4-1-10 Once Dead, Twice Shy by Kim Harrison - Fiction

4 - I've come to enjoy the depth of Harrison's Hollows series so this is a little too juvenile for me, but it is a teen book. Madison is a dead teenager who, when not in school, hangs out with a reaper. Barnabas is a light reaper who tries to save the lives of those targeted for an early demise by the dark reapers. Madison is to be trained by him because, in a weird twist of fate, when she died she was able to steal an amulet from her reaper and keep the illusion of a corporeal body. This amulet involves her in a power struggle between the forces of light and dark. Not like being a teenager wasn't hard enough. Luckily, Once Dead, Twice Shy contains Harrison's slightly off humor, mostly in the form of a guardian angel with a penchant for limericks. Not a bad teen book but if you've been spoiled by the Hollows books like I have you may want to skip this one.