Review: Sex and the Single Ghost
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 |
Being an avid fan of Fantasy/Paranormal chick lit, I was eager to read this book. It’s a story about a girl named Claire who died nine years ago. For the past near decade she has sat in “Purgatory”, which is sort of like a version of the Afterlife, or Heaven.
Every nine years, souls in the Afterlife get to go back down to earth in their original physical body for one night - on Halloween. If in that time the person manages to touch a human’s soul, they are allowed to stay on earth for nine days and nights.
Claire is desperate to get down to earth because she is dying to have sex. Yes, that’s right - apparently in the Afterlife, there is no sex, no eating chocolate, no fun. (Who knew the Afterlife would be full of horny ghosts??) So upon her trip back to earth, she tries to track down the one man that she has desperately wanted to sleep with for years.
Little does she know that he is also “dead”, too.. and returning to Earth as a ghost.
This was a good read overall, but not spectacular. The book paints the most depressing picture of the Afterlife, for one. Imagine sitting in a Heaven, waiting to go back to Earth to have sex. And speaking of sex, this book is bursting with it. There are no less than 5 vivid scenes where the two characters go at it in great detail.
The sideplot of Claire trying to track down how and why she died was interesting. However, the ending of the novel was ridiculous and cheesy.
Overall, I’d give this book a whirl if you are into ghosts having a naughty good time.
Rian’s rating: 4/5 stars