{"id":8013,"date":"2020-11-09T19:02:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T23:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=8013"},"modified":"2020-11-09T19:08:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T23:08:40","slug":"book-review-the-perfectly-fine-house-by-stephen-koseniewski-and-wile-e-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-the-perfectly-fine-house-by-stephen-koseniewski-and-wile-e-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Perfectly Fine House by Stephen Kozeniewski and Wile E. Young"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Perfectly Fine House <\/em>by Stephen Kozeniewski and Wile E. Young (\u00a0 Bookshop.org<\/a> |\u00a0 Amazon.com )<\/a><\/p>\n

Grindhouse Press, 2020<\/p>\n

ISBN: 13:978-1-9419-18-63-0<\/p>\n

Available: Kindle, paperback<\/p>\n

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The \u201cbreathers\u201d depicted in The Perfectly Fine House <\/em>do the usual: work, shop, have kids. The ghosts are busy, too. Sometimes, they help out with the great-grandkids, travel to exotic locations or hang out with their friends. They go to their local bar, smoke sage to get high, and maybe meet up with a young Unenlightened person who likes to date dead people.<\/p>\n

But being dead isn\u2019t all fun and games. There are those who disrespectfully walk straight through you, and you risk being arrested for any \u201cunsanctioned possessions.\u201d It\u2019s also really disturbing to find a friend or relative \u201crelapsing\u201d because you can actually see the wounds that killed him. For the ghosts in this book, things get even worse than that when they realize their community is disappearing from Earth.<\/p>\n

Stephen Koseniewski and Wile E. Young have written a clever and frequently amusing tale that blends ghostly and human lifestyles with appealing characters. Donna, a \u201csurrogate\u201d who makes love matches between the dead and the living, and her brother Kyle, killed in a motorcycle accident, struggle to find out what is causing the holes all over the world into which ghosts are vanishing. Characters include an exorcist love interest for Donna, a friend of Kyle\u2019s who died \u201ctrying to flash fry a turkey in gasoline,\u201d and a poet who comes up with a way to execute ghosts. Will Bonnie, the first to witness a disappearance, be able to apply her scientific savvy in time to stop the destruction? Will Donna lose her brother forever? At a time when having no \u201cghostsense\u201d is a disability, you need to be careful to avoid provoking the dead \u201cto go all poltergeist on you.\u201d Good luck with that. Recommended.<\/p>\n

Contains: adult situations and language<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Nova Hadley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Perfectly Fine House by Stephen Kozeniewski and Wile E. Young (\u00a0 Bookshop.org |\u00a0 Amazon.com ) Grindhouse Press, 2020 ISBN: 13:978-1-9419-18-63-0 Available: Kindle, paperback   The \u201cbreathers\u201d depicted in The Perfectly Fine House do the usual: work, shop, have kids. The ghosts are busy, too. Sometimes, they help out with the great-grandkids, travel to exotic<\/p>\n

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