Review: Romance and the Grim Reaper
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 12, 2013
4.5 starsDavid Anderson is a reaper and one of Death's more experienced agents. He's been given the task of training a new reaper to collect souls.Sarah Griffin lives in the same apartment building as David and is responsible for her grandmother, a psychic who lives in a home. Sarah doesn't believe in things that go bump in the night or her grandmother's visions. She works at Cava Technologies where she conducts trials and searches for cures for diseases like Alzheimer's.With my love of paranormal romance, I was pre-disposed to like this book and it dragged me in from the first line - Death never took a holiday.I enjoyed the plot and the way the two main characters David and Sarah met and interacted and the obvious attraction between them, but it was the secondary characters who lifted this book and made it extra entertaining. There was the grim reaper rookie Adam and the big dog he rescues, Sarah's grandmother and her horrid boss plus Samuel, the reaper's boss, and the other reapers working the same area. This sounds like a lot of secondary characters but it all works beautifully.On the whole the plot was entertaining and kept me reading, although it could really only end one way and remain a romance. In that sense it was predictable.One thing I didn't really understand was the reaping itself and how the sentences (the number of years) were decided. I got that it was blood spilled and lives taken but it seems to me that a soldier should get a bit of a pass unless they go mental and kill indiscriminately. I understand this is the start of a series and I hope this area will be explored a bit more in latter books.Grave Intentions is a paranormal romance (not erotic) with a cast of strong characters and I enjoyed reading it very much. I look forward to further instalments.This ebook was provided to me free of charge by Net Galley for the sole purpose of an honest review. All thoughts, comments, and ratings are my own.