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Polterheist (2012)

by Laura Resnick(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0756407338 (ISBN13: 9780756407339)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Daw Books

series

Esther Diamond

review 1: As luck would have it, I picked this up the week before Christmas without knowing it was a Christmas book, so it it got some bonus points right off the bat. In this one Esther is working as a department store elf... Dreidel, Santa's Jewish elf. There are, of course, multiple elves and Santas on the payroll, such as Diversity Santa, Naughty and Nice, and so on, and Esther has to call in some of her associates from previous volumes to help in the investigation of the apparently haunted store. It's a bit too long and ends on an annoying cliffhanger, but is most cleverly written and all-in-all it is a lot of holiday fun. It would have been a great old black-and-white holiday movie starring Myrna Loy as Esther.
review 2: I like this series and characters, but I do f... moreind myself slightly exasperated by what seems to me like an inordinate amount of time spent explicitly establishing (often repeatedly) characters' thoughts/motivations/previous escapades etc. I also feel as if it was a little slow getting started; the "action" advertised in the plot teaser on the back of the book didn't occur until several chapters in. In addition, the on-again-off-again romance is a bit frustrating, though the ending of this book is clearly meant to establish a cliffhanger that will lead into the next. Despite these quibbles, I did enjoy the book, and it is a light-hearted and enjoyable read. less

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