Saturday, June 5, 2021

Beyond Dead by Jordaina Sydney Robinson

Rating: WARTY!

The blurb spouts mindlessly, "New to the afterlife, Bridget ends up in hot water when a dead ghost is found in her locker." A dead ghost? Seriously? What, the afterlife has an afterlife? Where do ghosts go when they die? How do they even die if they're dead already? There might even have been a story there, but this sure as hell ain't it! This strikes me as one of those dumbass ideas that is worthy of a Saturday morning cartoon - where the story has a patina of difference to it, but really it's the same old thing and the patina is the only "difference." Yeah, we're all ghosts, but otherwise everything is exactly the same as if we were alive - so what's the fucking point, honestly?

The blurb claims that this is an "inventive supernatural mystery that's first in a series!" of course it is, because why do the work of writing a host of original nvoels when youc an retread the friost one into a series of sameness? I'll pass. No thanks. No more dumb-ass series.