Dead Letter Office by Kira Snyder

Dead Letter Office (Parish Mail #1)
Kira Snyder
Publisher: Coliloquy
Release Date: January 11, 2012

Rating: 4.5 stars

When Celia’s father is killed in Afghanistan, she moves with her mother to New Orleans, the city where her father grew up. Struggling to adjust and haunted by troubling dreams, Celia finds comfort in new friends like Tilly, a practicing witch, and Donovan, the son of police detective. On Halloween, bizarre supernatural occurrences rock the city. Celia meets the mysterious Luc and finds a letter, over a hundred years old, addressed to her.

The paranormal repercussions continue when Celia learns that Luc is the restless spirit of a young man murdered in 1854, only able to assume solid form at night. And then, to her shock, Celia finds that the letter, which describes the suspected murder of a man in 1870, contains uncanny parallels to the present-day death of Abel Sims, a homeless veteran.

With help from Luc, Tilly, and Donovan, Celia races to solve the murder—and the mystery of the letter—using both magical and forensic clues.

I have been so impressed by Coliloquy thus far, because their books are just fantastic! And Dead Letter Office was no exception!  Dead Letter Office by Kira Snyder was such a great read and I am very excited to hear more from Kira Snyder and the wonderful cast of Dead Letter Office.

The plot of this one was so unique - it wasn't quite like anything I have read before. I loved Kira Snyder's portrayal of ghosts, as it was very cool.  Discovering what would happen next and trying to figure out what exactly was going down was just so fun. There wasn't a lot of predictability to the story - which was another great thing about it. There was a love square as well, which made things pretty interesting. It didn't get too much or overtake the story, like I sometimes feel they can.

Something else cool about this one was all the choices! There were SO many paths I could choose, and every time I had to make a choice, I was stuck going AH! I want both. So I ended up going up and reading both of some of the paths, just so I could see how each panned out.

I loved the characters. They were just so great. Celia was such a fun main character. Her sidekick Tilly was just as great, with her spunk and curious nature. I loved that I could never really figure out Luc. I liked him, but he really kept that sense of mystery about him. Donovan wasn't the  character you could easily peg out either, yet was so good natured.

I am very excited to see more of this series. Dead Letter Office by Kira Snyder was just SO great, and I cannot recommend it enough. Once I started it, putting it down was painful, because I was that addicted to the story.