Review: Had to struggle to finish it
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 7, 2012
I hate to abandon a book midstream, but if I didn't . . . this would have been an abandoned book.The foundation of the story ("grim reaper" sisters struggle to find out the secrets behind a new reaper outfit in town) isn't terrible, but the author doesn't do much with it.  One of the most frustrating things about the book is that it seems to cut off, almost mid-story, once the plot actually starts to go somewhere -- and we're encouraged to buy the second book in the series.  I'm sorry -- a book has a resolution, even if there are plot threads to carry into the second book in the series.  This is just a long teaser.  If the subsequent books develop the plot and explain more of the back story (for a paranormal book, there is way too little explanation of what it means to be a "reaper" and how it actually works), then they would be an improvement over this one.Another issue is something that I think, after reading another (no longer available) book by the author, is more unsolvable.  Jason Krumbine thinks he is way, way funnier than he actually is.  Most of the book is just page after page of wince-inducing "wit" between the two sisters or the people that they encounter.  One sister habitually responds to complaints about her sex life (she has one, which annoys her sister) with the phrase "Lipstick feminism."  Not once, but over and over.  What does this mean?  Krumbine apparently thinks it is hilarious and that we will think so too.  The humor is so leaden in this book it almost defies belief.  Unless you think somebody eating a bag of potato chips at an inappropriate time is rib-tickling, continue your search for reading material.