Two plot devices that are COMPLETELY ANNOYING

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	• What's a Ghoul to Do? (Ghost Hunter Mysteries, Book 1) Victoria Laurie Signet, 2007 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 42 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A little too Murder She Wrote for me

I recently read this and the second title in this series. M.J. and her partner Gilly are initially interesting, but I do not like the way that M.J. speaks to Gilly and Dr. Sable. She calls them buddy and pal (who talks to grown men that way?) and generally speaks to them as if they are children. They are constantly squealing and running away in fear. She states that ghosts cannot hurt anyone really and then Gilly takes a beating in both books. There is very little consistency. Also, Gilly graduated from MIT but he spends all of his time working in a business in which they are constantly scrounging for money? For what? It is also difficult to see Dr. Sable as her love interest. She seems to be hot for him one second and then making fun of him and his really bad (and unrealistic) accent the next. Both of these men are either wealthy and educated or at least educated. What is the draw to M.J.? I do not see it. Dr. Sable ( a well renowned physician who is bankrolling her venture)is made to sound like a doofus and M.J. often treats him as one. The mysteries are cliche and easily solved well before the book is ended. Also, why is it that she can speak with the ghosts in other cases so easily, but when it comes to the main case in the book, she has such a hard time getting a clue about what is going on? She often meets these poeple when she is in some desperate situation where she needs info and she can instantly win them to her side by telling them detailed information about their family members or loved ones who have passed on, but when it counts in the story line for the big case she is trying to solve, she gets nothing. I found M.J. to be patronizing and unrealistic, Dr. Sable is obviously gay and meant for Gilly (who treats him way better than M.J. anyway), and Gilly is every gay cliche ever written. The mysteries are not really all that mysterious and I think M.J. was based on Angela Lansbury (who did it much better) in Murder She Wrote. Hokey and contrived. Do not waste your time.

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Great Paranormal Investigation mystery

Fiction?? Ok maybe the story line but not the investigation.. I couldn't believe how right on the book was through out. I kept thinking either this author has a psychic/medium working with her or she's a psychic/medium.
Seriously this has to be one of the best books I've read in a long time. This is only the second author to have me laughing out loud while reading the book(first being Janet Evanovich). Honestly if you don't believe in ghost then the book will appear to be hooky to you. If you believe you will enjoy the book. It's an easy read moves along nicely and throws in some unexpected laughs...
Can't wait to read the next book in the series "Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend" I've found my new favorite Author...

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Two plot devices that are COMPLETELY ANNOYING

The first irritating thing about this book is the hero's inability to speak English. The first time it happened was cute-ish. The fifth time it was annoying, the 50th time, the reader is gritting their teeth and saying, can we just get ON with it already! It might have been fine for a single book but as this is apparently going to be a recurring character, kill this character habit QUICKLY.

The second annoying thing about the book was the fact that apparently, MJ is a medium who can get every single other ghosts name on the first guess, but when it comes to solving the mystery, she's reduced to "I'm getting an "M" name". What? She can get Rita, Miguel, Larry, Lily and Max at the drop of a hat, not even a L..L..Lily? but for the entirety of the book, in the main mystery, "I'm getting an "M" name"? And of course, all the female side characters have names that begin with...you guessed it.."M". That's just cheap and sloppy writing.

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M.J., her partner Gilley, and their client, the wealthy, de-lish Dr. Steven Sable, are at his family's lodge, where his grandfather allegedly jumped to his death from the roof-although Sable says it was foul play. But the patriarch's isn't the only ghost around. The place is lousy with souls, all with something to get off their ghoulish chests. Now M.J. will have to to quell the clamor-and listen for a voice with the answers...

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