A review by skateanddonate
The Night Is Alive by Heather Graham
3.0
The story was good and kept me picking it back up, but the writing was a bit off to me. It was hard to figure out who the main character was. I mean it started with her and ended with her, but he did all the mystery solving. Then there were those scenes the editing was just out of whack.
For example, both partners are in the morgue talking to the mortician. She has to leave to take someone home and he is asking questions of the mortician. The four or five questions later he ask her something. Pulled me right out of the book thinking when did she get back. Then a few pages later it cuts to her taking the other guy home and that ends with explaining she took guy home then returned to the lab and they asked their questions. It was a weird structure that was repeated a couple times.
I liked that they saw ghosts and got help from ghosts. I mean that is so cool a FBI team that can talk to the dead. However, after finishing it feels a bit deus ex media, because the only thing the ghosts really do is give answers.
For example, both partners are in the morgue talking to the mortician. She has to leave to take someone home and he is asking questions of the mortician. The four or five questions later he ask her something. Pulled me right out of the book thinking when did she get back. Then a few pages later it cuts to her taking the other guy home and that ends with explaining she took guy home then returned to the lab and they asked their questions. It was a weird structure that was repeated a couple times.
I liked that they saw ghosts and got help from ghosts. I mean that is so cool a FBI team that can talk to the dead. However, after finishing it feels a bit deus ex media, because the only thing the ghosts really do is give answers.