Synopsis:

On the morning before her 67th death, it is business as usual for Jesse Sullivan: meet with the mortician, counsel soon-to-be-dead clients, and have coffee while reading the latest regeneration theory. Jesse dies for a living, literally. As a Necronite, she is one of the population’s rare 2% who can serve as a death replacement agent, dying so others don’t have to. Although each death is different, the result is the same: a life is saved, and Jesse resurrects days later with sore muscles, new scars, and another hole in her memory.

But when Jesse is murdered and becomes the sole suspect in a federal investigation, more than her freedom and sanity are at stake. She must catch the killer herself—or die trying.

My thoughts:

I learned about this book from a good friend and it sounded rather unique, so I decided to give it a try. And it was a pretty unique concept. This is so not your traditional zombie book and it was kind of refreshing. While I love “eat your face off” zombie books, this was great in completely different way. Jesse is a Necronite (zombie) who can die over and over again and be fine, for a time anyways. She can take place of someone that is dying (except Illnesses) and die instead for them. To predict their deaths “mediums” are used. Of course with that come haters, mainly the church is really against it and goes to good length to try to prevent that from happening. With that we get pretty good action and nasty people being nasty and killing others and necronites. Anyways, I really enjoyed this book and characters a lot, it was unique, characters were likeable and easy to follow. Well most of the times. It sure kept me tied to the book and was hard to put down. It was funny, suspenseful, lots of twist and turns and also plenty of action. Romance is also a factor, though I was a bit confused with this part. I think it has a lot to do with that Jesse herself is a bit confused when it comes to love and or who to love. Overall Jesse can be a bit confusing, she is an odd ball for sure, from mixed matched shoes to weird other really weird things it is never really clear what she will do next. I think that was part of the book, maybe. That maybe she has “died’ to many times or so. No idea and I hope that will be better explained in future books. I also would have liked to know more about how necronites work. Are they dead, dead or do they comes back to live?! They seem to be eating and drinking normal foods but on the other hand they have rigor mortis to deal with for a while and such. So that I would have liked to be explained a bit better and more detail. Speaking of details, sometimes things are a bit over described and went a bit too much in, but not to the point that is didn’t want to read it more. Another thing was that there were a lot of typos and grammar errors in the e-book I got from amazon and I think that could use a newer version with those things fixed. Overall, I thought it was a good and interesting book and I will read future books to see what will happen next. I rate this book at 3 ★

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Written by: Kory M. Shrum

Narrated by: Hollie Jackson

Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins 

Series: Jesse Sullivan, Book 1

Unabridged Audiobook

Release Date:09-16-14

Publisher: Timberlane Press

Format Listened to: Audible Download

On the morning before her 67th death, it is business as usual for Jesse Sullivan: meet with the mortician, counsel soon-to-be-dead clients, and have coffee while reading the latest regeneration theory. Jesse dies for a living, literally. As a Necronite, she is one of the population's rare 2% who can serve as a death replacement agent, dying so others don't have to. Although each death is different, the result is the same: a life is saved, and Jesse resurrects days later with sore muscles, new scars, and another hole in her memory. But when Jesse is murdered and becomes the sole suspect in a federal investigation, more than her freedom and sanity are at stake. She must catch the killer herself - or die trying.

I liked the world this story is set in, I read a lot and it is something new that I have not read/listened to before.  This book does start out slow (or at least for me it was) and it took a bit before I really liked or cared about any of the characters.  It was probably at about 50-60% that it finally pulled me in and kept me at the edge of my seat waiting to see what would happen next.  Jesse was eventually very likeable, her snarky sarcastic personality grew on me.  I have to say I really liked Lane and Ally and the other characters.  They were all interesting without taking away from the main characters.  I can’t wait to see where the story goes next and what twists and turns we are in for.

While her voice seems familiar Hollie Jackson is a new to me narrator.  She did a great job on the voices and I could easily differentiate all the characters.   I look forward to listening to other books that she has narrated

This is going to be an odd review. I didn't rate the book because I didn't finish, but I'll get to that in a minute. 

The concept of this book is amazing. Really. A scientific look at how real life zombies could come about and how the government might use them to their advantage. Shrum creates vivid believable characters. I loved Jesse's personality from the very beginning.

There's a mystery to be solved, bad guys to avoid, and real death to avoid. Which is saying a lot for someone who dies over and over for a living. 

You're probably wondering by now why I stopped reading when I was completely into the story. I have an issue with language sometimes and although I'll let it ride for a while, it got to the point where it bugged me. The f-bomb is one of the words I really hate.

This story is awesome and if language doesn't bother you I highly recommend it. The imagination, characterization and world building are amazing. 

Yippee I'm a winner. I can't wait to check it out