Today's post kicks off something I hope will become a regular Friday feature. Each week I will attempt to share whatever I've been reading. Some weeks will be better than others as the books I am reading for my RA class will impact my leisure reading.

This week in particular has not been a spectacular week for reading, but I'm very happy with the novel I managed to finish last night. After waiting forever for a copy to become available, I finally got my hands on Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris. Grave Sight is the first in a series of books that are centered around Harper Connelly, a young woman who was struck by lightning as a teenager and now has the ability to sense dead people. Not only can Harper sense a corpse, but she can also relive their last moment. Harper, with the assistance of her step-brother Tolliver, makes her living by using her gift to locate the dead for a fee (making her a pariah in most people's eyes). In this introductory novel Harper is called to a rural town in Arkansas to locate the body of a missing teenage girl, but before she knows it Harper and her brother become entangled in the investigation of a string in deaths.

Overall I enjoyed Grave Sight. While the strange relationship between Harper and Tolliver is one I am looking forward to seeing explained/fleshed out in future books, it is the voice of the main character that I think will resonate the most with readers. Harper is so honest and straightforward in how she views the world around her, that a reader can't help but be drawn in by her. My only complaint about the book would be that even after finishing the book I felt like there was still so much about Harper Connelly that I didn't know. Stuff I want to know. Which is probably the author's intent, as it guarantees that I will be reading the sequel when it comes out later this year. :-)

What have you been reading this week?

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