Review: Taking the 'grim' out of this Reaper
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2013
In his job as one of the Grim Reapers working in Florida, David, has been collecting souls for over fifty years trying earn his redemption for 'crimes' he committed while he was a soldier in Korea. Over the years David has tried every means available to blot out the tragedy and ugliness he's seen while collecting souls, and has finally settled into a self preserving numbness until the Fates step in and put lovely Sarah in his way.I thought Grave Intentions was pretty good. For some reason I am sort of a sucker for Reaper Romances - I like the idea of love being even more powerful than Death. And the romance was pretty good, both of the characters are likable and it was entertaining to see Sarah, who has used logic and reason as a shield against the woo woo stuff that runs in her family as she learns to see the world in a different way and as she helped the jaded Reaper lose some of his 'grim'ness. There are also some interesting players in the background making up the rest of David's fellow Reapers.For a story that keeps on bringing the reader in contact with deadly situations, the story had just a touch of gruesome but no overt gore in describing the events which precipitate the need for the Reapers to do their pickups (I am sort of twisted but I could almost picture a Dead Like Me thing going on but I guess that would have erased the hero's need to detach from his job and his newbie apprentice's plight as well.) I did have a minor nit with the story in that thought that there were holes in the way that what was going on at Sarah's work ties off, but despite that Grave Intentions was still a decent b-list read and since Grave Intentions is the start of a series, I will have to keep an eye out for the next 'Grave' novel which has lady Reaper, Ruby, in the lead.