Saturday, September 15, 2012

Review: The Medium

 Title - The Medium
Author - C.J. Archer
Series or Standalone - Book 1 in the Emily Chambers Spirit Medium Trilogy
Genre - Paranormal
Publication - July 2nd 2012
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Rating 5 out of 5

Synopsis

Seventeen year-old spirit medium Emily Chambers has a problem. Actually, she has several. As if seeing dead people isn't a big enough social disadvantage, she also has to contend with an escaped demon and a handsome ghost with a secret past. And then there's the question of her parentage. Being born an entire year after her father's death (yes, a year) and without the pale skin of other respectable English ladies, Emily is as much a mystery as the dead boy assigned to her.

Jacob Beaufort's spirit has been unable to crossover since his death. It might have something to do with the fact he was murdered. Or it might not. All he knows is, he has been assigned by the Otherworld's administrators to a girl named Emily. A girl who can see and touch him. A girl who released a shape-shifting demon into the mortal realm. Together they must send the demon back before it wreaks havoc on London. It should be a simple assignment, but they soon learn there's nothing simple when a live girl and a dead boy fall in love.


Opening Paragraph Teaser

Whoever said dead men don't tell lies had never met Barnaby Wiggam's ghost. The fat, bulbous-nosed spirit fading in and out beside me like a faulty gas lamp clearly thought he was dealing with a fool. I may only be seventeen but I'm not naïve. I know when someone is lying—being dead didn't alter the tell-tale signs. Mr. Wiggam didn't quite meet my eyes, or those of his widow and her guests—none of whom could see him anyway—and he fidgeted with his crisp white silk necktie as if it strangled him. It hadn't—he'd died of an apoplexy.

Review

Emily Chambers is a 17 year old medium living with her older sister after her mother has passed away.  Emily doesn't know who her father is because he passed a way a whole year before she was born and no one else knows who her father is either. Emily and her sister make a living by holding seances because Emily can speak to the dead. She is very good at helping the dead move on from the waiting room where they go when they die.  However not everyone wants to move on they decide to stay and haunt people as well but she does her best. 

Accidentally Emily and her sister Celia release a shape shifting demon into the moral world where it starts to kill to feed. A handsome ghost Jacob Beaufort show's up at her door, he was sent by the Otherworld's administrators to help Emily track down the Shape shifting demon before it can wreak havok on the city of London. The closer the pair get the more they find themselves falling in love. 

I won this book off of Librarythings in a giveaway and I'm very glad I did because it introduced me to C.J. Archer as a writer. I love Emily she's different but she uses it to her advantage, she's a strong character who takes matters into her own hands. I love the relationship between Emily and Jacob, they have such great chemistry plus it's kinda fitting that a medium would be in love with a ghost. I feel the characters are very well written you can easily connect with them. I really enjoyed the mystery aspects it kept me guessing and I love the twists and turns that go along with a good mystery. Their are a few humors spots that involve the Wiggams that had me giggling which I found refreshing. I had a hard time putting this one down, I even skipped going to the movies last night because I wanted to know what was going to happen, and I can't wait for the next one in the series. This book introduced me to C.J. Archer but I found her writing entertaining and captivating, and I will be checking out her other books because this one was so great. 

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