What would you do if you woke up dead? Gabriella remembers only parts of dying. She knows when she wakes up in a casket that she didn’t survive the crash. But being dead doesn’t mean she can’t enjoy the afterlife. Antonio is mysterious, lonely, and charming. Fortunately, he’s dead too. With only two days before the end of the Day of the Dead festival, they have to figure out how to catch a … out how to catch a murder, avoid the Grim Reaper, and get their Spirits to the Other Side before the Gate – between the living world and the realm of the dead – closes for another year.
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In this book we get to meet Gabriella Rosa Garcia Harris, a young vibrant girl who was just beginning her life. She attends a party with her friends and after the party on the way home is in a motor vehicle accident. Death. So final. Waking up in her casket, “feeling” dead. Her father whom she has never known is at her grave talking to her. She sees his sadness. Someone is speaking with her and she turns to see a young man. Isn’t it funny that death brought her love? Odd right. Maybe when we die, it’s not nothing, maybe just maybe there is more, God I hope. Anyway, I loved this book. I wanted more and can’t wait to read the next. I love that they can touch each other, they can hold each other. I love this idea so much, better than never being able to hold someone in the afterlife seems ……sad.
Rating: 4.3/5
Starting with a bang, the book dived into the horror of the night, a recurrence of the dreadful time of death.
Honesty, I entered this book without much knowledge of the plot and I was not disappointed. In just 30 pages, it was packed so much detail and thrill that I just couldn’t put down.
It’s written so carefully, each detail mentioned to give you the chills. I
Also, I love the cover!
I got a free copy and I’m glad I did. It was worth my time!
Dead Girls Don’t Dance by H.G. Lynch is an amazing story to read. I loved reading this amazing story very much, it has amazing characters and a story line that I was hooked on from the beginning. I highly recommend this story to everyone who loves reading about paranormal romance.
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This was a great, quick read!! This book was definitely short, but I enjoyed reading this book. You get romance, murder, adventure and information about “Dia Di Los Muerta.”
I received this as a free ARC copy, but all opinions are my own.
Gabriella/Brie and Antonio/Toni are two stranded ghosts that have a limited time to make piece with the living so that they can move on, one from their tragic accident the other from their murder.
For the most part this novella is very sweet and I would say PG13 with a tiny NC17 part. I suppose the author may have instigated a love interest so we would see these two in the afterlife together getting to know each other and getting their HEA despite their tragic end.
While the story is compelling there are several plot holes and a rush to the end that makes it feel a bit lacking for me. Both characters are pretty sweet and you do root for them to have closure so they can get their golden door.
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(3,5 )
A quick and easy read about spirits who find themselves trapped in the world of the living due to some unsolved business. Intriguing subject, fun to read, but the romance felt a bit “over the top”.
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I could not resist the cover it is so beautiful. Dia di los Muerta is my favorite holiday. It’s a beautiful way to celebrate the dead. The story is just as beautiful as the holiday. There were a couple of things that surprised me. It all made sense though. The ending made me cry. Beautiful story by a beautiful author. I cannot wait to read the second part of the story.
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H.G. Lynch’s story „Dead Girls Don’t Dance“ is an original short tale that intermixes gothic elements with mystery and crime solving, borrowing loosely from Día de los Muertos (the Mexican Day of the Death celebrations) iconography and tropes, it could be argued that some “borrowing” are not strictly true, but that isn’t an anthropological essay but as fictional tale, and a very good one indeed.
Brie know something is not exactly right, after all waking up a graveyard on the Día de los Muertos could be a plank, but looking down at your own body in the grave makes little sense, or does it? Dead at 19, without a means to communicate with the living, she struggles to come to term with her situation. Fortunately, she meets Antonio, another dead who also seems to have some unfinished business that prevent him to pass over, because according to tradition the spirits of the dead cross to the realm of the living during the Día de los Muertos festivities, and left the afterwards, but those spirits that cannot let go for any reasons are bound to remain in the realm of the living until they resolve whatever pending issues they may have. Thus, both Antonio and Brie join forces to solve the predicament and be able to leave through the Gate when the festivities end or risk be stuck for at least another year.
Lynch’s succeeds in making the dead relatable and the spirits empathic, up to a point in which the reader is faced with an internal conflict…. Let them go in peace through the Gate of wish they get stuck to enable the story to go on forever… it would be so worthy… but it wouldn’t be fair… so we reluctantly let them go.
A beautiful gothic tale, well-written, action thriven with suspense and mystery in spades and a healthy dose of romance.
This book is a short story. 30 pages long. It’s a fast read. It’s written wonderfully. Sucked me in from the start. I absolutely love Antonio, otherwise known as Toni. He captures you with his brilliant green eyes. Brie is wonderful as well. Right away she feels a connection to him. Not understanding it. As more and more secrets are revealed she understands why. Absolutely love the mystery and twists. I can’t wait for Toni’s story.
A touching story about life after death, romance was a bit stilted, but over all a teary quick read.