A Review of Terri Garey's Dead Girls Are Easy

Romance author Terri Garey’s debut paranormal romance novel, Dead Girls Are Easy sees boutique owner Nicki Styx is having a bad day. Rushed to the hospital with heart trouble, only to wake up from the experience to learn she nearly died, was saved by a handsome doctor named Joe Bascomb. . . oh, and for the record, she can now see and hear ghosts. And from there it’s all downhill. Barely settled over the fact that she was, you know, dead, she discovers something else: the ghosts aren’t just quietly hovering; they each want something from her. First it’s Irene Goldblatt, who has a message for her husband, which doesn’t seem so bad at all, to Nicki, and then when Joe gets a whiff of what she can do, he wants to write a paper about her near death experience and she finds herself as a test subject. Not really so bad, when she’s becoming more interested in, and attracted to, the handsome doctor, by the day.

But then Nicki’s friend Caprice is murdered, and she (a former voodoo practitioner)—has a little request of Nicki, nay, an order; and she better do what Caprice says, or else. So Nicki finds herself with a choice between spending haunted nights at home with a very pushy ghost, or spending those same nights, safely ensconced in Dr. Bascomb’s apartment, and bed. What’s a former goth girl to do, but accept the offered accommodations, and track down a voodoo priestess to help her deal with Caprice? There are other skeletons in the closet and while Nicki’s learning how to deal with her ghost probably, she has a pleathora of trouble to fix in other areas of her life—and so, it seems, does Joe, who, turns out, was once married to Nicki’s long lost twin sister.

How much can one gal take? How do Nicki and Joe deal with all these problems, and will they survive? And will they ever be able to sleep without a nightlight, ever again?

You’ll have to read to find out!

Part Beetlejuice, part Believers, part Steel Magnolias, part . . . well, romance, Terri Garey’s Dead Girls Are Easy is a hilarious, sexy novel that really hit all the highs and lows for me: One minute I was laughing, the next crying, the next totally jumping at every little noise outside, and even wouldn’t read this one within hours of heading to bed! But all in all, I enjoyed it immensely and look forward to reading more of Nicki’s antics (and with that in mind, let me point out the fourth book in the series is due out October 27, 2010). Since Halloween is right around the corner, this is the perfect time to delve into this one! Do give Dead Girls Are Easy a try. I’m sure you’ll be hauntingly surprised. ;) If you'd like to find a copy of this, of course you can do so online at amazon.com.

And Terri kindly did a Q and A with me at the Examiner last year. If you'd like to see that, it's here.

(Per FTC: Where'd I get my reading copy? At the local Borders bookstore. And, since there was a book signing going on at the time, Terri kindly signed it for me too! :))

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