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Dead to Me

Grave Talker, Book 1

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Dead to Me

By: Annie Anderson
Narrated by: Cassandra Parker
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Seeing dead people and solving their murders is Darby Adler's bread and butter.

What's not on the menu? A nosy Fed poking around her crime scenes, who seems to know a hell of a lot more than he's saying - especially about the ghosts surrounding Darby and the murderer who's desperate for her attention.

©2020 Annie Anderson (P)2025 Annie Anderson
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I can't really say much because everything is overshadow by one of the worst clichés in all fantasy stories. The cliché in question is the notion that not knowing about a problem will protect you from it. That crap is all over the whole story and nearly all challenges for the protagonist only exist because she doesn't know enough.
And even though she had in the past and has still so many opportunities to learn more it doesn't happen until it's already too late either through her own inaction or other ppl not telling her even though they know that she will need the knowledge.
For example the protagonist tells her helping ghost how worried she is because the girlfriend of her father is somehow involved in the protagonists murder case, then she shows him some clues she found and what is his answer to her problem INSTEAD of telling her exactly what is going on and where she has to be extra careful: "forget all about it, don't concern yourself with it" as if that has ever helped anyone in her position.

This made me mad, looking at the premise and the characters this could've been a good story, but for some reason I can't comprehend storytellers still to this day haven't caught on to the logic problem with this cliché that just won't die out. And this story is just another victim.

Why does this inane cliché persist

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