Review: Enjoyable paranormal romance / drama
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2011
It's actually hard to categorize this book since so many things are taking place.  There's mystery, family drama, romance, betrayal, subplots... it's like some of Nora Roberts older works, only with ghosts.Cassie Taylor is a very lonely, very single, slightly overweight but she doesn't care cause she's given up on men, woman with the unique ability to interact with ghosts.  She uses this ability to help ghosts move on from this world with the help of her best and only pal in the world, Joe, who also happens to be a ghost.  Cassie is hired by Luke Rivers, a famous rocker/songwriter when he buys a house to provide for his ten year old daughter he never knew he had.  It turns out the house is haunted and Cassie shocks them when she tells them the ghost is here because she was murdered.  No one takes this news more poorly than the ghost herself and challenges Cassie to prove it which essentially throws her into finding out what happened to her.  Meanwhile, Cassie and Luke have an immediate attraction to one another and Cassie finds she's breaking all her personal rules about getting involved, not only with Luke, but with his very troubled daughter as well.Overall, the story is enjoyable, but I have to say there's alot going on and although it isn't confusing, you do ask yourself what the point of some things are.  I don't know if this is the start of a series.  If so, that would make sense because several side stories were introduced, but there was no closure to them.  Cassie and Luke's attraction was also just a might too instantaneous and I'm not really sure I fell for it, or what was even driving it. One thing for sure is that I wasn't quite sure how we were going to get to the end and just how much unfolds.  There's lots of things Cassie uncovers during her investigation, but its relevancy to the story is less than insignificant.  The murderer is revealed early on, but red herrings are still thrown into the mix in terms of co-conspirators. It really could have gone in any direction, but it ended up going the path most travelled.