Okay, I have to confess. I didn't really read this book; it was more skimming/speed reading. This is the fourth book in Charlaine Harris's Harper Connelly series. I stumbled across Charlaine Harris randomly, two summers ago, and her Sookie Stackhouse series. [This was before it was made into True Blood on HBO.] I was immediately drawn in and still love the series! So I decided to read one of her other series last summer and picked this one.
It's an interesting concept - Harper was struck by lightning and now gets certain vibes/messages from corpses. I like it. I zipped through the first three and enjoyed them...but not as much as Sookie. Which isn't really a fair comparison, because they are completely different series and concepts. Anyway, Grave Secret came out in hardback, and while I wanted to read it I didn't want to spend the money to buy it in hardback. So...a bit of a confession here...I decided to speed read it in various bookstores. That's right. Part of it in Barnes & Noble and part of it in Borders.
What I liked about this book is that it dealt more with her family and her missing sister, which has been a focus of the series since the start. It was interesting to see her with family around; other than Tolliver, she's generally been on her own for the first three books. I like that it treated the family rapports with a certain complexity. As for the mystery of the book, I really didn't figure it out and was pretty shocked at the end! Which is always a sign of a good book. Maybe there were clues that I missed because I was reading/skimming it so quickly. Overall I enjoyed it, though, and if you've read the first three then this is worth reading as well. I wouldn't rush out and buy it, but it's a good library book.
I don't know if this closes out the series or not; it certainly felt like good closure at the end of the book. If it does end now, then this was a good ending book for it.
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