A Dirty Job
Series: Grim Reaper #1
Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal
Original Publication date: March 2016
Book Description (from Good Reads): Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.
It's a dirty job, but hey! Somebody's got to do it.
Thoughts:
Mixed feelings.
It has a very interesting premise. The fact that Death is a job people get through situations that almost feel aleatory. People do not reap souls, they go and collect them after the person has died, Death merchants do not arrange the demise of the person they simply take care of the souls.
There are mentions of old enemies, of the balance of good and bad as most fantasy stories, but in a not so common battle description.
It has a lot of comedy thrown in, but it had a heavy dose of sexual comments and situations that felt totally unnecessary.
Don't know how much to mention about it.
It mentions Charlie is a beta male, too much he comes off as a desperate man who is looking for a woman desperately. It is bearable, initially. But then again he takes too much notice of a woman's sexual attributes, even on enemies, on entities that are trying to kill him, and it just so happens that most women Charlie comes in contact with just happens to have super exaggerated curves and other sexual attributes. Also Charlie is not the only one who notices that but there his employee is sexually frustrated who only cares about sexualizing women be it personal contact or virtual and it is only too clear he does not care about them as people but only as a release for his sexual desire.
The sexual frustration mentioned here takes too much attention, it is not only mentioned in passing on the background. It was annoying.
Also there were several sex scenes that did not make sense:
*Sexual encounter suggested from one of the few female characters for no other reason than, Charlie looks like he "needs" it.
*Exchanging sex for no other reason than a male needs it, why? Because he has been doing something wrong all because a voluptuous woman is coming to the store and taking advantage of his neediness.
*Possible the end of the world is coming, then they decide to have sex! Really?
The plot was good, the storyline was promising but the execution was not the best one.
There were plot points that you saw coming long before they arrived but still did not make it awful.
Like the not serious way the story was told but the writing style was not my favorite, my overall issue was the way sexual content was weaved into the story.
Maybe this is a case of it's not for me.
I had given this initially 2 stars, might change it to 2.75 or something but not sure yet.
This was used to accomplish the challenge:
*Supernatural-a-thon. Read a book featuring death.
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