First Grave on the Right

First Grave on the Right By: Darynda Jones
A smashing, award-winning debut novel that introduces Charley Davidson: part-time private investigator and full-time Grim Reaper Charley sees dead people. That’s right, she sees dead people. And it’s her job to convince them to “go into the light.” But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e. murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she’s been having about an Entity who has been following her all her life...and it turns out he might not be dead after all. In fact, he might be something else entirely
I did not like this book. It was a pretty big let down, because I thought it seemed really interesting. I was a big fan of The Mediator series by Meg Cabot and I kind of thought this was going to be an adult version. Nope. Charley is a private investigator, but I'm pretty sure she should have her license taken away. She's constantly getting herself almost killed, and she only hasn't died so far because of other people protecting her. Another thing I couldn't stand about this book was her humor. I like to laugh and found her style of humor to be similar to Lorelei's on Gilmore Girls. Similiar, but not the same. I just thought Charley was pushing it the majority of the time. The third thing that I didn't like about this book was the two different story lines that just didn't seem to weave together very well. They just weren't balanced. I felt like I was reading a completely different book when I got to the last few chapters. As much as this book drove me crazy, I'm one of those people that can't start a book and not finish it. Since this book is the first in a series, I had to read the rest of the series as well. I will say the series gets much better, and I'm glad I continued reading them. So if you don't mind reading the first book to get to the good stuff, I recommend this series. Two Stars.