Review: Entertaining paranormal romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 22, 2011
Cassie Taylor is a ghost whisperer. She is hired to get ghosts to leave this world and move on to the next. Her ability to see and talk to ghosts has made her an outcast with basically everyone who meets her, including her family. Due to the way people consistently treat her, she relates better to the dead than the living. In fact, her best friend is a ghost.In this book, Cassie has been hired by retired rocker Luke Rivers to rid his newly purchased home of the ghost residing in it. Cassie feels an immediate attraction to Luke and sees some of herself in his emotionally troubled and withdrawn 10-year old daughter, Erin. Not being a "people person", Cassie wants to make this a quick job and hit the road.Amidst the sexual tension and banter played out between Cassie and Luke, there is a "mystery" woven into the story (or maybe I should say more like suspense). Cassie must try to solve the "mystery" (in order for the the ghost to be willing to leave the house) while trying to remain emotionally unattached to both Luke and Erin.Cassie and Luke have some wonderful banter and Cassie has some great one-liners. I found myself chuckling one more than one occasion. In addition to the snappy dialogue, one of the things I liked best in this book is that the ghosts are actually secondary characters (not just there in the background). They have personalities and opinions and they make them heard.There are a few scattered typographical and grammatical errors throughout the book, for example, the use of "she" instead "the", "here" instead of "there or where", a missing "but" or "and". However, for the most part, the book is well written with a good voice. The characters are complex and 3-dimensional and the story is engaging.I don't know if Ms. Ramer has any plans to write another story featuring Cassie (and Luke), but if she does, I look forward to reading it.