Book Review: The Ghost is Clear by Arial Burnz and AJ Nuest

A Series of Midlife Curses Book 1

A Midlife Crisis…or Curse…or BOTH?

Life after forty is fun, they said. You can be whoever you want, they said.

Well, "they" were wrong. Getting old sucks and I’m cranky from the unexpected changes.

After fighting off the doldrums of an empty nest, I dreamed of getting a fresh start with my husband. Maybe David and I could fly off somewhere and rekindle our relationship with a second honeymoon.

Flip the script to an EPIC FAIL that ended in a near-fatal car accident, and after six weeks in a coma, David flushed me and our marriage of over two decades down the toilet I’d been scrubbing for years.

Now a single divorcée with chump change in my pocket, I’m forced to move into my childhood home. And to make matters worse, the place seems to be haunted. Or maybe I’m just having a nervous breakdown over the mystery of my brother’s suicide.

His creepy journals have been certainly keeping me awake at night. I could swear a strange entity is floating through my midst.

But hey, at least the hot handyman, helping me fix up the place, won’t stop walking around the property half dressed.

Geez, between the menopausal hormones and getting the house ready to sell, my muscles are twinging in places I didn’t know existed. If my therapist was right, and life is a do-over, then why is everything such a crisis? Midlife or not, I could swear I was cursed.

Guess I’m in charge of my own happy ending. ----------------- Join Brooke Durand and her magical midlife crisis in the quirky town of Eerie, Indiana. Read Book 1 in this new hot-flash genre of Paranormal Women's Fiction. A Series of Midlife Curses is written by the dynamic duo of award-winning author AJ Nuest and USA Today bestselling author Arial Burnz.

Perfect for fans of K.F. Breene, Deanna Chase, Melinda Chase, Victoria Danann, Jana DeLeon, Heloise Hull, Elizabeth Hunter, Darynda Jones, Shannon Mayer, Kristen Painter, Robyn Peterman, Denise Grover Swank, Brenda Trim, and paranormal women's fiction.

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My Review:

That was a lot of fun and I can’t wait to see where Brooke’s story goes next. As the first book in the new series, there’s a lot of time and attention spent introducing us to the characters and setting the stage for where we’re about to go. I really liked Brooke. The fact that she’s starting over at a time in her life when society tells us she should be setting her burdens down, makes her someone I think a lot of us can relate to. Though, her pathological refusal to face some of her problems head on made me want to tear my hair out from the roots. I adored the little tweak the authors gave the mythology. And to my mind, that tiny little twist feels more realistic than the original myth. I’m curious to see what other curses and calamities Brooke is going to face in the future. I’m also dying to see her soon-to-be-ex-husband get everything he so richly deserves.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the authors.