My name is Amelia Gray. I'm a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts. In order to protect myself from the parasitic nature of the dead, I've always held fast to the rules passed down from my father. But now a haunted police detective has entered my world and everything is changing, including the rules that have always kept me safe.
It started with the discovery of a young woman's brutalized body in an old Charleston graveyard I've been hired to restore. The clues to the killer—and to his other victims—lie in the headstone symbolism that only I can interpret. Devlin needs my help, but his ghosts shadow his every move, feeding off his warmth, sustaining their presence with his energy. To warn him would be to invite them into my life. I've vowed to keep my distance, but the pull of his magnetism grows ever stronger even as the symbols lead me closer to the killer and to the gossamer veil that separates this world from the next.
From Goodreads.
- Publisher: Mira
- Release Date: May 1st, 2011
- My Copy: ARC received from NetGalley.
- Pages: 400
- Series: Graveyard Queen
- Genre: Urban Fantasy / Mystery
- Author's Website
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Amelia has been going to cemeteries ever since she was a little girl and used to help her dad in his caretaker job. At an early age she found out she could see ghosts, but her father gave her a set of rules to keep her safe, as long as she followed them to the letter.
These are not the friendly ghosts we usually read about, but parasitical entities that have the power to drain the life out of you.
Amelia is all grown up now and with a successful career as a Cemetery restorer. In The Restorer, she is working close to home when a series of dead bodies show up on her domain and she ends up helping the local police solve these murders.
The Restorer was delightfully creepy for me. The cemetery setting and way Amanda Stevens constructed the plot had me wishing I had read this book in day light, an that had never happened to me before.
However, that is not to say The Restorer doesn’t have its faults. I felt the story to be a bit dry at times and Amelia and Devlin’s almost romance to leave a little to be desired. I do hope there are more books in this series and that the author is able to develop these characters more.
Amanda did an incredible job when it came to setting the scene and making me feel like I was right there next to Amelia in such a creepy cemetery. The Restorer is not your run-of-the-mill Urban Fantasy and it should be considered more in the Mystery Thriller genre, a very good one at that.
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