 | Title: Working Stiff
 Sexual Content: Kissing; references to sex, necrophilia, and sexual assault. Rating:
Near Perfect - Buy two copies: one for you and one for a friend. |
Description
A brand new adventure from the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Rachel Caine, author of the Morganville Vampires and Weather Warden series ...
Bryn Davis is new on the job as a funeral director, but even she knows that once you’re dead, you ought to stay that way. But Fairview Mortuary has a hidden backroom business: reviving the dead for profit, at extortionate rates.
Finding out may cost Bryn more than her life ... it may just take away her death, too.
Review
From page one, WORKING STIFF was a wonderful surprise. I did not expect to fall in love with the heroine so quickly; Bryn's careful, quiet personality is so winning and fierce I was captivated. She has a life and a job history prior to working at the funeral home, and that made her all the more human and interesting. This rapport with Bryn is the gateway into her world, and gives emotional heft to the rest of the story.
And oh, what a story. So many familiar themes of immortality, loss and vulnerability are woven into this most delicate balancing act of rebirth. WORKING STIFF felt more like vampirism from a foot-soldier's perspective than a zombie story; Bryn's continued existence relies on an organization that is rotten to it's core. Anyone who has ever wondered if they could survive the collapse of society without access to life saving prescriptions will relate to this book, Bryn has a daily death sentence hovering over her. And yet, even as she lives, she's caught in the perfect stasis that is immortality. No going forward, but the fear of falling back into death and darkness hanging over every moment... her emotional journey is both heart-wrenching and riveting.
Bryn and her world were so interesting to me, it was easy for friendships and love interest to get lost in the shuffle. They were there, they were sweet and sexy and dangerous by turns, but I was more fascinated watching Bryn adapt to the changes in her life than anything else. As I close WORKING STIFF, I'm still emotionally invested enough to worry about these characters. At odd moments I find myself planning strategies to keep Bryn safe, and I can’t wait for Book Two to set my mind at ease.
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I wasn't nearly as fond of this book. I thought it was rather slow, depressing, and, apart from the zombie science, very unbelievable.
ReplyDeleteThis one based on blurb just doesn't appeal to me...
ReplyDeleteI loved this one so much, and you loved WHITE TRASH ZOMBIE, I'm curious to see how I react to it now. We may be on opposite ends of the zombie continuum...
ReplyDeleteWell get to reading and let me know :)
ReplyDeleteI was very curious about this book ! Thanks for the review.
ReplyDeleteI'm about a third of the way through it and I'm enjoying it. It is a -bit- depressing. But it's about a girl who start working at a funeral home. It's not gonna be puppies and sunshine.
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