Dead Girls Are Easy (Nicki Styx, #1)

Dead Girls Are Easy (Nicki Styx #1)

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There's something about almost dying that makes a girl rethink her priorities. Take Nicki Styx--she was strictly goth and vintage, until a brush with the afterlife leaves her with the ability to see dead people.

Before you can say boo, Atlanta's ghosts are knocking at Nicki's door. Now her days consist of reluctantly cleaning up messes left by the dearly departed, leading g...more
Mass Market Paperback, 372 pages
Published August 28th 2007 by Avon Books
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Jennifer Wardrip
I really enjoyed this fun paranormal read!

When Nicki Styx has a near-death experience after suffering from heretofore unknown heart problems, she's sent back with the message "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

That sounded great, and the doctor who saved her life in the ER looks pretty dang good, too. But soon Nicki finds out just exactly what that whole "Golden Rule" stuff was about. The spirits of people recently departed, who have unfinished business on Earth, seem drawn to N...more
White Picket  Fence
Telling by the cover you would think that “Dead Girls Are Easy” is just another one of those books that is all about focusing on complaining, and the newest fashion. Of course there is some of that but, Terri Garey knows how to write without annoying the heck out of me. Usually I wouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover, which lets be honest I did kind of judge this book. But once I started reading it I found that I couldn’t put the damn thing down.

With characters that entertain you all the way throu...more
Netha
nicky styx, mengalami NDE - nearly death experience - coz her bad heart
namun setelah nde ada yang aneh pada nicky. tiba2 saja nicky bisa melihat & berbicara pada dead person.
nicky jelas tidak siap untuk menghadapi itu, sikap cuek & judesnya udah mau keluar tapi tiba2 nicky teringat lagi pada perkataan "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", saat kejadian nde-nya.
hal itu lah yang akhirnya membuatnya membantu Irene goldblatt yang mati karna keselak meatball suaminya.
Irene memi...more
Nawnee
Apr 15, 2012 Nawnee rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Everyone
Recommended to Nawnee by: Amazon
This is a great series that I stumbled across by accident, it reminded me of the Stephanie Plum series but with Ghosts and this made me laugh more and kept my interest longer. I love that the author seems to have named her characters in a method to relate them to some of Greek mythology like the reference to the Styx river that happens in this book, when all I could think about was Motley crue which actually isn't that far off either with Nicki's personality the rocker reference actually fits to...more
Nath
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Sonia
Prima esperienza con una pubblicazione Delos: risultato più che soddisfacente!
Non sapevo bene cosa aspettarmi da un romanzo con un titolo del genere Le ragazze morte sono facili... sono quelle vive a crearmi problemi!
Ad essere onesti mi attraeva e respingeva allo stesso momento.
Il mio lato curioso era disperatamente attirato da quelle parole; il mio lato scettico mi avvisava che sarei rimasta probabilmente delusa, che si sarebbe trattato solo di un romanzo superficiale, di quelli che si dimenti...more
Sarah Jordan
Love this! This is one of the smartest, most original paranormal books I have read in a long while.
Nicki is a great heroine - she is a smart, confident woman who came out of her goth stage with her black eyeliner and originality intact. She co-owns a vintage clothing store with her best friend, Evan, and has a nice life as a single girl in the childhood home she inherited. Nicki is a reluctant ghost whisperer following her near death experience, and her reactions are humorous and understandable...more
Christi Snow
Full review reposted from my Smitten with Reading blog...

My Review:
This book is simply a fabulously fun book to read. After being declared dead by Dr. Joe Bascombe, Nicki has come back from the brink with a very special ability...the ability to see dead people whether she wants to or not.


Nicki's a goth girl who owns a vintage dress shop with her gay friend, Evan. She's irreverant, snarky, and a bit of a rebel. She feels completely inadequate to deal with the emotions and layers needed to deal wi...more
Amy Jacobs
After reading Devil Without A Cause by this author, I just knew I was going to have to purchase the previous books written by this author. Ms. Garey has the ability to keep me stitches with her writing and characters while enjoying a story that is fun and quirky. The author's writing reminds me of Lynsay Sands and her Argeneau series. Fun writing and characters that are memorable make wonderful stories to sit down with.

In the first book of a series, Nicki Styx has a near death experience. Dr. Jo...more
Tracy
~* 3.5 Stars *~
A heart condition killed her. Fortunately for Nicki Styx, the condition wasn't permanent (being dead, I mean...she's stuck with the heart condition), though coming back from the dead isn't as simple as one might think. First, there was the near death experience (NDE) that left Nicki unquestionably changed on a soul-deep level, then there was the ghost of a woman needing a favor. As if those two things weren't enough, sexy ER doctor Joe Bascombe is very interested in her as a patie...more
Writtenwyrdd
Breezy, nice romantic element, and a gay sidekick who is adorable and funny and also has a romantic subplot.

I liked a lot about this one. It's pretty feel good despite the "I see dead people and it's screwing with my life" issues that comprise the main plot.

Having learned something about voudou in the past, I didn't really like the way the practictioners were painted, and I really found fault with the way some of the loa were portrayed (Damballa and Baron Samedi are 'evil'??? What the hey?) bu...more
Kelly
I joined a group on Goodreads that had this as one of the selections for April. I've since been removed from the group, but I had already requested this book on PBS. So I decided to go ahead and read it.
Lots of fun. Nicki Styx is a woman that knows her own mind and has no problem speaking it when necessary. She doesn't take crap and does what she wants. Then she dies for a few minutes and life is never going to be the same again. When Nicki sees an older lady enter her hospital room, she doesn't...more
Felicia
Bought for Myself
Overall Rating 4.25
Character Rating 4.50
Story Rating 4.00
Future Member of the Snort Club (I think)

NOTE: I was hesitant about picking up Dead Girls are Easy because I read Devil Without a Cause. I loved Sammy, so I wasn't sure how I would react to Nicki. My friend Christi said I had to read them because Nicki was my kind of leading lady. As always, Christi was right!

What I Loved: Nicki Styx! Terri Garey has written a smart nontraditional beauty. Nicki isn't afraid to speak her mi...more
Sonia
Nicki has never been an ordinary girl. With her goth-vintage style, the pink streaks in her black hair and her love for leather and lace, she doesn´t take crap from anybody. And she knows what she wants. She is perfectly happy with working in the vintage clothing store she owns and with having fun with her gay BFF.

And then she dies. And comes back to life. And now she sees dead people.

After coming over the first shock, she finds out that delivering messages from dead old ladies is not that bad...more
Cindy
This was a re-read for me, so that I can be brought up to date to read the whole set. I enjoyed this just as much the second time as the first...and THAT'S the sign of a good author! This book starts with our heroine, Nicki Styx (an individual in looks and life), in the hospital being resuscitated after "dying" from a heart attack, by ER Doctor: Sexy Joe Bascombe *sigh*. The next thing you know Nicki is talking with an elderly lady who just happens to be: DEAD. Nicki is freaked out, but handles...more
Crystal ♥ RBtWBC
If you like the Garnet Lacy and Jaz Parks series you will love Terri Garey’s Nicki Styx!

Nicki Styx is a late 20’s party girl who considers herself goth-vintage and very cute & stylish, from Little Five Points, Atlanta, GA.
She has a heart attack and dies but when reaching the white light hears a voice that tells her it is not her time and to do unto others, as you would have them do unto you, she then wakes up in the hospital to her best friend Evan Owenby and a very cute Dr. Joe Bascombe…the...more
Sara
Mmmm... hard to review this book. I liked parts of it, and I didn't like others... Some bits seemed rushed and uncomplete, while other bits were nice and really nice. I liked mostly the first part of the book, and got scared to death too at some point in Caprice's "ghost" presence (here's an advice: Never read a creepy scene in the middle of the night, in plain dark!), but liked less the last.

I'm not sure how I feel about Evan... He isn't bad... he just hasn't gotten to me.

Caprice was creepy a...more
Stacey
Very likable character. I'm going to read the next in the series when I have time. In the first chapter, Nicki dies and comes back to life. The near death experience leaves her with a new look on life, including now being able to see dead people. Some good stories around a couple benign "ghosts" she helps, and one good one throughout where the ghost haunts her and she has to use voodoo and a lot of chutzpah to save herself and her new hunk doc boyfriend. Part romance and part paranormal - that's...more
♥Tricia♥
Oct 29, 2009 ♥Tricia♥ marked it as to-read
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Kelly
Mar 15, 2010 Kelly rated it 2 of 5 stars
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When vintage-boutique owner Nicki Styx suffers a near-death experience, she comes back from the Light with the ability to see and hear ghosts. Before she knows it, the dead are hounding her day and night, in the hopes that she'll help tie up their loose ends. Sometimes this just means passing on a last message of love. But when Nicki's friend Caprice is killed, Nicki's life really gets messy.

Caprice's boyfriend Mojo has been thrown in jail, accused of Caprice's murder. Caprice wants him freed. S...more
Elizabeth
There's something about almost dying that makes a girl rethink her priorities. Take Nicki Styx - she was strictly goth and vintage, until a brush with the afterlife leaves her with the ability to see dead people.

Before you can say boo, Atlanta's ghosts are knocking
at Nicki's door. Now her days consist of reluctantly
cleaning up messes left by the dearly departed, leading ghouls to the Light... and one-on-one anatomy lessons with the dreamy surgeon who saved her life. All this catering to the dece...more
Serena
TRAMA: C'è qualcosa nel fatto di esser quasi morte che fa sì che una ragazza ripensi alle sue priorità. Prendete Nicki Styx: era una dark vintage, finché l'aver sfiorato l'aldilà l'ha lasciata con la capacità di vedere i morti. E in un attimo tutti gli spettri di Atlanta stanno già bussando alla sua porta. Ora le sue giornate consistono suo malgrado nel risistemare i pasticci lasciati dai cari estinti, nell'accompagnare i fantasmi verso la Luce... e nelle "lezioni private d'anatomia" del dott. J...more
Melvin Mathews
It's been sometime since I read a series, so it was really great to be able to read Dead Girls are Easy, which is really a nice read. I liked Nikki's voice, she was spunky without being OTT. Evan WAS OTT but was still eminently loveable. The other characters were also well-written and sictinctive. The only thing that I disliked in the book was Joe. For some reason I could NOT like him - not really sure why. Maybe because he was bland compared to the quirkiness of the other characters. I kept exp...more
Kim (Bookishly Me)
After a near death experience Nicki Styx sees ghosts. When her friend is murderd and comes to her everything changes. Her friend isn't just dead and needs help there is something else going on and she has to figure out how so her friend can rest in peace and safe her own life. T do this she finds help from her friend's granny Yulep.
The other part of the story is the love interest between Nicki and the hunky doctor Joe Bascombe. He is the atending doctor when she is brought in with a heart attack...more
Valeottantadue
http://my-empty-purse.blogspot.it/
Nicki aveva una vita normale, era una ragazza come tante, un po' dark forse, ma per il resto, per nulla fuori dall'ordinario. Rimasta sola dopo la morte dei genitori adottivi, era riuscita ad aprire un negozio vintage con l’amico di sempre, Evan, aveva una casa tutta sua e una vita serena.
Tutto questo fino a una sera, quella in cui il suo cuore decide di fare cilecca. Un difetto ereditario, una valvola miocardica e poco ci manca che vada al creatore. Ma i piani...more
Melliane
It was a nice book to read and perfect to relax. I really like novels about Voodoo as I don't read a lot about it. It's always interesting to learn a little more.
Nicki is a young girl different from others and it was pleasant to follow her adventures. She enters in a world she doesn't know anything about and since she sees the dead, she has to help them whether she wants it or not. I was a little unconfortable with the relationship with Joe. Indeed, I think the twin sister thing is a little wei...more
Tara
Another case of a book I would give 3 1/2 stars to if I could. This was an incredibly fast read, once I actually sat down and read it. I think it suffered a little from being the rebound book that followed my 2 weeks of BDB. I did enjoy it enough to continue reading the next 4 books in the series, and at the very least unless something drastic changes, I can imagine even if I never love it, I will never feel like I wasted my time either. It's a little light UF, I like the the supporting characte...more
Brandy
I liked this book.
I really did...
It was different, but not in the unusual sense.
I've read books like it before.
Same concept, different story.
Okay.
So, I have to get this off my chest.
FYI, I would like to kick Nicki Styx's ass.
She was so annoying and definitely no heroine.
Come on!
You're not so bright if you have to have everything spelled out for you.
Plus, all she did was rant about how she used to be this and how she is becoming that.
STFU!
I mean, all she did was rave about how different and speci...more
JD
I honestly didn't like this one all that much. The idea was great. There aren't many books where the heroine dies from a heart defect in the first chapter and then comes back with the ability to see dead people. The gay best friend was great. He was charming, his boyfriend was very real feeling and sweet. The book however is really really slow. There is too much fluff in between the scenes that really matter and scenes that really have no point. I think the heroine is a spunky girl but for some...more
Sara
Disappointing. I was sucked in, thinking it would be an interesting paranormal read, but it turned out to be little more than a flimsy romance novel (not even a very good one, at that). While more
interesting than "Bled Dry" with more character development, I still felt the characters were shallow pictures of people without depth. The story line of her sister never developed into anything. The relationship was unrealistic, underdeveloped, and boring. The
Voodoo line was interesting and a bit sca...more
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A Southern girl with an overactive imagination, Terri Garey is the RITA© award winning author of six novels, two series, and various novellas. Her devilishly delicious tales from the dark side have been described as "sweet yet smouldering" by Publishers Weekly, and "sultry and upbeat" by Library Journal. Despite her choice of spooky subject matter, Terri prefers to avoid graveyards, especially on...more
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