Lucy Banks
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The Case of the Deadly Doppelganger (2) door Lucy Banks
A fully immersive series that works as standalone reads as well as a compulsive series, One to watch out for!
22 yo Kester joins a company that is best described as Ghostbusters with an accent of British dialect and demeanor. Being an academic he prefers things that are "predictable". He is not at all comfortable when the group takes on the case of a haunted painting where the woman in the green dress that charms every man that sees it.
I liked this book very much and look forward to more in the series
Kester's mother has died with the instruction that he is to go see Dr. Ribero.
It turns out Ribero is Kester's father and a once famous "ghost-buster" . Kester's mother was Ribero's lover and had the skill of opening spirit doors that would pull the ghost back into the spirit world. Kester also has the same ability as his mother.
Dr. Ribero's Agency of the Supernatural is declining, they have more competition than they can successfully deal with until they are hired to deal with the malevolent spirit of the Green Dressed Ghost.
The spirit, loves human men but destroys their wives. A part of the spirit's story is told in the journal of Emmaline, whose husband falls in love with the spirit via her portrait, which Emmaline eventually destroys.
The new owner of the house, found the destroyed portrait in the attic & had it restored, allowing the spirit's return and it is now attempting to destroy the new owner's wife. She calls in Dr Ribero & his crew requesting that they get rid of the spirit.
The story itself is compelling and it held my interest (I wanted to know about the Green Dressed Ghost), but it started off excruciatingly slow and it annoyed the hell out of me. Seriously, it took the author Six (6) pages to get Kester into the agency once he found the street it was on.
More annoying was Kester's defeatist continual self-talk and even more annoying than that were two Kester's co-workers, they were nasty, mean, ugly people, and they constantly spewed negativity on every page they were on. In short, I disliked Kester, but I absolutely hated his two co-workers.
The reviews on the back of the book were way off:
* "Recommended for readers interested in modern-day ghost stories or edgier cozy mysteries" --Library Journal There was nothing remotely "cozy" about this book
* "...fun and compelling" -- Booklist I failed to see anything "fun" in this book, I don't believe mean nasty characters are "fun", unless written by Carl Hiaasen or Elmore Leonard
So, no matter how good the story, I had to knock off stars for: the hateful characters, the defeatist negative self-talk, & the first two dreadfully slow chapters.… (meer)
It turns out Ribero is Kester's father and a once famous "ghost-buster" . Kester's mother was Ribero's lover and had the skill of opening spirit doors that would pull the ghost back into the spirit world. Kester also has the same ability as his mother.
Dr. Ribero's Agency of the Supernatural is declining, they have more competition than they can successfully deal with until they are hired to deal with the malevolent spirit of the Green Dressed Ghost.
The spirit, loves human men but destroys their wives. A part of the spirit's story is told in the journal of Emmaline, whose husband falls in love with the spirit via her portrait, which Emmaline eventually destroys.
The new owner of the house, found the destroyed portrait in the attic & had it restored, allowing the spirit's return and it is now attempting to destroy the new owner's wife. She calls in Dr Ribero & his crew requesting that they get rid of the spirit.
The story itself is compelling and it held my interest (I wanted to know about the Green Dressed Ghost), but it started off excruciatingly slow and it annoyed the hell out of me. Seriously, it took the author Six (6) pages to get Kester into the agency once he found the street it was on.
More annoying was Kester's defeatist continual self-talk and even more annoying than that were two Kester's co-workers, they were nasty, mean, ugly people, and they constantly spewed negativity on every page they were on. In short, I disliked Kester, but I absolutely hated his two co-workers.
The reviews on the back of the book were way off:
* "Recommended for readers interested in modern-day ghost stories or edgier cozy mysteries" --Library Journal There was nothing remotely "cozy" about this book
* "...fun and compelling" -- Booklist I failed to see anything "fun" in this book, I don't believe mean nasty characters are "fun", unless written by Carl Hiaasen or Elmore Leonard
So, no matter how good the story, I had to knock off stars for: the hateful characters, the defeatist negative self-talk, & the first two dreadfully slow chapters.… (meer)
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