Early to Death, Early to Rise-Kim Harrison

This is the 2^nd Madison Avery book, sequel to Once Dead, Twice Shy. Madison is the Dark Timekeeper, but she doesn’t believe in fate. Madison is given a scything of guy who’s going to put a computer virus in a hospital’s computer system, causing 3 people to die. She ends up finding the mark (marked to be scythed) at the mall working in a fast food place. It’s either Ace or Shoe. She thinks it’s Ace, Barnabas thinks it’s Shoe. Nakita goes with Madison and Ace. They find out that Ace is a graffiti artist, the one who made album covers for the illegally downloaded music that Shoe would hack. Ace is foul tempered. They end up going after Shoe, the techie one. Along the way, they’re trying to keep this all from the Light Timekeeper, Ron (Chronis) and his apprentice, Paul. After a flash forward, they have to hurry before Ron finds out. They follow Shoe to the school where he’s planning the virus-prank to shut down school for a day. They end up telling him too much, trying to stop him, but he already did it. Madison figures out it’s really Ace, so Madison comes up with a plan in order to get Shoe to patch up the hospital’s system. Madison plays dead-she already is dead! With a great confrontation and conflict that I will not spoil, I suggest you read this book for yourself!

It was really good. I love the reapers-angels theme. It’s pretty sweet! A fast read!

~*Haley*