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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
I don't read a lot of cozy mysteries with characters over 30 or so, and I haven't enjoyed the ones I have read, so I didn't have high expectations for this one. Most of the ghost cozies I've read have also been mediocre at best.
Thankfully, however, this beat my expectations for both sub-subgenres. This story focuses on Prudence, a clairvoyant who tours Australia and New Zealand getting impressions from ghosts of people's loved ones. She's in her fifties and has never actually seen a ghost, until Levi appears to her. Levi was a police detective murdered while investigating another murder, and he tasks Prudence with using her skills to solve it.
The premise was already interesting enough. Add in Prudence's strong, no-nonsense character and her ridiculous friends and family, and it makes for a funny, memorable story.
The one thing I didn't like was the focus on romance with a ghost. It wasn't cocky, but it was a human/ghost romance, or the beginning of one, that bordered on uncomfortable. This is the first novel I've read with this kind of relationship, and it might just be something I have to get used to.
Despite the relationship weirdness, I had a lot of fun with this one. I'm debating buying the sequel, because I'm really interested in the story behind the town's other happenings.
Thankfully, however, this beat my expectations for both sub-subgenres. This story focuses on Prudence, a clairvoyant who tours Australia and New Zealand getting impressions from ghosts of people's loved ones. She's in her fifties and has never actually seen a ghost, until Levi appears to her. Levi was a police detective murdered while investigating another murder, and he tasks Prudence with using her skills to solve it.
The premise was already interesting enough. Add in Prudence's strong, no-nonsense character and her ridiculous friends and family, and it makes for a funny, memorable story.
The one thing I didn't like was the focus on romance with a ghost. It wasn't cocky, but it was a human/ghost romance, or the beginning of one, that bordered on uncomfortable. This is the first novel I've read with this kind of relationship, and it might just be something I have to get used to.
Despite the relationship weirdness, I had a lot of fun with this one. I'm debating buying the sequel, because I'm really interested in the story behind the town's other happenings.
Short but sweet; this was a tale of solving a murder with a ghost as the main witness.
Prudence has terrible, awful friends and family (apart from Uncle Tim; I liked him!), which made me sad for her.
Prudence has terrible, awful friends and family (apart from Uncle Tim; I liked him!), which made me sad for her.
Prudence Wallflower is a Clairvoyant Medium who travels Australia doing shows where she hopes to bring peace to people by letting them know about their loved ones. During the last show on her current tour, just as she is getting ready to take a break for Christmas, a ghost appears to her.
Before now, she did not see ghosts. She receives impressions and even short messages, but she has never met a ghost who could carry on conversation. And this ghost tells her he is a police detective who was murdered.
While juggling crazy relatives, stir-crazy cats and toxic friends, Prudence determines she must help this ghost and begins investigating, leading her into mystery and danger.
This was a fun, quick read. The only concern I had was that the reader was American. she was good, but it wasn't until the book mentioned Australia that I knew that was where it was set.
Before now, she did not see ghosts. She receives impressions and even short messages, but she has never met a ghost who could carry on conversation. And this ghost tells her he is a police detective who was murdered.
While juggling crazy relatives, stir-crazy cats and toxic friends, Prudence determines she must help this ghost and begins investigating, leading her into mystery and danger.
This was a fun, quick read. The only concern I had was that the reader was American. she was good, but it wasn't until the book mentioned Australia that I knew that was where it was set.
This one was a pretty quick read, didn't take me more than an hour to read (mostly because I skipped through a lot of the scenes with Prudence's annoying and obnoxious family and friends (other than Uncle Tim, who I really liked) that Prudence felt obligated to have over for Christmas. Prudence, who is a pretty straighforward no-nonsense person, puts up with her shockingly rude friends and family without kicking their rotten butts out of her house, especially Constance; I don't know how Prudence can call Constance a friend, and I'd have happily punched her in the face every time she opened her mouth. Prudence, take a hint from your parents and go on a cruise next year.
I really liked Prudence, a psychic medium who had never seen a ghost until dead detective Levi showed up, imploring her to help with the case that got him murdered, a case involving an up and coming actor who died and the question of if it was a murder or a suicide. And I really enjoyed the plot and if the friends/family crap hadn't been there and maybe a side plot added, it would've been a 5 star read; but with all the crap detracting from it, I can't manage more than 3 stars, mostly because I liked the main plot so much. I'll give book 2 a try, but if these mouthy people are in the next one, I'm going to give it a pass.
I really liked Prudence, a psychic medium who had never seen a ghost until dead detective Levi showed up, imploring her to help with the case that got him murdered, a case involving an up and coming actor who died and the question of if it was a murder or a suicide. And I really enjoyed the plot and if the friends/family crap hadn't been there and maybe a side plot added, it would've been a 5 star read; but with all the crap detracting from it, I can't manage more than 3 stars, mostly because I liked the main plot so much. I'll give book 2 a try, but if these mouthy people are in the next one, I'm going to give it a pass.