Fair Market Value by Hailey Edwards [Review]

Fair Market Value (The Body Shop #1) by Hailey Edwards
Format: paperback
Source: purchased
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Date read: April 22, 2024

The Body Shop
1. Fair Market Value - Paperback | Kindle
2. Amber Gambler
3. Midnight Auto Parts

Related Series:
(find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
The Beginner's Guide to Necromancy
1. How to Save an Undead Life

Black Hat Bureau
1. Black Hat, White Witch

The Potentate of Atlanta
1. Shadow of Doubt

Hailey Edwards
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Forgot to feed your goldfish before your untimely demise? Need to jot down a will? Say a goodbye? See the Grand Canyon? Then come visit us at The Body Shop, where unfinished business is our business.

Mary Frances Talbot—Frankie—is a necromancer, probably. Hard to say since she never met her parents. She can see the dead, talk to the dead, and a few other things that aren’t strictly legal. It’s fine. No worries. As long as she doesn’t get caught.

The whole not getting caught thing was going well until Samuel Harrow blew back into town wearing a Savannah Police Department uniform. He might be a witch, but he hates magic. He’s not a fan of Frankie either. Which explains why he’s her ex.

When Frankie’s less than legal side gigs result in dead vampires, she knows she’s in trouble. Big trouble. And that’s before Harrow offers to help. With him waving a Get Out of Jail Free card in her face, Frankie doesn’t have much choice but to accept.

But that doesn’t mean she has to forgive. She’ll certainly never forget him breaking her heart or turning her over to the police or... Yeah. They were doomed from the start. Something tells her this investigation will be too.

Thoughts on Fair Market Value: A new Hailey Edwards series set in the BGtN/BD/BHB world. YASSSSSSS. (To be fair, any new HE book would have had me excited, but throw in the world from a couple of my favorite series and I am absolutely BOUNCING with excitement.)

Our new cast of characters include Frankie (a necromancer of sorts who offers something for the masses no other necromancer offers and who genuinely doesn't even know if she's strictly a necromancer or a necromancer crossed with something else OR something else entirely thanks to her murky parentage), her siblings by choice and deed, and Samuel Harrow (the man who betrayed Frankie and shattered her trust and HOO-BOY there might be more to that whole story than Frankie knows about). Plus we have messengers, partners, ghosts who keep Frankie and her sibs in business, and, well, others.

To make a long story short, the life Frankie has carved out for her and her siblings is potentially threatened. Harrow returning to Frankie's orbit is both distracting and breaks her a little, which isn't great since there are THINGS she needs to deal with to keep her siblings safe. (I'm sorry, I keep saying "siblings" like Josie and Matty are little kids. They're not. They're fully grown individuals with magical quirks as quirky as Frankie's.) Anywho, helping Harrow figure out what's going on while trying to stay off the radar is a challenge (an probably not nearly as doable as Frankie thinks). And that's before Frankie is making friends with people in cemeteries and nearly get run down in unexpected places.

Bottom line: One book in on a new HE series and I'm already smitten! More, please!