Grave Sight (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 1)

Okay I was fooled into getting this book by a person I know and it wasnt what I expected. For people who have read her other series please do not think that this book follows the sames lines or even the humor in this series. If you like mystery with a touch of suspense than this for you. Harper has powers that allows her to see death seeing as she was hit by lightening when she was younger. All in all it has good characters and a solid plot but for those as I said looking for another Sookie go elsewhere this series is for the mystery at heart readers.

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The books that Charlain Harris writes have been ending up on my keeper shelf for years. This new book seems to be keeping right up with her older series for entertainment value, so if you like your mysteries with a bit of paranormal spice, this one will fit right in. I enjoyed it very much and will be looking for more in the series.

I'm probably only one of two people in the world who isn't a fan of the Sookie Stackhouse series *g* but I was definitely looking forward to reading Charlaine Harris's GRAVE SIGHT. I wasn't disappointed--I think this book is an excellent start to a new series.

Harper and her brother, Tolliver, are both interesting and well-developed characters with the requisite flaws to keep them entertaining. When Harper was a teen-ager, she was struck by lightning--and given an extraordinary gift in the form of the ability to find dead bodies, and relive their last moments of life (i.e. tell how they died). She travels around the country with her brother as her assistant/bodyguard/accountant, traveling to aid whoever has hired her to find the body of a loved one or determine if they met with foul play.

As they travel to the town of Sarne, the bodies start piling up, Harper and Tolliver are suddenly suspects in a murder, and the suspect list just keeps growing and growing. The outcome was definitely, at least to me, unexpected, and I thoroughly enjoyed this beginning of Ms. Harris's new series.

The only small problem I had with the book was it's verrrrry slow-moving pace. I felt like the whole book could have been told in about 100 less pages, but it might just be that I was feeling in a hurry. =)

Overall, GRAVE SIGHT was a dark, brooding, suspenseful read--just the kind I like!

Harper Cornell has an unusual gift. Corpses 'speak' to her and tell her how they died. Traveling the country with her best friend, stepbrother Tolliver, she uses her gift to make money.

Initially I didn't like Harper. The author almost went too far to make sure we feel sorry for her: she was struck by lightning as a child, she has several physical ailments, her parents drank, her mother tried to pimp her out when she was a teenager, the world doesn't like her, doesn't understand her, and believes she is a kook, she has an abducted sibling, her sisters hate her, she had trouble in highschool, etc. Its almost a little much. But if you can ignore this obvious play to get us to feel sorry for her, I actually began to like this book. Harper is a tough, determined character. She has none of Sookie's airiness and I prefer it that way.

Parts of the story were not to my liking, though: Such as: I found Tolliver to be a bit of an idiot. I felt he was mooching off of Harper, even though we hear every five minutes how much harper *needs* him. I felt at points the relationship was co-dependant and unhealthy. Also, I didn't find Tolliver (long hair and moustache) to be that sexy. I kept imaging this tall greasy guy with black hair, moustache and bad skin. Yuk.

Overall, an enjoyable read, but I wouldn't call this a romance or a 'humorous' book. Its pretty dark even if its not explicit. 4 stars.