TERRI GAREY: DEAD GIRLS ARE EASY Although perhaps the logical sequence after Stephanie Meyer literally infatuated the world with vampires and warewolves for the theme of the column would be to choose one of mentioned actors, I decided to make the change from the above mentioned topic. Because paranormal creatures in equally paranormal romance can have a much wider scope and more realistic grasp and at the same time remain mysterious and attractive such as those that currently govern the big screens. So this time I've chosen the first book by American writer Terri Garey called Dead Girls Are Easy. I know, you guess, and you are quite right, this choice isn't an accidental but this time I will leave the musical background, beside the aforementioned movie vampires, to the most famous vampires on music scene, The 69 Eyes and look at the book that, thanks exactly to the first single taken from their album «Back In Blood», I read during the summer almost in one breath while travelling on the route Zagreb-Helsinki-Zagreb. Enjoy it because…. „dead girls are easy“! Until the next reading! More information about Terri Garey and her work find on: www.tgarey.com Text: Ivana Sataić - Ivy |
The book Dead Girls Are Easy is not only the debut of its author Terri Garey but also the first of three books of Nicki Styx, Goth and vintage girl who during the near death experience recognized the message «do unto others as you would have them do unto you» and opened the door to a completely new world – the world of paranormal. Because, when Nicki Styx woke up in hospital after a heart attack she didn’t expect anything will change in her life but, nevertheless, now she can see and hear the dead, including her murdered friend Caprice who, it seems, wants to drag Nicki into the world of voodoo. So even though the story told like this, summarized in a few words, may recall a Ghost Whisperer series here we talk, believe me, about something deeper, stratified, intriguing and above all paranormal. Despite of the fact that some more 'inveterate' experts in voodoo (in West Africa the religion known as vodun or vudun) maybe will resent half humorous approach to the above mentioned issues, I will congratulate the author on sharp and simple but yet not vain manner in which she showed gothic girls fight against forces she doesn't know, but accidentally was compelled to get know. The language of Nicki Styx is humorous, sarcastic, romantic, dramatic, but in every moment adequately dosed so the reader feels to be holds in chains tied to the book. Some critics will point out that the book doesn't approach serious enough to the complex paranormal issues in terms of experiences close to death so if you really expect scientific research or topic on which there will be discuss in the science-education program in prime time on national television immediately leave the book aside because here is about the paranormal romance that will get readers through the fundamental concepts of paranormal thematic that handles but primarily give the readers a dose of fun through the character who is a member of one subculture who quite accidentally finds herself in a situation she never recalled, but who in the same time beside the gift of paranormal gets also the gift of „normal“ in a shape of the sexy doctor from the ER Joes Bascome with whom she soon share much more than just the ECG machine in the ER.