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A review by kblincoln
Spirit and Dust by Rosemary Clement-Moore
5.0
Take a wise-cracking, goofy-nickname giving, almost-18 girl with the power to talk to dead people and throw her into a mafia don's hunt for his daughter kidnapped by a brotherhood obsessed with a Eyptian cult and what do you get?
You get a fun, romantic, snort-through-your-nose funny romp through museums, car-jackings, and nerd references galore.
Daisy Goodnight gets pulled into an FBI case, but it quickly turns whacko when a mafia mobster coopts her to find his missing daughter with his gorgeous but possibly-criminal lackey, Carson.
Carson and Daisy love to trade banter, make references to Lord of the Rings, and get themselves in and out of the Field Museum, the Oriental Institute, and various other places to search for the mobster's daughter as well as the mysterious "Oosterhouse Jackal" which the kidnappers have demanded as ransom.
There's so much fun going on here I'm surprised that it hasn't been snapped up for a movie yet. I mean gosh, you've got Indiana Jones like archeological fun, Night at the Museum craziness, a YA romance with a bad boy, and all kinds of psychic icing on this cupcake of adventure.
Let me give you a taste of Daisy's Texas-irreverant zaniness:
"Don't give me that 'magical artifacts don't kill people, people kill people' business, I said. You can pry my Goodnight Farms magical bath products out of my cold dead fingers, but I'm one hundred percent in favor of Nazi-face-melting artifacts control."
And then there's all the scenes where Daisy kisses Carson in order to pick his pockets...very lovely and totally sixth-grader safe.
Rosemary Clement-Moore has just made my insta-buy list. Now to go read her other books on the Goodnight Family.....
This Books Snack Rating: Garlic Parmesan chips for the solid archeological-action crunch of the plot flavored with cheesy-good romance and the flavorful garlic bite of psychic shenanigans
You get a fun, romantic, snort-through-your-nose funny romp through museums, car-jackings, and nerd references galore.
Daisy Goodnight gets pulled into an FBI case, but it quickly turns whacko when a mafia mobster coopts her to find his missing daughter with his gorgeous but possibly-criminal lackey, Carson.
Carson and Daisy love to trade banter, make references to Lord of the Rings, and get themselves in and out of the Field Museum, the Oriental Institute, and various other places to search for the mobster's daughter as well as the mysterious "Oosterhouse Jackal" which the kidnappers have demanded as ransom.
There's so much fun going on here I'm surprised that it hasn't been snapped up for a movie yet. I mean gosh, you've got Indiana Jones like archeological fun, Night at the Museum craziness, a YA romance with a bad boy, and all kinds of psychic icing on this cupcake of adventure.
Let me give you a taste of Daisy's Texas-irreverant zaniness:
"Don't give me that 'magical artifacts don't kill people, people kill people' business, I said. You can pry my Goodnight Farms magical bath products out of my cold dead fingers, but I'm one hundred percent in favor of Nazi-face-melting artifacts control."
And then there's all the scenes where Daisy kisses Carson in order to pick his pockets...very lovely and totally sixth-grader safe.
Rosemary Clement-Moore has just made my insta-buy list. Now to go read her other books on the Goodnight Family.....
This Books Snack Rating: Garlic Parmesan chips for the solid archeological-action crunch of the plot flavored with cheesy-good romance and the flavorful garlic bite of psychic shenanigans