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Don't get me wrong. For the most part, I enjoyed Spirit and Dust. I liked the whole tie in with history and some scenes were seriously straight out of the horror version of Night at the Museum (but, really, isn't that movie kind of freaky anyway?).

Rosemary Clement-Moore is a fantastic writer, but I think I may have been a little too excited and too enamored with the idea of this being an offshoot of her previous novel, Texas Gothic (which I loved).

Aside from sharing a last name, Spirit and Dust's Daisy Goodnight has very little in common with her cousins, Amy and Phin, from Texas Gothic. Amy and Phin were unique and quirky, characters I hadn't seen before. Daisy, well, she can communicate with dead people and uses her ability to help solve murders. Where have I read that plotline a billion times before?

Really, though, Daisy had a promising start with, "I like to pretend I'm all Daisy Goodnight, kick-ass teen psychic when really most of the time I'm all Please don't let me puke in front of the FBI." I laughed and thought, "I'm really going to like this girl." I mean, sure she's a little cliché and, yeah, it's a little much that the government pulls her out of school and flies her across the country to solve a murder and kidnapping like no one else could do it (she's really not that special), but at least she has a sense of humor.

But when the action begins, Daisy's personality just seems to wane. She talks a lot about how amazing her talents are and how coveted she is, yet she doesn't seem all that amazeballs. Aside from communicating with the dead (which, okay, is quite an ability, but I've seen more talented mediums...in other books), she is kind of dense. Daisy is a contradiction, but not in a good way. She claims to be an "old soul" and acts like she's so jaded, but she's really just like any other emo teenager who thinks the world doesn't get them. Move on.

The plot, on the other hand, was pretty decent. I loved how Clement-Moore tied in theology, history, archeology, and probably a few other things that end in "y" that I can't think of right now. I liked how Daisy was able to tap into her own genealogy to help her along (although it was a little convenient that her ancestors would happen to have intimate experience with the subject of her current predicament).

After a healthy dose of Suspension of Disbelief pills, it was all pretty brilliant.

And the big "show down" between good and evil at the end? Well, it was pretty badass and there were quite a few surprises that I didn't see coming.


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Spirit and Dust Rosemary ClementMoore Books Reviews

I love the quirky fun sense of humor of the story and characters that Rosemary puts into her books. Always looking forward to the next one.

I like the fact that Rosemary is able to keep the plot moving along without her characters needing to make stupid mistakes in order to cause more conflict (a personal pet peeve of mine, and the sign of a bad writer).

Great job again Rosemary! Can't wait for whatever you put out next!
Another great Goodnight book! It took me a couple chapters to draw that conclusion, because it's been so long since I read Texas Gothic. But I am very pleased to be back in their world! The story is fresh and exciting, with history, romance, mystery, and heartbreak. I really hope Clement-Moore continue to write in the Goodnight world, or even to have us follow Daisy again!
One of my favorite authors to read and she didn't disappoint me. Also this book definitely needs to be made into a movie I hope the author considers doing that.
After reading TEXAS GOTHIC, I immediately ordered the companion novel, SPIRIT AND DUST. This one didn’t center on Amy or Phin, but on their younger cousin (who makes an appearance in the first novel), Daisy, who has an ability to speak to the dead and uses that gift to help the police with cold cases. She ends up asked to help the FBI with an active murder/kidnapping, and from then on things go sideways hard. We end up with a crime boss who’s more than willing to turn magic to his own ends, a cross country road trip, and Egyptian magic threading through all the action. Definitely a more action/thriller feel to it than the southern gothic ghost story of the first book, but still one I enjoyed the hell out of.
"I was not supposed to end up freezing my ass off in a remake of Harry Potter meets The Italian Job by way of Fargo."

Texas Gothic was so interesting that I decided to read more about a different member of the Goodnight family, Daisy Goodnight. I really liked the idea of a family peppered with psychics, mediums, kitchen witches and other paranormal oddities. It started out pretty strong but at the end turned a little bit too much into a Night at the Museum meets The Mummy for my taste.

Daisy is a teenage, 17 almost 18 year old, physic who helps the FBI with murder cases since she can interact with dead people or remnants of spirits. After the kidnapping of a girl and the murder her bodyguard Daisy heads off to help with the investigation only to be kidnapped herself. Now she is in a time crunch to find an ancient object in order to save the kidnapped girl. I really liked Daisy as a character and this is a fun book, had I not been expecting it to go a different way I might have enjoyed it more.

I liked the sweet romance between Daisy and Carson, our dark and mysterious magical boy, it was very low key and didn't take up too much space in the story. I liked the treasure hunt aspect of the story trying to figure out what the artifact was and how to get to it first. As characters Daisy and Carson have a fun flirty banter going on that adds levity to the story. They are definitely the part of the book I liked the most.

But.....then it gets whacky, there was almost too much paranormal happening all at once. The last 20% of the book was a little over the top. Sometimes I don't care when that happens because I like the ridiculous ride so much but I never fully bought into it. It was hard for me to envision everything that was supposed to be happening because in my head all I saw was Night at the Museum.

Texas Gothic was a lot more of a paranormal mystery with believable magic, Spirit and Dust has more action but way less believability. It just wasn't what I was expecting. I do hope that Rosemary Clement might revisit the Goodnight family in the future I would love to read a story where Phin was the main character.

The writing is still fun and the story progresses at a good pace. If extreme paranormal is your thing than this will probably still be a great read for you but, if you like a modicum believability in your magic maybe not so much.
Don't get me wrong. For the most part, I enjoyed Spirit and Dust. I liked the whole tie in with history and some scenes were seriously straight out of the horror version of Night at the Museum (but, really, isn't that movie kind of freaky anyway?).

Rosemary Clement-Moore is a fantastic writer, but I think I may have been a little too excited and too enamored with the idea of this being an offshoot of her previous novel, Texas Gothic (which I loved).

Aside from sharing a last name, Spirit and Dust's Daisy Goodnight has very little in common with her cousins, Amy and Phin, from Texas Gothic. Amy and Phin were unique and quirky, characters I hadn't seen before. Daisy, well, she can communicate with dead people and uses her ability to help solve murders. Where have I read that plotline a billion times before?

Really, though, Daisy had a promising start with, "I like to pretend I'm all Daisy Goodnight, kick-ass teen psychic when really most of the time I'm all Please don't let me puke in front of the FBI." I laughed and thought, "I'm really going to like this girl." I mean, sure she's a little cliché and, yeah, it's a little much that the government pulls her out of school and flies her across the country to solve a murder and kidnapping like no one else could do it (she's really not that special), but at least she has a sense of humor.

But when the action begins, Daisy's personality just seems to wane. She talks a lot about how amazing her talents are and how coveted she is, yet she doesn't seem all that amazeballs. Aside from communicating with the dead (which, okay, is quite an ability, but I've seen more talented mediums...in other books), she is kind of dense. Daisy is a contradiction, but not in a good way. She claims to be an "old soul" and acts like she's so jaded, but she's really just like any other emo teenager who thinks the world doesn't get them. Move on.

The plot, on the other hand, was pretty decent. I loved how Clement-Moore tied in theology, history, archeology, and probably a few other things that end in "y" that I can't think of right now. I liked how Daisy was able to tap into her own genealogy to help her along (although it was a little convenient that her ancestors would happen to have intimate experience with the subject of her current predicament).

After a healthy dose of Suspension of Disbelief pills, it was all pretty brilliant.

And the big "show down" between good and evil at the end? Well, it was pretty badass and there were quite a few surprises that I didn't see coming.