Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door

 January 20th, 2024

Rate: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/ 🤣🤣🤣🤣

"Life is an Adventure to be lived, not a series of repetitive days to survive."

"Was it weird that she was terrified and turned on at the same time? Could Nick fight off an intruder if most of his blood was in his pants?"

"She saved his life, then saved him a taco. If this wasn't love, he knew jack shit about romance."

 Lucy Score, you have enchanted me once again! I am in LOVE with another series, and I now have a new book boyfriend to add to the list! Some-where I can see my husband rolling his eyes at that! Talk about a great book after a few let downs! I needed this book like you would not believe!! And now? Now I am invested in this damn series! But here we go! Review time!! Let's get into it!!

 We are introduced to Riley Thorn, who is really not living her best life at all. It seems, when we are introduced to her, she is down on her luck, newly divorced woman, who just found out that her ex-husband is remarrying, this time to a blonde bimbo who probably can't spell CAT. She works at this dead-end job, because she got her ass handed to her in her divorce and then on top of being humiliated, she now has to pay her ex-husband what I can only assume is alimony. And she didn't even do a damn thing wrong! How's that for a story starter!!

To make matters worse the only place she can afford to live in, is a dilapidated mansion full of senior citizens whom Riley has to pretend are her relatives if anyone asks. Oh, did I fail to mention that Riley is a clairvoyant? oh yeah! Way for me to bury the lead, right? Hahaha. My bad.

But it not like Riley embraces her gift, she actually shuns it. She doesn't want visions at all. What Riley wants is a normal life, and in her hippie family, wanting to be normal in a family full of Clairvoyants makes Riley the black sheep (especially in her grandmother's eyes but we will get to that later). Here Riley is trying to keep her head above water and work her way out of debt and keep her mind off her ex-husband, when she gets a knock on her door. Hello, Nick Santiago! Arroooga!! This man is sex on a stick, and he's got dimples to match?! Sign me up, I'm clearly in love! Nick Santiago presents himself as a money collector for girl scout cookies. (Could you even imagine a man like that, as a den mother? Neither can I!) 

Nick is looking for Riley's neighbor, the old, perverted Dickie Frick. Not believing that Nick is who he says he is but is curious to know why Nick is trying to find him, Riley is in the middle of telling him to come back Thursday when she falls into a vision. A vision of an ugly ass comforter and lava lamp and a very naked Nick. Nick who can see that Riley is no longer with the conversation, pulls her out of her vision and back into reality. Trying to recover from the vision with some dignity intact, she manages to tell Nick, Dickie Fricks schedule and to come back. Needless to say, by the end of that conversation both Nick and Riley are interested in the other. 

Riley goes back to her dead-end job the next day and has an unordinary day. She comes home with tacos and is walking up the stairs of the mansion to her room when BAM! She's hit with another vision, and this time it's not of Nick. Of all people she has a vision about it is her neighbor Dickie Frick. In the vision Dickie is brutally murdered, and the murderer walks out of the house without being caught. More than slightly alarmed that her visions now involve Murder, Riley goes to the police to warn them that someone is going to kill her neighbor, but the police don't believe her, and they do nothing. Riley then warns Dickie herself, and even he doesn't believe her and carries on.  

This book is a wild ride! Filled with steamy kisses, crazy vigilantes and old crazy bad ass senior citizens, a lion dog, a cow and a spiritual guidance counselor. Yeah, not even I could make this up! This first installment of the Riley Thorn Series is the best of the best! Think Stephanie Plum goes Clairvoyant! It took me so long to read only because I had to keep putting it down to do things around the house, but it was well worth the time and effort it took to complete!!