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5.0 out of 5 stars
Hot and sexy book, October 9, 2007
This review is from: Double Dating with the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
Double Dating With The Dead by Karen Kelley is an out of this world hot, sexy and fun read.
Psychic Selena James is tricked by her well-meaning mother into spending two weeks with skeptical writer Trent Sanders. Trent does not believe in ghosts and knows Selena James has to be running some kind of con.
Selena has enough problems with her mother's interference now she has two sex-obsessed ghosts to deal with at the haunted Garvey Hotel. Trying to deal with Dixie and Wesley is bad enough but Selena finds herself wildly attracted to Trent.
Trent thinks this will be a breeze. All he has to do is catch Selena pulling a fast one. But though he tries to explain the odd goings on he can't explain this over the top attraction to Selena.
Double Dating With The Dead is a laugh out loud book. The wit and charm of the characters make this book a treat. The chemistry between Selena and Trent is smoking hot and delicious. A Karen Kelley book is a feel good read.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Spicy Hot Fun Read, August 29, 2007
This review is from: Double Dating with the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
Karen's latest read involves ghosts, a psychic and a skeptic. What a fun, hot read something that Karen does well, and is only enhanced in this book.
Trent Sanders is a writer, who publicly on TV states that he thinks Selena James, a well known psychic is delusional and a fraud. Now because of a public challenge in the paper after the show he finds that he must spend two weeks with Selena in the hotel that is known as the Legend of Garvoy County. The hotel is a legend yes, but ghosts noway! Besides that no one can talk to ghosts since there are no such thing. Well he was going to show Selena up for the fraud that she is. So what if it ruins her, people like her deserve to get their just dues.
Selena has nothing to prove to anyone especially Trent who is such a skeptic, but she will make a believer out of him, wait and see. Mix in a couple of ghosts that like to play games and have fun but only show themselves to Selena. Then we have her eccentric meddling family who cause their own brand of trouble.
Ghosts when angered want revenge. A little ghost dust blown around makes for erotic dreams, but are they really dreams? Trent finds Selena feisty, mean- mouthed and sexy as the devil. She sure is capable of turning him every which way. On the other side of the enemy camp, Selena is so aggravated by Trent but if that is true why does she fluctuate between wanting to have hot, steamy sex with him one minute and killing him the next.
The reader is taken on a fun, hot, adventurous ride with this well rounded paranormal read. At what point does Trent realize that he doesn't want to hurt Selena and prove her a fraud? Can Trent and Selena get past their differences to see what is in front of them? Do we have more than two ghosts at work here? All the answers are between the pages and so much more. I highly recommend this book and have to compliment Karen on another well done story. Looking forward to more adventures from this writer.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Very hard to get through this one, January 20, 2009
This review is from: Double Dating with the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
The premise for this story was interesting; it's what had me picking it up. I had not read any other Karen Kelley books.
At first, this book was ok, the characters were interesting and the minor charaters quirky enough for me to like them. Selena has her fan club with her family and Trent has his brother. Included in this mix are the two ghosts that haunt the hotel they are staying in for two weeks. I kept reading, hoping that the story would suddenly engulf me and take off. Unfortunately, that never happened. I continued reading though I found my concentration slipping and having to re-read sentences.
Basically, the story just remained ok. I found the sexual tension between Selena and Trent lukewarm, as if being thrown together automatically meant they should start sleeping together. And I figured out the ending ghost almost from the beginning, so no surprise there.
I would suggest either buying this used or borrowing it from the library. I actually got mine from a bookstore going out of buisness.
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