
Grave Beginnings
Grave Report, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Travis Baldree
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By:
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R.R. Virdi
“Quick, clean action, solid character work and pacing. This series is worth your time.” (Jim Butcher, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Dresden Files)
Another day, another hijacked body. And just 13 hours to solve a murder…Detective Vincent Graves has made a habit of dying. Waking up in someone else’s body isn’t pleasant, especially when it's inside a coffin with tons of dirt pressing down on it. Once he’s out, he learns his soul has 13 hours to find the borrowed body’s killer.
With the help of a brilliant FBI agent, Vincent’s quest for clues leads to a looming supernatural presence. And escaping the dark threat may be impossible with his ever-ticking clock…
Can Vincent close the case in time, or will a powerful being make him rest in peace for good?
Grave Beginnings is the first book in The Grave Report urban fantasy detective series. If you like paranormal twists, hard-boiled investigators, and noir-style magic, then you’ll love R.R. Virdi’s paranormal investigator series.
“His stuff is badass!” (Larry Correia, New York Times best-selling author)
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Great Book
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Solid narration/performance, more plot holes than Swiss Cheese
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GREAT Story!
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Yes, the feeling is sarcastic noir, with a thing against government authority.
Yes, there are head scratching plot issues if you think too much on them.
Yes, there are easy solutions ignored for the sake of extending the plot.
(Example: he’s dug himself out of a grave, again, and bemoans how hard it’ll be to figure out
whose body he’s occupying… and yet doesn’t think to check whose name is on the tombstone?)
Yes, there’s the frustrating premise of Vincent blindly doing his supernatural job
without understanding the hows or the whys.
(Not to mention that the hows or whys change arbitrarily, like when Church gives him 24 hours
to solve the crime, and when Vincent complains, Church makes it 13 hours)
Yes, there’s too much focus on the fight scenes and not enough on world building.
Nonetheless, it’s a formula that went down easy.
I enjoyed this just like I enjoyed Quantum Leap in the 80s without caring whether it all made sense.
Formulaic and yet still fun
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Okay, I guess this needs bit of a SPOILER WARNING - no details, but the complaint does reveal a bit of the plot
I did find the end boss fight too long. He finds the monster, they fight. Then they fight. Then they fight some more... okay, maybe it's just my age, and the fact that I am not much of a gamer, perhaps that would be more to the taste of younger generations who are. I would have preferred that end fight cut into a few pieces, like they fight, he has to escape the fight or the monster does, then he maybe has to do some investigating to find the monster again - or another way to defeat it - before fighting it again. Or the monster finds him. Not just one extended long fight.
END OF THE SPOILER
So, all in all: story is good, but not a perfect fit for my taste. The narrator is good. I think the combination made it well worth listening to.
Good enough
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Repetitive, not my cup of coffee
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I HIGHLY recommend this book if you need a Mystery story in the Paranormal that is fun and funny at times too!! Narrator did a very nice job on this.
This Story Grabs you from the Start!
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Solid
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A solid story
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Poorly written but funny
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