Review: Struggled Sometimes to Finish the Book
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 8, 2012
Dead people had a lot of promise and there were some parts of the book that were good....but there were also chunks of the book that were boring and I struggled to stay focused and read onward.Cassie, as a character, was a bit of a mystery to me. She is a ghost whisperer and is supposed to talk with ghosts and get them to go to the other side. However anything beyond talking is not in her forte.  She is a horrible investigator, making no real attempt to solve the mystery of why the ghost was murdered. She will quit at the drop of a hat. Where is her tenacity, her drive to write a wrong?  She is spunky but never puts it into her profession. Yeah, she is an outcast and a wounded individual but you have to be passionate about something. Sheesh.The boring part:  Half of the book is the fight/struggle between Cassie and Luke to not have sex, not have a meaningful relationship, and to not like each other. It just dragged on and on... In fact it consumed the book more than the "mystery"... Because frankly we are told upfront within the first 50 or so pages who did it. ( Unless you are Law and Order that is hard to pull off and not make it boring. )Was it a dud? No, and I did not dislike it. 2.5 stars rounded up for the good parts. The plot was there and the mystery was there, hovering in the background,  it either needed to be tightened up or the book shortened by 75-100 pages.