Book Name: Death Gets a Boyfriend
Author Name: Sophie Bonaste
Author Bio:
Sophie Bonaste is a novelist who never set out to be a
novelist. As a child, she wanted to a Broadway actress and spent her childhood
in numerous productions. But when adulthood set in and reality took over,
Sophie chose to give up the theatre for a steady paycheck and instead turned to
writing as a creative outlet. She stumbled into the M/M genre through
fanfiction and never looked back. Sophie is quite happy with her change in
artistic expression and doesn’t plan to stop writing for a long time.
A self-proclaimed nerd, Sophie is an avid fan of all things
Star Wars and Harry Potter. (Sophie is a member of the Slytherin house, for
those who were wondering.) Sophie also spends many hours watching and
re-watching nerdy television shows. When she is not obsessing over the latest
and greatest in nerdy entertainment, Sophie can be found screaming at her
television during American football games. (Go Pack Go!) Sophie currently lives
in Pennsylvania, about twenty minutes from her childhood town of The Middle of
Nowhere.
Author Contact:
Sophie loves to hear from readers! You can reach her by
e-mail at sophiebonaste@gmail.com,
on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SophieBonaste
or on Facebook as Sophie Bonaste. You can also check out updates on Sophie’s
writing and other musings on her website at sophiebonaste.blogspot.com.
Publisher: Dreamspinner
Press
Cover Artist: Christy
Caughie
Blurb(s):
Death is in a lonely business. Since the beginning
of time he’s been reaping souls then returning home to his little condo in the
sky. It’s not a bad job. There are perks. But Death would kill to meet his soul
mate, no pun intended.
Tommy Neilson is the next human slated for death.
But when he can see Death, Tommy turns his whole world upside down. Curious,
Death seeks Tommy out. The chemistry between the two is immediate and soon an
unlikely romance starts to form. While Death may not be lonely anymore, he
isn’t allowed to interact with humans. Consequently, he must make a choice:
billions of souls or the one that makes being immortal worth it.
Excerpt:
I am Death.
Well, that’s one of
my names anyway. I’m also known as the Grim Reaper, the Angel of Death, Azreal,
and the list goes on. Some people have even called me Satan, but I would like
to say right now, that’s a lie. I am not Satan. I know Satan. He’s not as bad
of a guy as you would think. Sure he can get a little violent if you get out of
hand, but as long as you stay on his good side, you’ll be fine.
And there I go
getting off track again. You’ll have to forgive me. I’m not very good at
staying focused. I guess that comes from the fact that I can jump around the
world at an alarmingly fast rate. Thankfully that’s not very hard. Well, at
least not for me. I guess, in the human population, that’s a skill many people
want for some reason. I don’t know why, though, considering how scattered it
makes your brain. It really does. That’s why I try to avoid using that skill.
Causes headaches.
Anyway, this is a
story about me. Don’t worry, though. It’s not too gruesome or anything like
that. This is a story about how I fell in love. Yes, I know that’s kind of hard
to believe. Death falling in love. Believe me, it shocked the hell out of me
too. (No pun intended.) But it’s true. After thousands of years in existence, I
finally found someone whom I wanted to spend my time with.
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Death Gets a Boyfriend
Sophie Bonaste
5 stars
“You are nothing like what the Grim
Reaper is supposed to be.”
~Thomas Neilson
I loved how this opened. It
grabbed my interest right away.
How the author
portrayed Death in this book was genius. He’s just a guy doing a job. He
dresses like us, talks like us. No skeleton in a black robe here, lol. It’s not
even a job he enjoys, truth be told. Killing people makes him uncomfortable.
Maybe part of the reason he’s uncomfortable is because he doesn’t know why some
people have to die. God makes up the list and Death carries it out. (Okay yes,
how the author portrayed God cracked me up.)
Then Death is
supposed to claim one Thomas (Tommy) Neilson. And, oh boy, this immortal’s
world is turned upside down. Death can’t take this man’s life. Even when the
time comes, Death can’t do it. He’s more than a little freaked. For the first
time ever, he fails to carry out his purpose. But more than that? Tommy can see
Death.
Concerned,
disturbed, and completely confused, Death tries to carry on with his job while
he waits for God to yell at him… but it never happens. Instead, Death finds
himself at the hospital where the man he was supposed to kill is recovering.
Unbelievably, a friendship starts.
*snicker* I
have to say I had a blast watching Death figure out he had feelings for Tommy.
The humor had me rolling in laughter, even if you stop to think about this
being about Death. And that’s the kicker. This is Death we’re talking we’re about. Nothing is as clear-cut as it
seems, and sometimes hard choices have to be made.
I laughed and
I cried. What more can a reader ask for, lol! I’d have no trouble recommending
this book.
~M
