Three Days to Dead
by Kelly Meding
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Author: Kelly MedingEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-11-24
ISBN: 0553592866
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Dell
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Book Review: Three Days to Dead - Kelly Meding
Summary: 5 Stars
It has been awhile since I have felt this passionate about a book. I love my romances with the steamy smex, but I also am a huge fan of urban fantasy. I love the altered worlds, kick ass heroines, the sexual tension, and great action. Three Days to Dead has it all, written so well there were times I had to make myself take a deep breath so I could get through the page. I laughed out loud and at one point I had to read with one eye open because of the awful things that were being done. This book also brought back my bad habit of sneaking peeks ahead. Yes, I'm a peeker and it is this book's fault. There were two occasions where I absolutely had to take a quick look to make sure a certain character was coming back. The reason I had to look is because Kelly Meding doesn't write a perfect world. Innocents die, bad things happen to characters you like, Evy doesn't always succeed in what she is trying to do. So as the reader, you are left on the edge of your seat without being able to guess what the outcome is going to be. Although the world has supernatural rules, it felt real. Bad things happen, and that makes a great book.
There are about two hundred things I want to talk about, but I knew nothing of this book when I started it and I think it greatly enhanced my reading experience, so I am not going to go heavy into the plot. The book has one of the best beginnings I have read this year. Evy opens her eyes and she is in a morgue and in a different body, but she has retained her mind and memories - at least all of her memories except for the past few days - those detailing how and why she died. After scanning the charts, she discovers her new name is Challice. Desperate for clothes, money and transportation, she goes to Challice's address. Her plans become somewhat mottled when she runs into Alex, Challice's roommate who discovered Challice dead and identified her at the morgue. Think he is a bit freaked out to see her now?
The world Evy lives in is full of magic, although most people don't even realize it. Most are oblivious because Evy has spent the past four years working in a secret organization. She is a bounty hunter that protects the innocent humans from the dregs - otherwise known as the vampires, goblins, shifters, etc. She works in what is called a triad, with two other team members. All triads have a handler that send them out on their mission. It can be a very violent job, and Evy has lived quite a hard life, but she likes it. Her triad is elite with more kills than any other. She likes to think of imaginative ways to kill the rogue supernaturals, she lives for that high.
When Evy awakes in the morgue, she knows someone must have performed a spell to put her spirit in another body. But she has no idea who, nor why. She can't remember the past couple of days. She has no idea how or why she died. The last of her memories are of her teammates being killed, her being blamed for it, and innocent shifters being slaughtered.
The only person that is alive that she can trust is her handler, Wyatt. After literally running into him and convincing him that it is actually her in another's body, they must figure out who set up Evy to die. Wyatt knows Evy was captured and tortured, but why is the big question. The twist is, the spell performed to bring Evy back lasts only three days. She has 72 hours to live, to bring justice to those murdered, and to try to remember the past few days before she is dead, forever.
There were a few times where I thought Evy may have forgotten she only had three days to live, where she seemed a little too nonchalant about the situation. However, the desperation starts to seep into her as the clock ticks and towards the end it becomes a full out race. To put it plain and simple, Evy is kind of bitchy but that is not necessarily a deterrent for liking her character. She doesn't take crap from anyone, and to say she is enraged that someone set her up, is an understatement. The funny thing is, she isn't really that upset that she is dead. She is more angry that innocent shifters that were trying to protect her were killed. She is angry that she was deceived by people she thought were trustworthy. And she is angry that Wyatt has been dragged into this. Ultimately, I found her to be extremely unselfish and because of that, she becomes a very likable heroine.
In these three days, Evy has a monumental task of figuring out how she dies and why, and coming to terms with her feelings for Wyatt. Wyatt and her have a history, and as her memories come back from her final days, although her physical body is healed, her emotional memories are dark, and hurtful. Her relationship with Wyatt is very complex and this definitely becomes Evy's weakness. Wyatt tells Evy three simple words, and with everything going on in her life, these three words become the most difficult for her to deal with:
"You've got me"
She does. He is her base. He is not only her mentor, her friend, but he becomes so much more. And if you look from his perspective, he loves this girl that he only has three days left with. He has to be strong for her, be the rock, give her space when her emotions topple. For as strong as she is, he holds it together for them.
Summary of Three Days to Dead
They?ll never see her coming. . . .When Evangeline Stone wakes up naked and bruised on a cold slab at the morgue?in a stranger?s body, with no memory of who she is and how she got there?her troubles are only just beginning. Before that night she and the two other members of her Triad were the city?s star bounty hunters, mercilessly cleansing the city of the murderous creatures living in the shadows, from vampires to shape-shifters to trolls. Then something terrible happened that not only cost all three of them their lives but also convinced the city?s other Hunters that Evy was a traitor?and she can?t even remember what it was.
Now she?s a fugitive, piecing together her memory, trying to deal some serious justice?and discovering that she has only three days to solve her own murder before the reincarnation spell wears off. Because in three days Evy will die again?but this time there?s no second chance. . . .
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