Waking the Dead

This is book 2 in the Dead series by Kerry Blaisdell and picks up where book 1, Debriefing the Dead, ended. Hyacinth is still working for Michael in sorting dead souls and finding the missing shards of Michael's staff. There is a diverse group of characters assisting Hyacinth on these missions. But as she zeroes in on one of the shards, Hyacinth ends up in a heap of trouble. With a lot of ingenuity and luck, this book reaches a stunning conclusion.

Waking the Dead by Kerry Blaisdell is the second book in The Dead Series. This book continues where book one left off but a stand alone novel. This book is full of interesting characters who include a dead aunt Hyacinth with a demon nephew Geordi, her demon ex-boy friend Jason, a ghost Eric, and angel Michael. The main character Hyacinth is trying to do the job she agreed to do which is to find and collect special shards of rock for Michael before hells denizens can collect these same shards. The only problem is that Michael gave her a side job to do and that “job” keeps interfering with her ability to do anything except look just slightly crazy to the normal living people around her. This book is seriously like a fun house full of adventures, you never know what might happen when you read the next page. I loved the way this book never followed a discernable pattern. Random strange things kept happening to the characters which made me laugh and kept me hooked reading until the very end.