Review: Clean and Floss
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2013
Clean and Floss by Scott RhineNick Solace has an official job, but realistically, he is a dealer in favors. He always knows what people want, so this works out ideally when someone in government needs help or something needs to be cleaned. Need a parking ticket to go away? Nick will find the officer in charge and swap that ticket for concert tickets, or perhaps for a rendezvous with a popular pole dancer...whatever the officer seems to want...Nick is good at finding out what works.In this case, the book grabs you with the first line, "It all started when the body dump when south." Nick is called in to clean up a particularly gruesome mess; his forensic pathologist friend is performing autopsies on a new breed of zombie and Nick needs to dispose of the first zombie corpse. And that's when things start to go wrong.Clean and Floss is definitely a change from the norm in paranormal reads. It's a refreshing twist in the genre that is sorely needed. Rhine keeps the action going throughout with well-paced drama, humor, elves, dwarves, murder, mayhem, spirit-snatching, an evil twin, and more. With all that's going on, you'd think the novel would be overwhelmed, but it most assuredly is not. Rhine writes with a steady hand and clever mind, keeping the reader transfixed from beginning until well past the end.Unlike other, carbon-copied zombies, his zombies give one pause...are they out there somewhere?