Review: Thankfully, the book was free
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2014
Yeah, the sample of this book gave me more hope for this book than perhaps it deserved.  What could have been a fun, afterlife version of Men in Black turned into a fairly lifeless version of R.I.P.D. (and for the record, I pretty much hated that movie).  The main character started out interesting, but the ability to show how a woman who died and got transferred into her dream body just wasn't handled well.  The background world wasn't developed all that well and there were certain logical inconsistencies that just kind of ate at me.  The secondary characters consisted of a "guardian angel" who was supposed to be the trash-talking rascal of the group but wound up just being annoying and unsympathetic, and the love interest was arbitrary (seriously, the first good-looking guy that she runs into?  Just because?) and so obvious that it was like a perfume-coated hammer to the face.  The main character never really seemed to develop into someone I would actually consider heroic, and her reactions to things were always over the top and somewhat inconsistent.  I will say that the love interest's dialogue was really well written in that you could pretty much hear the accent, but it wasn't enough to save the book.