“Banks’s debut marks the start of a promising urban fantasy series, something like Ghostbusters with a British accent.” – Publisher’s WeeklyKester Lanner didn’t know what to expect when he followed his mother’s dying request to contact the mysterious Dr. Ribero, but he wasn’t expecting to find his long lost father. Nor was he expecting to join the family business: catching supernatural spirits.… spirits.
Kester is intrigued despite his fear, and finds himself drawn into an ancient ghost story that will test the entire agency.He soon becomes enmeshed in a struggle with the spirit, who is so malevolent and haunting that his first real case might just be his last.
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Good foe easy light reading.
Bored me. Gave up
A little predictable but still a fun read
What I enjoyed the most was the change and growth in one of the characters.
i quit reading and deleted as it was giving me unsettleing dreams
Kester somehow finds himself in the moddle of a ghostbusters-type unreality. Hi mother, on her deathbed, had told him to find “diRibero” so he did. Kester, the friendless nerd (in all his university years he had only gone twice to pubs and didn’t like either experience) finds himself thrown in with a quirky bunch that takes care of hauntings and possessions for the British government. This book is delightfull funny while also being charming.
Starts off strange but opens up with interesting characters. Good story worth the read.
Charming and entertaining.
I haven’t read many books about spirit hunters, so the story was unusual and interesting. The characters were a little odd, but you would have to be odd to do what they do. A real page turner.
Takes a few chapters to hook the reader, I found. But then it is pretty entertaining. Some of the characters are sort of hard to take but they fit into the needs of the plot.
Fun book! Worth the read.
Very different and unpredictable. I enjoyed it very much and want to read others with the same characters.
It was a little hard to get into at first, but eventually delivered an interesting story.
It wasn’t bad but the characters just were not likable at all.
A quirky and funny read!
Did not grab my attention
I enjoyed reading this very much, and when it was over, felt immediately like I wanted to find other books by the author. It is not often that you find a book that leads you do deeply along, that, that is your automatic response.
slow labouous
I was surprised that I liked this… but it was good
It is an okay read