First Grave on the Right

How cool does this book sound. PI chick who is really the grim reaper -she solves cases by talking to the dead and then helping them pass over to the other side. Cool! Not so much.

First, I can handle a little sex IF it has some purpose or something so the book opens with Charley having dream intercourse with some unknown dream person and its all hot and steamy, whatever - moving on. But what I can't handle is that the book reverted back to sexual undertones ... what am I talking about ... OVERTONES way to much for my taste.

I did find Charley to be funny, most of the time. There were a few places I actually laughed out loud. I really liked her secretary/sidekick Cookie and I really liked the three lawyers that you would think would play a major part in the plot (not so much).

SPOILER:

Anyway moving on the thing that really killed this book for me was the flashback to her early teen years where she meets for the very first time mystery/dream man. When he as a 18 or 19 year old threatens to rape her because she tried to save him from getting his butt kicked by his dad - that isn't his dad. Okay hold the phone: She digs this guy? She wants him in her life at all. Who grows up dreaming about the guy that pushed you up against a wall, hurts you, threatens to rape you and you never see again. Sorry it was all over me then. I kept reading because I liked the mystery part and then I come to find out that flash/boom she is abandoning the case the find her lost dream sex king.

There were moments that I thought I could really like this book. There are pieces of a story here that are really facinating but the writer just kept veering back to crazy murderous rapist guy and sex dreams.

Not my cup of tea.