Review: Kick by John L Monk

From Goodreads:
Dan Jenkins returns from death for a chance to live again. The vacated bodies of killers are his rides.

Before he's kicked out, he'll need to stop his host from hurting anyone else. It's one of the rules if he wants more rides. More rides means more movies and fishing trips, and more of those little apple pies they sell at gas stations and convenience stores, because they're just that good.

For a dead guy, it's a pretty good gig...until someone changes the rules.




My Thoughts :
I picked this up through Bookbub, and immediately became intrigued by it. Most of my Bookbub books end up getting lost in the abyss of books on my kindle, but the first chapter really grabbed my attention. So, I kept reading.

Told through Dan's perspective, we spend a lot of time in his head with just him. He landed in his body-hopping gig after he killed himself in college, as a kind of penance I guess. Although a little lost, he's a genuinely nice guy who enjoys his time living in truly evil people's bodies until he has to kill them or get them arrested before they kick him out.

You watch Dan go through a pretty significant learning experience when he lands in Nate's body. While the people you see him in before are truly big bad guys, Nate's not. This is confusing for Dan, since that's not his usual M.O. But the bad guys are around Dan. I don't want to give out spoilers, but seriously, I got annoyed when he didn't notice right away who the real baddie was.

I seriously loved this book. Well written, great twists and turns and an interesting main character to boot. I loved watching him learn and grow, and seeing how everything fell into place.

I highly recommend this book.

Also, for some reason this reminded me of How To Date Dead Guys. I think people who like either series would like the other too.