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REVIEW: Shaking off the Dust by Rhianna Samuels

Dear Ms. Samuels,

This book has a great beginning with a different plot. In a book world overpopulated with vampires and werewolves, it was something totally new to me. You give us interesting characters - a flawed heroine, a Japanese hero and Tom, who’s a ghost. It starts wonderfully and then, unfortunately, goes totally overboard by the end.

Hannah is standing at the graveside of a doctor she’d worked with when something weird happens. A wind blows up and scatters his ashes, which she breathes in, right as lightening strikes. The next thing she knows, she’s in her own ER, being treated for her injuries and seeing things. A ghost specifically. Tom’s ghost. Once she realizes she’s not going off the deep end, they both start to work out what’s happened and what it means.

Tom’s best friend, Professor Takeshi Shimodo, thinks Hannah is nuts when she shows up at Tom’s house where Takeshi is staying while he clears up Tom’s legal business. It takes a while to convince him, but finally he believes what she, and Tom, are telling him. Hannah is in touch with Tom, who wants …