Review: "Every Breath You Take" by Chris Marie Green (Jensen Murphy, Ghost for Hire #3)
Note: This ARC was provided by Penguin Group (Berkley, NAL/Signet Romance, DAW) via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Jensen Murphy has turned from the haunter to the haunted, courtesy of the dark spirit that has revealed itself to belong to her murderer. She needs to find out who he was but doesn't want to give the spirit more power over her, refusing to let it feed off her fear or desperation. The appearance of a ghost hunting team in the woods where she was killed is the last thing she wants and she and Amanda Lee Minter do their best to throw them off the scent and not stir up more attention to her more than thirty-year-old murder case.
Aside from dealing with the evil nipping at her heels, Jensen is also caught in the middle of her own melodrama involving Gavin Edgett, the first human she ever haunted and empathized, and fake Dean, an entity who seems to be around whenever she needs him, though she'll never admit it. She's drawn to Gavin and his own feelings have never waned, but she's very aware that he's alive and she, well, isn't. On the other hand, fake Dean is still hiding behind the facade of Jensen's ex, the real him still very much in hiding.
As her murderer's dark spirit goes from taunting her to going after and hurting those closest to her, Jensen must a put a stop to it, but when it becomes clear that it's receiving supernatural assistance from a powerful source, she needs to start looking for help from higher sources as well. Will Jensen be prepared to sacrifice more than she ever thought possible in order to rid both the two worlds she inhabits of the evil that's taking over or will it take everyone that Jensen cares about before ending Jensen for a second time?
Every Breath You Take is the third novel in the Chris Marie Green-penned Jensen Murphy, Ghost for Hire series, which has now become one of my favorites. For those who are unfamiliar with the series, it's about a ghost named Jensen Murphy who, in her early twenties, went missing more than thirty years ago in the Elfin Forest. Her spirit was located by a psychic named Amanda Lee Minter and their partnership has led to bringing help and finding justice for humans needing assistance and those ghosts gone too soon.
Fans of the series will be getting more answers to the one case that's been haunting (pun intended) us from the beginning: Jensen's murder. Because all the three books are connected, may I suggest to those who are thinking about starting the series to read them in order. Almost all of the supporting characters are recurring and learning about how Jensen, Amanda Lee, and the rest of the ghostly and living gang got together will help you understand why they're all invested in her case and why the dark spirit is after them.
I've you've read my reviews regarding the first two books, you'll have surmised that I'm a fan of the Jensen-Gavin team-up, though the Jensen-fake Dean one certainly piqued my interest in the second book. The love triangle involving all three grows more curious here, especially since you can't help but wonder how a relationship between a ghost and a human or a ghost and a whatever-fake-Dean-is will end up working. But hey, Wendy and Scott don't seem to have a problem with the living-no longer living thing.
This had enough twists and turns to keep my attention from start to finish and I loved every single one but my favorite had to be the one about fake Dean. I could call him by his actual name but that I don't want to spoil it for everyone else. By the time I got to the end, I couldn't help but feel that this was the end to the series, which is a total bummer since I only discovered it recently and I read all three books back-to-back-to-back. If Every Breath You Take is indeed the end, at least everything I wanted wrapped up was...but I'm still going to hold out hope that I'm wrong and that the world has not heard the last from Jensen Murphy, Ghost for Hire. I highly recommend the series as a whole and am giving book three a five-star rating. ♥
Release Date: 07 April 2015
Date Read: 06 April 2015
Learn more about Chris Marie Green here.
Comments
Post a Comment