Review: Charlaine Harris' Grave Surprise

Charlaine Harris' Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I received this book from Net Galley for an honest review.

I've enjoyed reading the books involving Harper Connelly so when I got a chance to read the comic I was ecstatic! Having read the book it was based on didn't really influence my dislike or like for the story. I like that it is all in one book instead of broken up into parts, that way you can continue to read the story. This explains harper's gift of being able to sense the dead. It's pretty spot on to the original book which I loved.

With that being said you don't have to read the first book (comic book set) in the Harper Connelly series to know about Harper. It's explained in the story and gives enough background like your reading the first book of the series. The drawing's are crisp and lined well, it's not messy or blurry on the pages. The art work feels like it suits the character's instead of feeling out of place with it. Sometimes the art doesn't feel like it fits the characters but in this case it does. I love the visual aspect of Harper and Tolliver and how everything else is drawn.

The story still draws me in like I was reading it the first time. Harper Connelly can see how people were murdered, not who killed them but how they were killed and tries to bring some console to those who are willing to pay her for it. She's hired by this professor as he tries to prove she's a fraud and not the real thing. She proves him wrong but in doing that she ends up finding a body of one of her past cases that she never could find.

The mystery of how did the young girl end up from the two cities, and who really did kill her? Why did it happen?
Harper digs deeper to find out the reasoning behind the madness. There's some bumps along the way, an FBI agent who never got over the case, a phsycic who needs to talk to Harper because it's important, the angry one time lover of Tolliver; Harper's own feelings, and more people dead.

Once she figures it all out everything becomes clear, and she has to get to her brother before he ends up on the not living list too.

With the mystery solved and the Police taking the murder into custody it seems to have helped everybody heal. Harper and Toliver are seen leaving the city heading to their next job.

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