Death's Daughter - Amber Benson

Calliope Reaper - Jones just wants to be normal, to do her crappy assistants job and enjoy life in New York. Sadly Death has other plans. Her father has been kidnapped and if she doesn't step into Death's place then her whole family will be stripped of it's immortality and no one will investigate his disappearance.

There isn't much about this novel that hasn't either been seen in other (urban) fantasy novels somewhere but that's not neccessarily a critisicm. I'm also not entirely sure whether there is something a little Buffy about the tone or whether it's just that I will always think of Amber Benson as Tara from the show. Regardless this isn't a shining star amongst the genre, but it's pretty well written, entertaining and sets an interesting premise for a series. I hope it will continue and that Amber will get stronger as a writer over the course of the books because it's a world worth revisiting and I like the characters. Callie was starting to develop into someone pretty interesting by the end of the book and some of the other characters, particularly Kali the goddess made for a good dynamic.

This was an extremely easy read, chomped through happily in one evening and is worth picking up for fans of the genre. I did almost cry at one point too so it's not entirely fluffy.