Helena Hart isn’t having the best night. Her date just ditched her, her Halloween costume bombed, and her only sympathetic ear is a dead silent partygoer in a Grim Reaper get-up. But when she falls off a balcony and he catches her with a very real skeletal hand, she realizes he may not be a party guest at all. Before she can process the near-death experience, he vanishes, leaving her to wonder if she hallucinated the whole thing.
Grim isn’t supposed to save souls. He’s supposed to reap them. And while he’s not sure why he spared Helena, he does know that if his superiors find out, he’s as good as dust—which is saying something for a guy who’s mostly bones. But keeping away from Helena is proving harder than expected—especially when she isn’t the least bit afraid of his monstrous form.
Worse, to his horror, Helena makes him feel. And for a reaper, feeling is a fate far more dangerous than death. (Synopsis courtesy of Goodreads.)
A Date with Death was so much fun! When I think of the Grim Reaper, I think scary. Unapproachable. Run! But that’s not how Grim is portrayed in this story. He might think he’s scary and unapproachable, but Helena doesn’t see that at all when she meets him for the first time. And over the course of the chapters, the reader begins to see a lot more depth to him, too. It was the quintessential opposites attract, with two completely opposite characters who end up liking each other despite their differences. And boy, are there a lot of differences!
Grim doesn’t live in the same world that Helena lives in. He collects souls for a living. Helena lives on earth and is a librarian. What could they possibly have in common? Helena allows Grim to be himself while also re-discovering his own past and how he came to be the Grim Reaper, and he has no filter, the kind of gruff personality that rubs off on the much more quiet Helena. It was a fun dynamic between the two of them. I also loved the secondary characters who make up Grim’s self-made family, even though Grim would never admit to having any kind of family.
There were some fast-paced moments pertaining to keeping Helena safe that had been a wild crazy experience, and some super steamy moments, too, which was completely unexpected but a welcome surprise. Ultimately, I loved how Grim has been deconstructed to make him more endearing, because why shouldn’t a supposed “monster” find love and romance, too? It was a definite five-star experience!
Thanks to Gallery for the book in exchange for an honest review.
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