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Book Review – Dead Girls Are Easy by Terri Garey

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Dead Girls Are Easy (Nicki Styx, Book 1)
This was another fun and easy read! Lighthearted, a bit of romance, and a touch of scary!

Ok so it goes like this: The main character, Nicki Styx (yah…I suspect someone likes Motley Crue – speaking of which, have any of you read Nikki Sixx’s book? Good stuff too!!), okay anyway…

So Nicki (a spunky, goth-ish, female) almost dies from complications due to a genetic heart defect, and upon being revived, discovers an ability. She sees dead people (well, at least, their ghostly counterparts). Her handsome doctor develops a crush on her and follows her through her trials and tribulations.

The look on Dr. Handome’s face was priceless, no matter how fleeting. It wouldn’t do for him to form any impressions about me that weren’t true. I wasn’t the kind of girl he’d take home to his mama, and I didn’t wanna be.

While he’s not 100% convinced her “sightings” are real, he includes her in his “near death experience” study. A straight arrow (and totally not usually her type) his charm and boyish good looks eventually melt through her tough-girl exterior.  Sidenote: I would have liked more interaction between these two. I enjoyed the parts of their relationship that we were privy to (they’re very sweet together), but their budding relationship is really just a tiny part of her crazy life, at least in this book.

While most of her hauntings involve helping sweet little old ladies looking for some closure, one ghost in particular (her friend, Caprice), while alive, was deeply involved in voodoo, now dead needs her for far more sinister reasons.

Mo leaned in, glancing around uneasily. “You don’t know what you messing with here, girl. That thing ain’t Caprice – it’s a duppy. You need to go to a mambo and get rid of it, quick.

Coping with her new scary situation, while uncovering information about her genetic ties (she was adopted – and this part of the story is sure to take on a life of it’s own), Nicki rediscovers and re-evaluates her past, present and potential future.

You’ll enjoy her friends, her outrageous encounters, and her internal musings are certain to make you laugh. If you’re looking for intense, or steamy, this isn’t it (well, I take it back for the intense part – some of the voodoo rituals were pretty creepy). If you’re looking for an enjoyable/exciting/comical read that won’t have your emotions in turmoil, look no further!

A sweet moment that had me chucking (who hasn’t had this silly conversation before?):

A sweet kiss, devoid of passion, yet one of the best I’d ever had. I buried my face in his neck and held on, feeling safe for the first time that day.

“You’re a lot of trouble, Nicki Styx.”

“I am.”

“You make me crazy.”

“I do.”

I’m curious with this is going to go, and thrilled there are four more books to help get me there!

3.75 stars

Check out the entire series reading order here ——> Terri Garey – Nicki Styx Series Reading Order

Goodies Arrived in the Mail (& Some Bookmarks For You Too!)

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Looky what I got! I love mail with brown book-sized packages!

I received the latest book from Leanna Renee Hieber: The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker (review coming soon!!)

I also received an ARC of Shadow Bound by Erin Kellison (expected release date: July 2010) – this one looks great!

And a pile of bookmarks and “collector cards” for Tsunami Blue (by Gayle Ann Williams). By the way – these are for you guys 😉

I have 24 sets to give away (okay, I’ll admit, it was 25 sets, but I kept a set :|). All you have to do is leave a comment on my review for Tsunami Blue (please make sure it’s relevant to the book in question), and I will send a set to the first 24 visitors that leave a comment relevant to the book or to my REVIEW (and if you read the book, what was your favorite part?). Don’t post your mailing address in the comments section (just send me that by clicking on “contact me”). Since I’m covering the cost of the stamp, this is valid to the continental United States only.

  

Shannon K Butcher – The Sentinel Wars Series Reading Order:

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An excerpt from the author’s website:

They are the Sentinels. Three races descended from ancient guardians of mankind, each possessing unique abilities in their battle to protect humanity against their eternal foes: the Synestryn.

     

Cassandra Clare – Mortal Instruments Series Reading Order:

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This one comes highly recommended (I get emailed about this series on a weekly basis!!)
My great friend Jackie loves the series!
“I’ve also read The Mortal Instruments series that starts with City of Bones. I thought it was a brilliant series”
and Cynthia agrees:
“You ought to try Cassandra Clare w/the Mortal Instruments series.. these are awesome!”
and Ricci told us it helped her get over Twilight:
“The Mortal Instruments – City of Bones got me hooked. A must read for anyone that loved twilight and I can’t stress it enough!!!!!!”
About book #1:
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder—much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing—not even a smear of blood—to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?This is Clary’s first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It’s also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace’s world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . .Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare’s ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.

        

Taken from the author’s website in regards to what the series is about:

City of Bones begins with a sixteen-year old girl named Clary Fray, who lives in New York with her mother, an artist. She comes home one night to find her apartment ransacked, her mother gone — and a slavering demon ready to tear off her head. Once the demon’s dealt with, Clary follows the clues to her mother’s disappearance into an alternate New York filled with hideous demons, hard-partying warlocks, not-what-they-seem vampires, an army of werewolves and the scariest thing of all: the secrets of her mother’s past. She also finds herself torn between two boys — her best friend Simon, for whom she’s developing new feelings, and the mysterious demon hunter Jace, who has a past more tangled than her own. She becomes a part of the secret word of the demon hunters, or Nephilim, and as she does discovers she might be more connected to them than she originally thought. City of Ashes continues Clary’s adventures with Simon, the demon hunters Jace, Isabelle and Alec, the warlock Magnus, and the mysterious Raphael. City of Glass takes the characters to the demon hunters’ exotic home country, Idris.

Another note from the author regarding the upcoming book “The Clockwork Angel” from her companion series (Infernal Devices) to The Mortal Instruments:

The next Shadowhunter book is the first of a trilogy of prequels to the Mortal Instruments series, called The Infernal Devices. It is set in London and deals with characters related to those in the Mortal Instruments books; the first volume, The Clockwork Angel, will be released September 7, 2010. The fourth Mortal Instruments book, City of Fallen Angels, will be released March 11, 2011. (It is recommended that you read The Clockwork Angel before starting CoFA, as some of the characters from Clockwork show up in it, but it’s not required.)