Seventeen-year-old spirit medium Emily Chambers has a problem. Actually, she has several. As if seeing dead people isn’t a big enough social disadvantage, she also has to contend with an escaped demon and a handsome ghost with a secret past. And then there’s the question of her parentage. Being born an entire year after her father’s death (yes, a year) and without the pale skin of other respectable English ladies, Emily is as much a mystery as the dead boy assigned to her. Jacob Beaufort’s spirit has been unable to crossover since his death. It might have something to do with the fact he was murdered. Or it might not. All he knows is, he has been assigned by the Otherworld’s administrators to a girl named Emily. A girl who can see and touch him. A girl who released a shape-shifting demon into the mortal realm. Together they must send the demon back before it wreaks havoc on London. It should be a simple assignment, but they soon learn there’s nothing simple when a live girl and a dead boy fall in love.
I have been ripped off!!! I enjoyed this story but prefer to have a conclusion . I don’t plan on reading the rest of the series.
Incomplete story The premise was interesting (think Ghost Whisperer set in early London) with a 17-year-old who can see ghosts. There could have been a number of good stories about how she and her older sister (who cannot see ghosts but arranges the seances) work with the living and the dead.Â
Not a Complete Book Although I enjoyed the writing and the story, I felt deceived with the purchase of this “free” book. Simply put, this is just the first third of a complete story. In order to see a resolution to any of the issues/questions raised in this book, you must purchase 2 more books. Although I certainly enjoy a good series, I do expect each book in that series to be a complete story by itself. This series fails that requirement. Instead it is merely one rather long book split into three…