She Smells the Dead (Spirit Guide, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Aug 12, 2010 Brandi ;) rated it it was amazing

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She Smells the Dead by E. J. Stevens

5 STARS

I LOVED this book. Those of you who know me, know I am a Ghost-Story-Whore (Ghost related books are my favorite type of paranormal story and I consume them with greed and happiness, especially when the book is a good one). This was a GREAT one! The story was original, not something that has been done over and over and over again. Big plus for me.
Yuki, the main character, can smell the dead. No, this doesn't mean she literally smells rotting corpses, sh She Smells the Dead by E. J. Stevens

5 STARS

I LOVED this book. Those of you who know me, know I am a Ghost-Story-Whore (Ghost related books are my favorite type of paranormal story and I consume them with greed and happiness, especially when the book is a good one). This was a GREAT one! The story was original, not something that has been done over and over and over again. Big plus for me.
Yuki, the main character, can smell the dead. No, this doesn't mean she literally smells rotting corpses, she gets a smell impression from the deceased, aka ghost. So instead of being able to see dead people or be able to talk to them, she gets a smell impression when they are around. In this book the ghost that is haunting her is giving her the smell of apple cider vinegar. With this smell she does her research to find out who it could be and what she can do to help them take care of what ever unfinished business they had left in our world and then move on.
So, I'm totally expecting the whole book to just be about Yuki finding out who the ghost is and of course some mystery she has to help solve for the ghost to move on. WRONG!! I was sooo suprised and happy to get not only an extra twist in the story but also a sweet romance to boot! Yippee!! What was so good about this romance, after all they are in almost every book I read, I got to watch it develope from a simple friendship to a "Why is he looking at me like he likes me more than a friend and why am I liking it, wait, what? I like it? I do! OMG, I think I like him!" discovery of love. It was adorable, but not the kind of adorable that makes you sick, just real.
I loved how Yuki talked to herself and uses the full name of her friend. In the beginning her friend Calvin gives her a beetle plushie as a joke. To herself she thinks "You suck Calvin Miller. You suck times ten." She does this through out the book and I won't spoil anything so I won't give away any more cause you really should read this book. I enjoyed it so much I even broke my rule of not reading series books back to back. I jumped into the second one immediately and I'll tell you now, it is just as good. Actually a little better since we have the back story established and can focus on the lives of the characters and what ghostly things are going on, and the little twist.
So if you haven't read this one yet, get to it! I finally got to it because I decided to clean out my TBR closet (it is not a TBR shelf, it is a TBR closet, have you seen the size of that thing!) by reading books that have been in there the longest and I can not believe I put this in there and let it get buried for as long as it did! ...more

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