Grave Measures

The Grave Report, Book 2

De: R.R. Virdi

Narrado por: Travis Baldree

"This series is worth your time." (Jim Butcher, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Dresden Files)

What do shadows darting across the walls, cryptic writing, black fog, and a little girl who can see ghosts have in common? Paranormal investigator and soul without a body Vincent Graves has 44 hours to find out.

To make matters worse, his years of body-hopping and monster-hunting are catching up with him. He's losing his mind. An old contact has shut him out. To top it all off, something's skulking through an asylum, killing patients.

Three guesses who might be next, and the first two don't count. The writing on the wall is not so clear. But one thing is: If he doesn't figure this out he's a dead man - well, deader - and a strange young girl might follow. Vincent's got his back against a wall, and that wall's crumbling.

Some days it's not worth it to wake up in someone else's body.

©2016 R. R. Virdi (P)2021 Tantor

WOW!!!

R.R. Virdi really steps it up in this book. Action packed and fun with a great setting. Audio performance really pulls you in as well. Great job and highly recommend this read/listen!

A fantastic premise populated by fantastic characters

Really, really good. Virdi knows how to keep up the pace and make you care about the characters. I’m looking forward to the next one.

Fun

If you like Dresden you'll like this. Similar character and plot tools. Enjoy the ride.

Fast paced

There was a lot that felt just shoehorned into this book. While I liked the idea of expanding the world, I was more annoyed with the execution. Overall I felt this was more of a continuation of the first book where a continuation wasn’t needed. Also, the mechanic of him having to finish his mission in a set amount of time suddenly lowered the stakes. Between the first and this book it became clear there was no penalty for failure save the MCs own disappointment. In this book I never felt the stakes from the first because, in all honesty, his failure didn’t really matter anymore. The first book felt like a good concept but this felt like that concept was not fully explored.

Even better.

As Audiobook 2 in a series, Grave Measures hits all the targets it needs to. It expands the world, its characters grow, the story improves off book 1 even as it sets up book 3, raises the stakes all the way through and it'sthe same great Narrator as book 1. I enjoyed this book more than the first and am looking forward to book 3.