Dead Weight: Cold Case Psychic Book 4, Pandora Pine

After the joyous end to Dead Silent we begin Dead Weight with so much happiness and hope.  But not everyone is happy about it.  Someone from beyond the grave is using every influence they possess to crush everyone involved with their unrest.  When Ronan becomes a casualty to their actions it's up to Tennyson and Kevin to find out just who and what is calling the shots before it's too late.

It seems like Tennyson is becoming the type of person who is quite emotional.  Not that he didn't feel and express before, but there was a consistent calm about him that seems to be gone.  He's much more volatile now when what he loves is threatened or hurt.  It's completely understandable, but his evolution isn't exactly slow; it seemed to go from 0-60 in a heartbeat in Dead Silent and isn't reverting or settling yet.  I'm interested to see just how he'll continue to change from here on out, especially since it seems his gift might be changing.

Ronan is going through a similar metamorphosis but in the opposite direction from Ten.  He's much more mellow and able to look at both the bright side and the outside perspective to have a much more balanced view on just about everything.  And with the addition of Dixie we get to see even more seriously gooey reactions from him.  I actually prefer the man Ronan is becoming to Ten but there's still so much good about them together that I'm becoming more invested in them as a partnership and a couple.

Dead Weight is an apt title here.  It carries so much heaviness in this one and while the ending is one of love and hope, it's preceded by a seriously depressing scene.  I was absolutely shocked with where we were taken and what we had to witness.  There was no deus ex machina, no last-minute save, no "just kidding" moment.  It was sad, frustrating, devastating, somber.  It fit, though.  I hated and respected it in equal measure.  It wasn't predictable and it shocked me out of the comfort zone and pattern I was beginning to expect in this series.  There are some things that many members of the story's cast kind of glossed over, like therapy, and I hope they will be touched on in the next book because otherwise it's quite a large oversight on the author's part.  While I do think that there are a whole host of issues for many of the characters that needed to be at least mentioned regarding what happened, I'm eager to see where we'll be taken next.

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