Grim and Bear It

Love Me Dead Series, Book 2

By: Heather Novak

Narrated by: Raquel Beattie, Alexander Cendese

Poppy's skull over heels in love, and not even death can stop her....

Poppy Grim dreams of starring in a real-life rom-com. Instead, she's an overworked, lonely grim reaper with chronic motion sickness from ferrying souls to the afterlife. She adheres to all the reaper handbook rules except one—she regularly visits the love she lost twelve years ago when she passed. She's not worried—humans can only see her when they are about to die, after all—until Jake looks up and says her name.

Supernatural Investigator Jake Robinson wants to leave active duty because of past on-the-job injuries, but he's determined to finish solving the most important case of his career first. His plans sink like the Titanic—his ghost roommate's favorite movie—when he sees Poppy.

With death looming, they both risk everything—including their hearts—and work together to keep Jake alive while he stops the people threatening his family. But love is a losing game when the punishment for a reaper-human relationship is permanent removal from existence.

Contains mature themes.

©2022 Heather Novak (P)2022 Tantor

Ok

Definitely not as good as the 1st book. A little confusing at times, different narrators took some getting used to. Characters were ok, story was decent. I hope book 3 is more along the lines of book 1.

Great romance, nonsensical UF and mystery

I loved the second chance romance between Jake and Poppy, even if all the other things were confusing. The mystery had something to do with creating some sort of transformation serum, but I couldn’t follow the rhyme or reason behind the operation … or the targeting of Jake.

The rules for being a Grim Reaper seemed completely arbitrary. For example, Poppy died and became a Reaper at 16, and was stuck in the clothes she died in, yet her body still aged. Why could she change her age but not her clothes? Humans could choose to join their Reaper girlfriends or boyfriends, yet Poppy wasn’t given that option with Jake? And why all the rules about keeping Reapers secret, even from the rest of the supernatural community? I had a lot of questions and that left me wanting on the urban fantasy side.