Mind Games (The Disillusionists, #1) in Book Bloggers Anonymous

Sep 05, 2010 Jennifer rated it it was amazing

Shelves: para-other

Main characters that have nearly paralyzing mental issues make me wary. Usually, in the face of extreme neurosis, story lines suffer due to the extreme constraints the main character puts on themselves. That is most definitely not the case in Mind Games. Carolyn Crane does a superb job of creating a character that not only has a debilitating psychological problem, but goes on to utilize this problem in a unique and fascinating way.

At the start of Mind Games, Justine Jones is a hard character to ...more

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Feb 10, 2012 Torzilla rated it really liked it

Shelves: reviewed, highly-recommended

I love me some realistic heroines, and I think Justine topped the charts. I've never read a book about a heroine prone to panic attacks (something Karen and anyone who is good friends with me can affirm I suffer from), which made me feel closer to her character on a totally new level. She never annoyed me--okay, maybe once or twice---and she was funny as hell. No heroine has ever thrown a frying pan at someone she's pissed at, and I totally appreciated that sort of twisted humor.

I've been copin ...more

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Dec 02, 2010 Jen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: my-favorites

I LOVE this book!!
I've never been big on the physic type people unless it's written a certain way - but this book - I took a chance with it and I REALLY Liked it .

My favorite part .. She has a steady boyfriend - but her and Packard - they have this thing that is Electrifying!!! It's so cool! Their passion is so real - but they know they can't act on it - There is on time the lady she is supose to disillusion asked her what she was thinking of - and she just blurted out about her stollen kiss wit ...more

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Jan 16, 2011 Christen (GoldiloxReads) rated it really liked it

Want to take a bit of a diversion from the typical urban fantasy? Want to take a handful or urban fantasy and a handful of comic book and smoosh them up into a little ball? Want to get vicariously involved in a love triangle? Then why aren't you reading Mind Games?

Carolyn Crane's debut novel was absolutely wonderful! It did take me about 80 - 100 pages to really connect with Justine and get to the point of "I must read this book until I'm so tired I fall asleep with it on my face", but once I w ...more

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