Katie L. (kloughlin) reviewed on 8/13/2014 + 4 more book reviews

First things first, I love the cover of this novel. Anyone who knows me knows that I dont pay much attention to the cover of a book when deciding whether to read it and that was the case when I decided on Secondhand Spirits. However, it would be wrong of me not to point out that the cover has glitter. Raised, sparkly mist surrounds the woman in pink to imply an overflowing amount of magic within her. But now that Im looking at it again, I could see how someone might confuse the wispy smoke with a bad odor or extremely nasty gas.
Still. Glitter.
Throughout the first half of the book, I found myself rolling my eyes at how blatantly alike it was to another book Ive read, Tall, Dark & Dead by Tate Hallaway. In the interest of fairness, I looked up the publication dates of the two novels. Tall, Dark & Dead came out in 2006, four years before Secondhand Spirits was published. Unless the similarities between the novels are merely coincidental, Juliet Blackwell likely copied Tate Hallaway, but Ill leave it up to you, readers, to decide for yourselves.

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