Vision Impossible

Psychic Eye Mysteries, Book 9

By: Victoria Laurie

Narrated by: Elizabeth Michaels

Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

Abby Cooper's next mission may truly be impossible....

Abby Cooper, the FBI's newest civilian profiler, is adding "spy" to her resume. The military's digital photography software that captures one's aura - just like Abby can - sits in a drone aircraft that's been stolen. It's a major breach in security, as every country's leader can be identified by their aura.... Abby springs into action to stop the criminals before they set their diabolical plan into motion, while making herself a prime target.

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Awesome Series!!!

What made the experience of listening to Vision Impossible the most enjoyable?

Knowing there was another book to follow this one..

Who was your favorite character and why?

I loved each character... Even the supposedly bad guy..

Have you listened to any of Elizabeth Michaels’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Yes.. all of the Psychic Eye Mysteries.. She paints a great picture in her reading.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, I did not want to stop listening.

Any additional comments?

Each book for "Psychic Eye Mysteries" kept me wanting more... I thoroughly enjoyed all of the books for this series... One more to go (Book 10) !!! Hopefully there will be another!

Abby given chance to "save her country"

Offered a way to help “save her country,” new civilian profiler for the FBI Abby Cooper does not really want this opportunity, until she hears all the details and learns that her boyfriend Dutch will also be involved. She accepts the mission and begins some grueling training on self defense, how to attack and how to stop an attack, basically taking “spy lessons.” She also has to adopt a disguise so that no one will know who she is or that she is psychic.

While she’s been learning to take care of herself, Dutch has been involved in the case undercover as a buyer for a new technology. A special military camera can detect people’s auras, just as Abby can do. However, the owners of this camera have, as reference, the aura of every major political and military leader in the world. This could lead to chaos in the wrong hands. Those currently in possession of the camera have loaded it into a drone aircraft that can hover and when it finds the aura of the target person, it can shoot poison darts that kill within minutes.

The new weapon is being auctioned off at a weekend extravaganza in the Canadian wilderness where the men show off their muscles while their ladies are gorgeous females dripping off their arms. Not literally but those are the attitudes behind the formal wear worn in the evenings. The auction is held at one man’s estate which is very difficult to reach, even by plane, and is defended on all sides, since it occupies an island. Abby attends on the arm of a diplomat while Dutch attends as a potential buyer. They are not mated or paired together so they must work out a way to communicate without anyone becoming suspicious. They must stop the sale of this camera.

This adventure had more “meat” to it and more to follow with identities and counter identities, pairing of couples together who really belonged elsewhere. Escape from the mission is just about impossible, so things can’t go wrong without dire consequences. I very much enjoyed this very suspenseful episode in the lives of Abby and Dutch. I found it very interesting to learn just how much training is involved to become a “spy” with the espionage and counter espionage. Always one factor balancing a counter measure. It really helped Abby see just how valuable on a grander scale her own perceptions could be.

Elizabeth Michaels reads beautifully, reading each character as distinct from others plus handling the foreign accents of all the foreign buyers of this weapon quite well. Being the ninth book in the series she has read, I have become very comfortable with her voice and her portrayals of the main characters.

All in all, a suspenseful and dangerous episode in the life of Abby Cooper, civilian profiler for the FBI and secret spy to save world leaders and their countries.

New Venue for this series

did not like this international intrigue as well as previous books.
really big finish ... somewhat overdone.

Great!

Love the books by Victoria everyone was just as mysterious and C had loved everything about it. Keep writing Victoria.

Mission impossible??

It was stll a lot of fun but I don't know if I like Abby and Dutch being Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I rather her be the Psychic who gets involved in the occatinal crime and not the spy who occatianly becomes psychic. But I have to say I loved the "bad guy" in this book... He is too attractive to not to come back!

Too far-fetched for me, too many improbabilities

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The whole idea of this story

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

it fit all the action which preceded it

Have you listened to any of Elizabeth Michaels’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Performance was fine

Did Vision Impossible inspire you to do anything?

No, just wanted to finish it

Any additional comments?

If ever psychic determinations were needed it was in this book.

A refreshing change of pace!

Abby Cooper goes International baby! Joining the CIA along with Dutch in a secret undercover mission, Abby gets in way over her head with this job ;) Abby has no idea what the CIA will be asking her to do until she's knee deep in it! With Abby being such a horrible liar, weak stomach for violence, and an overly sensitive psyche, it's pretty comical that she accepted the mission at all!

Dutch and Abby are whisked off to get briefed and trained by the CIA for this mission. They are to retrieve the information from known associates of a bad dude, while impersonating said bad dude, off of a machine that is very important and dangerous in the wrong hands, and steal it back, all while not getting killed. Are you kidding me?? If that didn't strike you with hilarity then it should of strike you with horror!

So the “in” for these two are: Dutch is going to take the identity of this bad guy who was recently arrested and being held in another country for being bad. This guy is awful! He has a bad gambling habit and debt, he only dates bimbos, and he likes to dominate and beat his women! Abby is going in as bad dude's bimbo girlfriend! So Abby is suppose to act, stupid, slutty, and obedient... we all know how that went, right?! So after Abby screwed that up and switched to being his business partner, (which had me rolling in laughter) things straightened up a bit, but not for long.

The Wonder Twins get deeply involved with their story, and start building connections and relations to get the scoop on where the stolen device is, and that makes for some interesting side characters. First one that dominates when she is around is Mandy. Mandy is the real life bad dudes girlfriend, but when Dutch and Abby figured her being around would just cramp the mission, they tried to get rid of her by him dumping her. That didn't work so well, LOL! Mandy becomes an intricate part of the story now. Mandy was true to form with being dumb as a rock, but not when it comes to money.

The fact that Abby and Dutch didn't end up dead was just pure dumb luck, and maybe a little of Abby's intuition. I really enjoyed this aspect of Abby and Dutch's lives because it took them out of their element, (home base) and they really had to stay in tune with each other and work on their professional skills in order to stay alive. Plus there was a bonus sumthin' sumthin' with Abby and one of the bad guys, wink ;) This was an awesome ride with the duo, and I can't wait to see what the future holds for them!

Narrator Elizabeth Michaels continues to do a wonderful job :)

one od the best of series

out of all of the psychic eye mysteries this one feels like a bonus tv movie after series is taking a seasonal break. fun and full of suspense!

Least favorite book in the series so far

What was most disappointing about Victoria Laurie’s story?

The author took Abby way too far away from her psychic roots. I liked the fact that Abby was a psychic who fought crime, not a crime fighter who was psychic. And there was just too much going on in Canada for me.

INNANE AND VAPID

This story leaves me yawning and my mind wandering. Even the narrator gave up trying to do something with it. All the character voices sound the same. The "My fiancé" line is used ad nauseam.

Victoria, for your information, U.S. $1,000,000.00 equals Can.$ 915,818.20 at today’s rate (August 08, 2014). Not quite at par but close. In this case you would round up, not down to half a million. https://www.google.ca/#q=1%2C000%2C000+canadian+dollars+equals+how+many+u.s.+dollars%3F