Format: Paperback, 291 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Publication date: 2006
ISBN-13: 978-0425212899
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Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
Harper Connelly had a lucky escape when she was hit by lightning: she didn’t die. But the lightning strike left her with an unusual talent: she can find dead people.
Harper and her brother Tolliver make their living from finding the dead, for desperate parents, worried friends . . . and police departments who have nowhere else to look.
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Review
This is the first Charlaine Harris book I’ve read so didn’t know what to expect. Story-wise it’s a good mystery and I didn’t guess the ending until…well, the end. I just never really felt connected to the characters though. Harper is really hard to figure out, one minute she’s streetsmart and mouthy, the next she’s a wreck and can’t function because she’s like a little-girl-lost. I’m not sure if this will be explained a little more in the next books but so far she’s not that likeable. Her brother Tolliver is a bit of a mystery too and I’m still not sure what makes him tick.
It’s a good book but I’m hoping it will become a bit more fleshed out in the rest of the series. I was hoping for more of her special ability of being able to ‘speak’ to the departed and the story did revolve around this, but there wasn’t very much of that side of things this time.
It held my interest to find out where things were headed all the way through so I’d recommend it, but it’s a fairly quick read and if I’m honest not a lot happened in this one.
Rating
| Characters | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Plot | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Pacing | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Writing | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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