Review: Lots of humour and some very poignant moments
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2014
Brenda lives a boring life by choice. Ever since she found her husband and best friend in bed together she keeps herself aloof from the world, and her overbearing family. What she can’t ignore are ghosts – they pop into her home from time to time to complain about being dead.As MEDIUM DEAD opens Brenda is settling down to spend the summer watching soap operas on TV when a ghost tells her that a serial rapist/killer is on his way to kill her and not to open her front door. Almost immediately there is a knock on Brenda’s front door an innocuous man called Brian is standing there asking to use her phone as his car has broken down. It turns out that Brian is a hostage and Brenda ends up opening the door to let Brian and his captor, the serial rapist/killer, in. Once in her house a series of bizarre events occur which leaves Brenda gobsmacked, Brian reveals he is a demon help bent on revenge – a sort of paranormal vigilante. Brian asks Brenda to be his partner, he needs a medium to find murder victims or him to avenge. Brian takes Brenda on a trial run to stop some bank robbers who have a heap of hostages that need to be rescued, what followed was hilarious slapstick that had me week with laughter despite the dangerous situation. Their next case, and the focus of the book, is not so funny. The ghost of a young girl turns up and says she is called Sacrifice but knows nothing else – where she is who she is and who her parents are. The hunt is now on to find her murderer, and gets more urgent as more young girl ghosts turn up and say they too are called Sacrifice.There is lots of humour and some very poignant moments, overall a good balance. There were a few loose ends left over at the end of the book, which leads me to hope that there will be a sequal. I enjoyed the book and would read a second one if there is one. I did get this copy from librarything, when I receive free copies I make no guarantees to right favourable reviews – this one I honestly enjoyed, just a little bit different.