Psycop Books 2 - 6 by Jordan Castillo Price
Psycop: Criss Cross Bk 2, Body and Soul Bk 3, Secrets Bk 4, Camp Hell Bk 5, Ghost TV Bk 6 
Author: Jordan Castillo Price
Tags: series, m/m romance, m/m slash, male slash, action, drama, mystery, thriller, urban fantasy, price
Length: Bk 2 - 131 pages, Bk 3 - 138 pages, Bk 4 - 168 pages, Bk 5 - 258 pages, Bk 6 - 300 pages
Rating: Okay, Fun
Blurb Bk 2: Criss Cross finds the ghosts surrounding Victor getting awfully pushy. The medications that Victor usually takes to control his abilities are threatening to destroy his liver, and his new meds aren't any more effective than sugar pills.
Vic is also adjusting to a new PsyCop partner, a mild-mannered guy named Roger with all the personality of white bread. At least he's willing to spring for the Starbucks.
Jacob's ex-boyfriend, Crash, is an empathic healer who might be able to help Victor pull his powers into balance, but he seems more interested in getting into Victor's pants than in providing any actual assistance.
Blurb Bk 3: Thanksgiving can't end too soon for Victor Bayne, who's finding Jacob's family hard to swallow. Luckily, he's called back to work to track down a high-profile missing person.
Meanwhile, Jacob tries to find a home they can move into that's not infested--with either cockroaches, or ghosts. As if the house-hunting isn't stressful enough, Vic's new partner Bob Zigler doesn't seem to think he can do anything right. A deceased junkie with a bone to pick leads Vic and Zig on a wild chase that ends in a basement full of horrors.
Blurb Bk 4: Victor Bayne's job as a PsyCop involves tracking down dead people and getting them to spill their guts about their final moments. It's never been fun, per se. But
it's not usually this annoying.
Vic has just moved in with his boyfriend Jacob, he can't figure out where anything's packed, and his co-worker is pressuring him to have a housewarming party.
Can't a guy catch a break?
On a more sinister note, Vic discovers there's absolutely no trace of him online. No trace of anyone else who trained at "Camp Hell," either.
Everyone Vic knows has signed a mysterious set of papers to ensure his "privacy." The contracts are so confidential that even Vic has never heard of them. But Jacob might have.
What other secrets has Jacob been keeping?
Blurb Bk 5: Victor Bayne honed his dubious psychic skills at one of the first psych training facilities in the country, Heliotrope Station, otherwise known as Camp Hell to the psychics who've been guests behind its razorwire fence.
Vic discovered that none of the people he remembers from Camp Hell can be found online, and there's no mention of Heliotrope Station itself, either. Someone's gone through a lot of trouble to bury the past. But who?
Blurb Bk 6: For the past dozen years, Victor Bayne has solved numerous murders by interrogating witnesses only he can see-dead witnesses. But when his best friend Lisa goes missing from the sunny California campus of PsyTrain, the last thing he wants to find there is her spirit.
Disappearing without a trace in a school full of psychics? That's some trick. But somehow both Lisa and her roommate have vanished into thin air. A group of fanatics called Five Faith has been sniffing around, and Lisa's email is compromised.
Time is running out, and with no ghosts to cross-examine, Vic can't afford to turn down any offers of help. An old enemy can provide an innovative way to track Vic's missing friend, and he enters into an uneasy alliance-even though its ultimate cost will ensnare him in a debt he may never manage to settle.
Hello everyone. So, on the encouragement of a fellow reader I went ahead and read the rest of this series. Despite the fact that I probably would not ha
ve based on my feelings concerning the first book: " Among the Living". So I pretty much had the same reaction to the following three books. They were okay but they weren't great. Things tended to just go and go and go and then suddenly with one little piece it all falls into place.
I do think that the last two books of this series were the best. 1. They were longer and built up more than the original books. 2. They contained more character information, back story and plot. 3. There were larger underlying plot points that were actually being continued and worked on.
However, to be honest with you I still got rather board with the last book by about the middle. It was obvious to me some of what was going on and yet all the characters kept twiddling around not getting anywhere. Don't get me wrong, I like the characters, I like the ideas and for the most part I think the books work well. I just feel that the plot and the build up could use more work.
Now there are also a number of short stories attached to this series, which I did not read. But for those who might be interested:
PSYCOP SHORTS
Many Happy Returns
Striking Sparks
Stroke of Midnight
Mind Reader
Thaw
Author: Jordan Castillo Price
Tags: series, m/m romance, m/m slash, male slash, action, drama, mystery, thriller, urban fantasy, price
Length: Bk 2 - 131 pages, Bk 3 - 138 pages, Bk 4 - 168 pages, Bk 5 - 258 pages, Bk 6 - 300 pages
Rating: Okay, Fun
Blurb Bk 2: Criss Cross finds the ghosts surrounding Victor getting awfully pushy. The medications that Victor usually takes to control his abilities are threatening to destroy his liver, and his new meds aren't any more effective than sugar pills.
Vic is also adjusting to a new PsyCop partner, a mild-mannered guy named Roger with all the personality of white bread. At least he's willing to spring for the Starbucks.
Jacob's ex-boyfriend, Crash, is an empathic healer who might be able to help Victor pull his powers into balance, but he seems more interested in getting into Victor's pants than in providing any actual assistance.
Blurb Bk 3: Thanksgiving can't end too soon for Victor Bayne, who's finding Jacob's family hard to swallow. Luckily, he's called back to work to track down a high-profile missing person.
Meanwhile, Jacob tries to find a home they can move into that's not infested--with either cockroaches, or ghosts. As if the house-hunting isn't stressful enough, Vic's new partner Bob Zigler doesn't seem to think he can do anything right. A deceased junkie with a bone to pick leads Vic and Zig on a wild chase that ends in a basement full of horrors.
Blurb Bk 4: Victor Bayne's job as a PsyCop involves tracking down dead people and getting them to spill their guts about their final moments. It's never been fun, per se. But
it's not usually this annoying.
Vic has just moved in with his boyfriend Jacob, he can't figure out where anything's packed, and his co-worker is pressuring him to have a housewarming party.
Can't a guy catch a break?
On a more sinister note, Vic discovers there's absolutely no trace of him online. No trace of anyone else who trained at "Camp Hell," either.
Everyone Vic knows has signed a mysterious set of papers to ensure his "privacy." The contracts are so confidential that even Vic has never heard of them. But Jacob might have.
What other secrets has Jacob been keeping?
Blurb Bk 5: Victor Bayne honed his dubious psychic skills at one of the first psych training facilities in the country, Heliotrope Station, otherwise known as Camp Hell to the psychics who've been guests behind its razorwire fence.
Vic discovered that none of the people he remembers from Camp Hell can be found online, and there's no mention of Heliotrope Station itself, either. Someone's gone through a lot of trouble to bury the past. But who?
Blurb Bk 6: For the past dozen years, Victor Bayne has solved numerous murders by interrogating witnesses only he can see-dead witnesses. But when his best friend Lisa goes missing from the sunny California campus of PsyTrain, the last thing he wants to find there is her spirit.
Disappearing without a trace in a school full of psychics? That's some trick. But somehow both Lisa and her roommate have vanished into thin air. A group of fanatics called Five Faith has been sniffing around, and Lisa's email is compromised.
Time is running out, and with no ghosts to cross-examine, Vic can't afford to turn down any offers of help. An old enemy can provide an innovative way to track Vic's missing friend, and he enters into an uneasy alliance-even though its ultimate cost will ensnare him in a debt he may never manage to settle.
Hello everyone. So, on the encouragement of a fellow reader I went ahead and read the rest of this series. Despite the fact that I probably would not ha
ve based on my feelings concerning the first book: " Among the Living". So I pretty much had the same reaction to the following three books. They were okay but they weren't great. Things tended to just go and go and go and then suddenly with one little piece it all falls into place.
I do think that the last two books of this series were the best. 1. They were longer and built up more than the original books. 2. They contained more character information, back story and plot. 3. There were larger underlying plot points that were actually being continued and worked on.
However, to be honest with you I still got rather board with the last book by about the middle. It was obvious to me some of what was going on and yet all the characters kept twiddling around not getting anywhere. Don't get me wrong, I like the characters, I like the ideas and for the most part I think the books work well. I just feel that the plot and the build up could use more work.
Now there are also a number of short stories attached to this series, which I did not read. But for those who might be interested:
PSYCOP SHORTS
Many Happy Returns
Striking Sparks
Stroke of Midnight
Mind Reader
Thaw