Okay, listen. I haven't read any of Sally Thorne's  other books and I think it was a mistake to do this one first. I acknowledge that.

That said, for me life is too short to spend more time on this book, and I am DNFing at 25%. (If I had finished I have no doubt it would be less than a star...) The tone of this is ALL over the place and completely incongruous. The dialogue is by turns stilted and stiff or too modern and casual. The first 10% felt like being at a sleepover as a tween girl and trying to impress other tween girls by talking about cock a lot: full of a bunch of hot air.

Angelika is COMPLETELY insufferable. She's angry that the man she brought back to life without his consent might want some time away to clear his head. She's petulant that the man can forgive her brother Victor for his role in his resurrection but not her. Beyond the story just not making sense - he has no memories but somehow has a "quick mind" to make up lies when they go back to the morgue to ask questions about his body's origin - he has no personality and yet Angelika falls in love with him immediately. I'm sure that has nothing to do with his large member and instant tumescence at seeing her when he awakens from death. Or the fact that she literally gave him life, but with no examination of the complexities or weirdness there.

The pitch really intrigued me and I think with a more thoughtful writer this could've been an interesting conversation about consent and forgiveness, but for me, Tborne was entirely too cavalier with the idea and not in a way that was fun for me. Trying to sidestep the consent issue by having Angelika insist, "I asked your dead corpse if you wanted to come back and I could SENSE that you said yes" and then having the man agree? Absolutely not.

I'm sure there is an audience for this, who have more ability to suspend disbelief in this instance than I, but it's not a good fit for my wee bookstore.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for an arc in exchange for an honest review.