Madison Avery Series by Kim Harrison

One of our patrons recommended that I read Kim Harrison's adult series but I wound up reading her young adult series first.  Her adult series sounds really good too but Madison just spoke to me and I ended up reading her first.  Madison's story starts out in Prom Nights from Hell.  I had really nice prom experience.  My prom date was a guy I grew up with and we went with two other couples.  We had an awesome time, unlike Madison Avery.  Madison is new to town.  She was sent to live with her dad after getting caught causing trouble one too many times.  She is at the prom with a boy, Josh, that she finds out is a pity date.  His dad works with her dad and they set the date up.  How humiliating is that?  So when Madison dumps Josh she is swept off her feet by a handsome pirate.  Did I mention the prom had a costume theme?  Anyway the handsome pirate ends up being bad news and Madison ends up dead.  The only thing keeping her somewhat alive is the amulet she steals from around the handsome pirates neck.

What you soon find out is that there are light reapers and dark reapers.  A dark reaper takes a soul before they do something evil while a light reaper tries to save the soul from the dark reaper.  Dark reapers believe in fate and light reapers believe in choice.  Madison didn't get culled by an ordinary dark reaper. She's going to be taking over management.  I really liked these books and the characters.  I am looking forward to Something Deadly This Way Comes coming out May 24th.