A Match Made in Hell

Nikki Styx had died, then come back to life. Doing so has caused her to see ghosts who continually want her to do things for them. Her boyfriend is waiting to hear from his hopefully soon-to-be ex-wife who might possibly be Nikki's sister.

The first ghost to appear asks Nikki's help to find her daughter who was in a car accident with her. Nikki does, but the woman turns out to be her boyfriend's (current) wife.

The ghost who came to Nikki turns out to be the ghost of her mother. Nikki and her sister don't get along well.

Things get more complicated when her sister sees Albert (of the first book), but she doesn't know that he is dead. Then her mother appears again to Nikki and warns her about some guy coming to get her and Kelly, her sister. Nikki encounters the female ghost of a dead guy, and she wants certain things; Kelly encounters a male ghost who also wants certain things.

Peach's ghost appears to Nikki again, and at the funeral a woman claiming to be their grandmother tells Nikki and Kelly they need to come with her for training.

Kelly (who really has a very nasty personality and simply will not listen to anything anyone wants to say that goes against what she wants to do) wants Nikki to go with her on some kind of trip to supposedly save Peach's ghost.

There's also some guy following Nikki around.

Within a very short time after arriving in Savannah, Nikki meets a female ghost from the time of the Civil War.

The woman ghost (Psycho Barbie), Nikki has named her, has set up with the Devil and plans to take either Nikki's or Kelly's soul.

The Devil appears again to Nikki. He wants her. Or Kelly.

A quite bothersome thing with this novel is the character of Kelly. She acts utterly stupid. She refuses to listen to anything Nikki says, convenient overlooking the fact that Nikki is the experienced one. Kelly acts in such a completely stupid manner (especially considering the danger that they are both can get in because of her actions), that the reader has no sympathy for Kelly at all. She's a totally annoying character who hurts the story, rather than helps it.

Her character and he attitude got so annoying that, a number of times, I almost stopped reading the book because of it, but forced myself to continue.

Later. I've finished the first 14 out of 24 chapters. I am so sick of Kelly's obstinate personality that I'm am putting the book up for a while. I'll read a few others, and then force myself to get back to this one.

Joe leaves Nikki after Psycho Barbie pulls one of her stunts. Later Nikki meets a ghost of a young girl. Later Nikki's grandmother's ghost shows up. She tells Nikki that she has to help Kelly become strong enough to resist the Devil.

Nikki finds out some dark secrets about her mother, and Kelly undergoes a rather massive change of attitude (a little unbelievable, actually). They end up having to take on the Devil himself, and end up getting some help from a guy in drag.

This book has none of the humor that is in the first book. It's deadly serious. Kelly's semi-temporary conversion to intelligence is too convenient. I basically feel that I pretty much wasted my time reading it.

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