By Suzy Cox
HarperTeen, 384 pages
18th September, 2012
Source: Publisher, via Edelweiss
Pop quiz: What would you do if you had to solve your own murder to get anywhere in death?
Maybe if I hadn't slept through my alarm, slammed into Kristin--my high school's reigning mean
girl--or stepped in a puddle, destroying my mom's new suede DVF boots (which I borrowed without asking), I wouldn't have been in the wrong place at the wrong time, and I wouldn't have been pushed in front of that arriving train. But I did, and I was.
When I came to, I was informed by a group of girls that I'm dead. And that because I died under mysterious circumstances, I can't pass straight over to the Other Side. But at least I'm not alone. Meet the Dead Girls Detective Agency: Nancy, Lorna, and Tess--not to mention Edison, the really cute if slightly hostile dead boy. Apparently, the only way out of this limbo is to figure out who killed me, or I'll have to spend eternity playing Nancy Drew. Considering I was fairly invisible in life, who could hate me enough to want me dead? And what if my murderer is someone I never would have suspected?
Maybe if I hadn't slept through my alarm, slammed into Kristin--my high school's reigning mean
girl--or stepped in a puddle, destroying my mom's new suede DVF boots (which I borrowed without asking), I wouldn't have been in the wrong place at the wrong time, and I wouldn't have been pushed in front of that arriving train. But I did, and I was.
When I came to, I was informed by a group of girls that I'm dead. And that because I died under mysterious circumstances, I can't pass straight over to the Other Side. But at least I'm not alone. Meet the Dead Girls Detective Agency: Nancy, Lorna, and Tess--not to mention Edison, the really cute if slightly hostile dead boy. Apparently, the only way out of this limbo is to figure out who killed me, or I'll have to spend eternity playing Nancy Drew. Considering I was fairly invisible in life, who could hate me enough to want me dead? And what if my murderer is someone I never would have suspected?
- Goodreads.com description
Two words: FREAKING. AWESOME.
TOTALLY.
Charlotte was taking the F train home from school(there was a lot of pushing through the crowd to get in the train involved) and the next thing she knows, she turned up dead in a ghost hotel for teenagers(there's one for adult ghosts but they never went there). Everybody thought her death was accidental but if so, she wouldn't turn up dead in the Attesa Hotel. And so, the Detective Dead Girls Agency which are Nancy, Lorna, and not-so-helpful Tess and Charlotte went out to find out who's Charlotte's murderer and get her the Key to open the Big Red Door to go to The Other Side.
Nancy, in all Her Royal Geekiness is, of course, the head of The Detective Dead Girls Agency. Lorna, was this dead fashionista, Tess played the bitchy dead girl and Charlotte, Charlotte alive or dead was still the same except of course, dead. When she was alive, she has a perfect boyfriend named David, a best friend named Ali and that's pretty much it. She wasn't a socialist but she's definitely not a total recluse. And of course, let's not forget the hot, dark and brooding and trouble, Edison.
It was SO EASY to get hooked on The Dead Girls Detective Agency from the very start. Suzy Cox did a perfect job in capturing a teenage's voice. It was also light and funny from the very start. TDGDA has a twist of contemporary in its paranormal scenery. It's also very refreshing to read a standalone paranormal book rather than a series one. If I have to read one more dystopian, sci-fi or paranormal book that will get me craving for the next one that's not coming out in like, another year, I feel like tearing my hair off my head. -.-
The journey in finding Charlotte's murderer is entertaining in itself. Nancy and Lorna's amateur detective skill got me laughing from time to time. With Edison in Charlotte's way, Charlotte sometimes went from Nancy's rule follower style and Edison's rule breaker style.
Light, funny and entertaining, The Dead Girls Detective Agency will captivate you from the beginning of the book until the end. A definite page turner! And one that I won't forget soon! :D
Fara
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