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Once Dead, Twice Shy - Community Reviews back

by Kim Harrison
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catherinehaines
catherinehaines rated it 15 years ago
Madison Avery, the main character of Once Dead, Twice Shy, first appears in the anthology Prom Nights from Hell, in a short story entitled Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper. In it, Madison loses her life thanks to a dark reaper, but manages to get her own back by stealing his amulet. Although still d...
StephB
StephB rated it 15 years ago
As a big fan of Kim Harrison's Hollow/Rachel Morgan series, I was hoping I would enjoy her new YA series. Kim Harrison goes into SO much detail in her other series that I was completely surprised by the lack of detail in this one. The main character is dead, but you don't learn about how that occu...
No More Booklikes, BYE
No More Booklikes, BYE rated it 15 years ago
ngels dark and light fight over a teen girl and the souls of humans. A teen girl is dead but still has a physical body. She has to fight to save herself and those she loves. She ends up being in more trouble than she thought. It really is a teen book with teenager issues, I found it hard to relate t...
Olivia's Books, Quotes and Opinions
Olivia's Books, Quotes and Opinions rated it 15 years ago
A satisfactory angel / soul-reaper / paranormal teenage story ... sporting a fantastically cute side-character: Tiny guardian angel Grace (G.R.A.C.E.S, Guardian, Reaper-Augmented Cherub, Extinction Security, 1-70-6). So sweet and tongue-in-cheek and always making up annoying Limmericks fitting the c...
Miss Clark
Miss Clark rated it 16 years ago
Um, not a huge fan. Mostly because the whole mythos, the system of angels, reapers (light and dark), and timekeepers, seemed very poorly explained. Harrison failed to sell me the idea throughout and at the end nothing has really been resolved. I don't care particularly that this is the start to a se...
Intensely Focused
Intensely Focused rated it 16 years ago
If you haven't read Kim Harrison's short story in Prom Nights from Hell I urge you to do so before starting this book. The story in Prom Nights will give you the background you need to understand what's going. Harrison eventually doles out the necessary information, but she takes her sweet time and ...
ChicaReader
ChicaReader rated it 16 years ago
In this fast-paced novel of the cosmic world being balanced between light and dark, Madison Avery has become a pawn in the grand scheme of things--and she doesn't know how big a pawn she is. Barnabus, her light-reaper "teacher" skips out for less than forty-eight hours with his boss, and that's all ...
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