Blurb: A smashing, award-winning debut novel that introduces Charley Davidson: part-time private investigator and full-time Grim Reaper Charley sees dead people. That’s right, she sees dead people. And it’s her job to convince them to “go into the light”. But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e. murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice.
Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she’s been having about an Entity who has been following her all her life… and it turns out he might not be dead after all. In fact, he might be something else entirely.
3 stars
I listened to this audio book free through my Overdrive app. This book was funny to me at first. The MC was witty, sarcastic and clairvoyant. I laughed quite a bit. But, then her growth started to stagnate and her sarcasm started to get annoying.
The plot started out pretty easy to understand, which was good considering the story itself was meant to be a quick read. About halfway through the book though, the author seemed to change her mind and added a bunch of stuff that I felt was unnecessary to the story. I got a bit confused as to the whys of some of it, thereby losing interest even more.
I hated the ending because I didn’t get any kind of closure that I felt was needed. The minor plot was tied up but the major one was left hanging. When I went to see how long the series was, I realized I didn’t have the stamina or the patience to get any deeper into this series so I could find out what happens. Which is a shame.
If you want a long series to savor, this is for you. If you are like me and crave near instant gratification, I’d pass.
I’ve seen this one recommended quite a bit and have always been curious…but like you, I’m not a LONG series reader. I’ll tolerate up to 4, but past that it has to be a favourite author.
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