Review: Humorous, Charming and Addictive
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2013
The snark! I really liked the narrator's voice. Okay, I'll confess. I loved her voice. Miranda was funny, clever, sassy, and perhaps a touch crazy. That's my kind of heroine! It's a delicate balance that occasionally can result in an obnoxious, over-the-top, annoying character but when done right, they're my favorite. I'm so glad that Harper did it just about perfectly because within the first few pages I was salivating for more. Occasionally Miranda slipped into the too silly but I already adored her enough that I didn't mind."I squinted at the faded, peeling road sign that marked the fork off Sedgemoore Road. I was pretty sure the bold block letters were painted sometime during the Lewis and Clark expedition."My first impressions of Collin... I found him immensely amusing but couldn't for the life of me see him as the love interest. In fact, if Miranda hadn't occasionally mentioned his appearance and her physical attraction to him, I would picture him in my head as Lurch from The Addams Family (super tall, pale, no facial expression or sense of humor - completely unsexy right?). Once the book starts heating up my original un-receptiveness to him as the hero didn't matter. YUM!I was pleasantly surprised by how funny Driving Mr. Dead was. It reminded me of the earlier Stephanie Plum novels (by Janet Evanovich) which I absolutely love. Everything that can go wrong does in hilarious ways to poor Miranda and Collin ends up suffering for much of it - which may or may not have led to several serious cases of the giggles. Whenever Collin is personally affronted by circumstance I had to laugh.Driving Mr. Dead was an absurdly humorous, charming and addictive read. I absolutely cannot wait to continue on with The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires. My only regret in reading Driving Mr. Dead is that I didn't save it for a long car ride or something of that nature.