Death Diggers Handbook #1
Stacey Rourke with M. Rourke and E. Rourke
Urban Fantasy/Paranormal
164 Pages
Blurb:
With the king gone, the veil fell.
Thrusting Carnage Crossing into a fresh hell.
A city of the dead. A town built by demise.
Torn apart by the livings' whim to exorcise.
The lineage was tracked and followed to a royal heir.
The fact she had a pulse a shocking affair.
Whisked through death's door with grisly splendor,
Her reign will begin when ties to the past sever.
Yet secrets slither in with a venomous bite,
Threatening to destroy all when they come to light.
Will the truth revealed bring peace to the dead?
Or unleash the Corpse Queen to come for your head?My Review:
Fans of Tim Burton, Beetlejuice, and Sassy Take-No-Prisoners Heroines will love Corpse Queen!
We meet Thades on the night of her sister Charlie's bachelorette party. They're visiting a psychic, it will be a night to die for. Suddenly dead from an Ouija board planchette to the throat (no, not kidding) Thades comes to in Carnage Crossing - the afterlife for the middle-of-the-road type who weren't super good or super evil in life. Not only that - Thades (now called Tempest Mortem) is apparently the daughter of their fallen king, Legaba and heir to the throne!
As Tempest adjusts to life in the dark, yet vibrantly described and constructed Carnage Crossing, makes friends, and comes to terms with leaving her old life behind and embracing her destiny we meet the colorful citizens of Carnage Crossing, explore the unique businesses, and learn about devastating exorcisms that have ripped citizens from their afterlife and made them well and truly dead. But who is performing the exorcisms? And how can Tempest stop them once and for all? One thing is certain, she's going to have step up and become the badass queen she was always destined to be.
I loved Thades/Tempest and the characters she meets in Carnage Crossing. Lugosi was awesome and I swooned for Gideon. I don't at all trust Charlie and I'm interested to see if she'll become a problem in future books. Also, there's Ambrose. Who I hope Tempest is over. I don't trust him either.
There is a playlist at the beginning of this book, one song for each chapter (except 2 for chapter 16), and I found it enjoyable to pull up Spotify and let each song usher me into each chapter. It made the reading experience so much richer.
Overall, I really loved this book, read it in nearly one sitting, and already I'm dying (hehe) to see what happens in the second book!
My Rating:
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5 of 5 Stars!
