Cassidy Blake, Book Three
Third story in the triology finds Cassidy, her ghost friend Jacob and her parents in New Orleans where her parents are working on new episode for their video ghost story series.
Of course a place like New Orleans is going to have a lot of haunted locations and ghosts. But it isn't a ghost that Cassidy runs afoul of, it an Emissary of Death, who has come to take Cassidy back to the place of the dead. She actually got a glimpse of this being at the end of the second book in the series, Tunnel of Bones, where it appeared to her as a person dressed all in black and wearing a skull mask.
Cassidy is in serious danger but fortunately a magical society in New Orleans and her friend Lara from Scotland and Jacob, of course, are there to help. But even all that help may not be enough to save her from Death's Emissary. Who is really angry that Cassidy escaped death when she nearly drowned.
I didn't care for this premise. Maybe because I'm old and haven't much time left on this earth. But lifetimes are so short. Why is Death so impatient? In a few short decades, Cassidy will be dead. Death is eternal. Even the sun will eventually die, at least that is what science tells us. In the billions of years that the universe has existed, the lifespan of a human being is virtually nothing. Death needs to chill. Cassidy will be there soon anyway. I just couldn't buy into the idea that Death was so outraged by Cassidy not drowning that it had to send an Emissary to drag her to the land of the dead. Nah.
Here is a review by Kirkus Reviews.
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