"I Date Dead People" Review: Kirkus Reviews (January 15)

The following review appeared in the January 15 issue of Kirkus:

I DATE DEAD PEOPLE
Author: Kerns, Ann
Illustrator: Görrissen, Janina

Review Issue Date: January 15, 2012
Online Publish Date: January 4, 2012
Publisher:Graphic Universe
Pages: 128
Price ( Library Ed ): $29.27
Price ( Paperback ): $9.95
Price ( e-book ): $21.95
Publication Date: April 1, 2012
ISBN ( Library Ed ): 978-0-7613-6007-0
ISBN ( Paperback ): 978-0-7613-8549-3
ISBN ( e-book ): 978-0-7613-8739-8
Category: Fiction
Series: My Boyfriend is a Monster
Volume: 5

“I’ll never find a Mr. Darcy or a Heathcliff in this world,” moans Nora. Maybe not in this world.

Featuring a new family and an old house with a veritable platoon of supernatural residents, this latest entry in the tongue-in-cheek My Boyfriend is a Monster series hooks up a modern teenager and hunky, long-dead Thomas, who, it turns out, can manifest strongly enough to lock hands and lips. That’s the good news. Not so good: Two malicious poltergeists, a spectral moaner and a dark entity that can suck up both ghostly and living bodies, threaten to drive Nora and her family away entirely unless she can find a way to exorcise the lot. Except that the characters all sport oversized manga-esque eyes, the easy-to-follow black-and-white panels are drawn with a loose, expressive realism that effectively captures the plot’s droll and eerie turns. In the end, with a psychic’s help Nora does the deed even though it means Thomas’ departure, too—leaving her free for a budding new relationship with a (breathing) schoolmate.

Any resemblances to Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze are surely coincidental. (Graphic paranormal romance. 12-14)