Body of Intuition [Paperback]

Claire Daniels (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 3, 2002

Alternative healer Cally Lazar's sensory skills help her sooth her clients' auras. But once in a while, what she finds will make her jump out of her skin.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Berkley (December 3, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425187403
• ISBN-13: 978-0425187401
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,066,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Kind of Whodunit, December 30, 2002

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Raoul Zuleger (Sonoma County, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Body of Intuition (Paperback)

Body of Intuition by Claire Daniels (Berkley Prime Crime) is my kind of whodunit. The plot was intriguing, the clues fair (not too easy, not too hard), the charcters wonderfully developed and unique. And then there is the protagonist, Cally Lazar. If she wasn't fictional, I'd marry her myself. She is a witty, lively, smart, and good-hearted alternative healer who uses all of her skills to find a murderer at an ill-fated and sometimes hysterically funny intimacy seminar. I read the book in one sitting. And now I want to see the sequel. I rate both Cally and Body of Intuition five-star delights.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healing laughter, a mystery package--Cane Fu even, December 6, 2002

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Lynne Murray "Author" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Body of Intuition (Paperback)

I enjoyed this book. I found it a holistic prescription for fun-enjoyable side effects including laughter and a riveting story. Claire Daniels has provided a journey into the heart of murder at a "tantric couples" workshop with her heroine, medical intuitive, Cally Lazar, yet the book also made me laugh out loud. Those who enjoyed Jaqueline Girdner's Kate Jasper mysteries will find a similar deft, light-hearted humor (E.g., I adored Cane Fu, the discipline Cally's brother, a martial arts teacher, has created to empower those with canes). The details of heroine's energy healing practice were fascinating and the rustic Northern California setting was fun too--gotta love those goats in the backyard!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I want to like this..., February 16, 2004

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Elizabeth Lakewood (Fairfax, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Body of Intuition (Paperback)

I really want to like this book, but I'm torn between recommending it and throwing it through a window. The main character is interesting and sympathetic, the setting believable, and the mystery and resulting cast of suspects were compelling enough to keep me reading through the moments-of-serious-wincing.

Oh, but what moments they were. I agree with a previous reviewer, the made-up words need to go. In fact, I'd like to remove Cally's entire family and all of their history because it detracts from the plot instead of adding to it. The protagonist's family are constantly mentioned, and after the umpteenth reference to "the Lazars" in a chapter, one begins to wonder if they're a family or a species. The worst moments are when all of Cally's siblings descend en masse to the coastal inn where Cally is busy solving the crime, as this seems to be little more than a flimsy excuse to work in all of those quirky personalities that the author clearly spent an abundance of time coming up with. Unfortunately, the Lazars are more annoying than entertaining, especially when they all begin completing each other's sentences. The same goes for Trica, the catalyst character who should win the prize for "most annoying name." While the story behind the name is amusing, it looks too much like a misspelling of Tricia and kept jerking me out of the story. Ditto for the elements that were interesting the first time and grew annoying with the number of times they were mentioned-- especially the "forces of darkness" surrounding Cally's ex-boyfriend and the "cane-fu" sparring between Cally and her lawyer friend.

Cally the energy worker is an interesting premise, and I will read this author again. I just hope that further books in this series are a bit more even in writing.