Review: What happens when your guardian angel screws up and you die before your time?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2013
If you are (un)lucky enough - you will get the chance to become a Retriever for Afterlife Enterprises in lieu of being sent to Shade for 100 years. Oh, and be stuck working with your lackadaisical guardian angel, who is now on probation!After selecting a new body, home and identity - Lily has to go with Bill to have the blade smith, Tallis Black, forge her Retriever's Sword. Sensing her innocence, yes folks are heroine is pure, Tallis accompanies them to the Underworld to assist her in retrieving souls who landed in the wrong place due to a Y2K glitch. With Bill and a copy of Dante's Inferno as her Underworld manual -Bill is a laugh out loud, enduring, funny character with no shortage of witty one-liners that would make Steve Buscemi's character, Rockhound, in the movie Armageddon proud!You will genuinely like Lily, as she adjusts to her new situation and shows strength, depth and courage as she begins to tackle her hew life as a ALE Retriever.Tallis Black - he remains somewhat of an enigma but has left us plenty of hints as to where book 2 will go. My only complaint with Tallis - his "accent" can be disruptive to the flow of the book as you will need to go back and decipher a sentence here and there.The story will keep you hooked - but having greedily devoured everything HP has written - I will say this book is uncharacteristically "tame" but still a good read and a nice start to her new series!!3.8 stars