me. I periodically paused along the way to match these people with folks I know - somehow, it became a real story to me. Read this book before you see it in the movies, because even though the film adaptation will have parts that will entice serious actors and actresses of our time, Devine Intervention captivated me and I think it will turn out to be better than the movie!
 Disappointing October 14, 2008
I'm not going to reiterate the plot because plenty of reviewers have done that already. This book has been compared with J.D. Robb's "In Death" series and if you're buying it for that reason, I'd reconsider. It doesn't compare. With some time, this writer could have had something going with this (it has huge potential) but as it stands, it reads more like a middle draft than a finished manuscript.
The premise is good, the psychic cop angle is interesting, the near-future is presented credibly. The problems are technical. The characters are two-dimensional, the supporting players are merely props, the illegal abortion sub-sub-plot confuses rather than enlightens, and the budding love relationships between the main characters seem superficial. They're all acting parts rather than living lives.
The characters move between Vancouver and Kelowna but there is little description of either place. They could be anywhere. The locations are props for plot-advancement and don't contribute anything significant to the story. The dialogue is a problem. There's a lot of it, but it's juvenile and stilted. I found some things really funny because they were so obviously contrived, not because the writer intended to amuse. There's no real depth to the characters. Their motivations are often obscure (we are told what they think rather than shown) and that makes it hard to develop any empathy for them. We're supposed to believe that they're seasoned veterans, adults, yet, for the most part, they're narrowly drawn and somewhat adolescent. I was curious about the reporter/psychic cop dynamic, but after an excellent introduction the reporter essentially falls out of the story and becomes something more to be discussed. There are elements that jump out and interrupt the flow of the story. In one instance, a character fails to consider checking the security cameras in a large hotel and has to be reminded by another member of the team. That would be the kind of mistake a rookie might make, not something a veteran with 8 years on the force would forget. The running element of male characters ogling female characters ((the Premier, the coroner, the firemen, the politicians) grows stale quickly. Opportunities are wasted. The coroner, for example, could have been a really interesting character instead of being just another ogler looking to score.
I think some real humor, of the dark hard-boiled variety, instead of the silly, highly-adolescent asides in the story, would have added a lot. The biggest problem is that the writer has been allowed to tell too much and show too little. We don't get to know the characters through what they do, we're told how to perceive them. That's not a writing issue. It's a problem with the editing.
This book could have used a decent editor. It went to print too soon.
A gripping thriller - "Divine Intervention" by Cheryl Kaye Tardif June 18, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Jasmine McLellan and her team of psychically-gifted CFBI agents race against the clock to discover the identity of a serial arsonist/murderer. The reader is swept along through plot twists, profiling, even politics as 'Jasi', herself, enters the mind of the killer.
Highly emotional, yet intriguing, "Divine Intervention" is the first of the 'Divine Series' by Ms Tardif, who has already made a name for herself with "Whale Song" and "The River".
"Divine Intervention" is set in southern British Columbia, Canada in the not-too-distant future, and is as well-written and moving as her previous novels. And for excitement and thrills, it surely doesn't disappoint! Divine Intervention
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