Review: MacAlister's "Bring Out Your Dead"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2013
I love this story, which surprises me somewhat because MacCalister tends to have a lighter, more comedic tone to her writing than what I normally enjoy. This story just worked for me, though. I am not familiar with her Dark Ones series (wasn't even aware of it until after completing this story), and yet I was able to follow the characters, events, and overall rules of her mythical world without issue.While I like both the hero and heroine, the supporting characters really made this a "can't-put-it-down" story for me. The somewhat-vegetarian zombie protest group is one of the funniest things I've read in a while, especially when members start falling off the wagon. I love the flaky spirit guide who speaks only in her own butchered version of Frenglish. Even the bratty child vampire is the perfect amount of smart-bratty to be completely endearing instead of off-putting. Like I said, I like both the hero and heroine, but I think I like them all the more because they're forced to find each other and make a romance plausible while both playing the straight-man to an uncontainable cast of comedic secondary characters.MacAlister really knocked it out of the park with this tale. I loved it so much, I plan to try the rest of her Dark Ones series.