Think life is full of forms? Try demise! According to Therese Beharrie’s A Ghost in Shining Armor, there’s a complete system at work as soon as somebody dies to assist their soul transfer on to no matter comes subsequent. For some, this implies lingering as ghosts, seen solely to uncommon people like Gemma Daniels who assist them resolve unfinished enterprise. For others, demise comes with a chance to tackle an task . . . and possibly change their destiny. This is what occurs to Levi Walker: If he succeeds as a guardian angel, he”ll come again to life. And the individual he’s been assigned to assist simply occurs to be Gemma.
Gemma’s not freaked out at being approached by a ghost, given all of the spirits she’s helped since she noticed her first ghost at age 18. But sadly, her and Levi’s first assembly goes slightly off the rails. If Gemma doesn’t acknowledge ghosts, they keep insubstantial and invisible to everybody however her. But if she acknowledges the spirit—touches them, talks to them or factors them out to another person, they develop into corporeal and visual to everybody. And as a result of she by accident acknowledges Levi, not realizing he’s a ghost, he now seems alive, resulting in nice confusion from her family and friends in regards to the new man in her life. That scrutiny is the very last thing she needs as she grapples with new details about her previous: She has a twin sister (the heroine of Beharrie’s earlier romance, And They Lived Happily Ever After). Levi was despatched to assist Gemma course of the invention that her twin was left in foster care whereas Gemma was adopted.
If this premise sounds slightly zany, that’s as a result of it’s. There are a lot of hijinks, beginning with Gemma and Levi’s impulsive meet cute kiss and persevering with by way of faux dates, awkward cohabitation moments and all of the banter and snark you’d anticipate from a rom-com. But Beharrie contains deeper character insights that steadiness the fluff. A Ghost in Shining Armor is as richly imagined as it’s deeply shifting, whereas being rather a lot of enjoyable, as effectively. The tone could be a bit uneven in spots as Beharrie balances the humor and the pathos, however her characters are endearing sufficient to hold readers by way of.
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