Rainbow Reviews

BOOK BLURB:
Don't miss the riveting fifth chapter in the PsyCop saga, Camp Hell.

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?

BOOK REVIEW:
“Camp Hell” by Jordan Castillo Price continues the brilliant roller coaster ride of romance, fear, laughs, and horror that is the PsyCop series. This, the fifth book, has an ingenious, Kafkaesque plot that twists and turns unmercifully. I couldn’t, nor did I want to, put it down. I sat up half the night compelled to take this journey with Victor Baynes, a PsyCop who survived the government’s psychic testing facility that the graduates/ human guinea pigs call Camp Hell.

Victor is the antihero you can’t help but love and root for; even his bad choices make complete sense, given his background of betrayal and abuse. What is wonderful about this character is that he doesn’t wallow in his torturous past or become a victim of it ~ he is resourceful, impulsive and uses a wicked sense of humor (and anti-psychic medication) to deal with whatever life brings him. He is deeply impacted by his past but has the drive to survive at all costs.

His journey is intriguing and genuinely moving. He has only vague impressions of his time at Camp Hell, although he immediately breaks out in a panic attack at even the slightest recollection. His quest to uncover his past certainly reminded me of the old joke in the mental health field: “just because I’m paranoid, doesn’t mean they aren’t after me!” In this story, there is a very real sense of danger and paranoia that flavors all of Victor’s relationships.

This book is filled with complex, vivid people, like Victor’s lover Jacob, a masculine, sexy alpha male who is ferociously protective; their numerous sex scenes not only moved the plot forward, but also were aggressive, sensual, and hot! There is also ‘human lie detector’ Carolyn, Crash the empathetic, sexy bad boy, owner of a new age shop and ex-lover of Jacob, and Zigler, Victor’s PsyCop partner, a fireplug of a man who plays by the book, mostly. Even the fellow survivors of Camp Hell are fully developed and add excitement and motivation to the plot. The characters add such depth and realism to this tale; they feel familiar, like real people.

If you have read the previous four books in the series, what are you waiting for? Buy this book!!! If you have not read the previous four, they will add some depth but, even without reading them, this book will grab you by the … well, let’s just say you’re in for a hell of a good ride! Highly recommended! Enjoy!

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