Dead Sexy

by Lulu M. Sylvian

Peter wants to fix his life, problem is: he’s dead. Life doesn’t give you do-overs, neither does the afterlife.

Believe in love after life.

Medical illustrator Gillian Denver has a unique talent, and it’s not her ability to depict the systems of the body accurately and artistically. She can talk to spirits, only she doesn’t realize it.

Peter Keith, a one-time TV sitcom star whose career dissolved from A-lister hunk, to out of shape, straight-to-cable-movie D-lister has a problem. Peter regrets decisions he made in his life, and would like a do-over. He convinces Gillian to help him. One little problem, Peter is dead.

Thinking it’s her over active imagination causing her reoccurring dreams about Peter to spill into daylight hours, Gillian finds herself talking to him while she works. Together they begin to recreate Peter’s life by writing a book the way he wishes things had worked out. Gillian is not fully convinced that Peter is anything more than something she made up, a glorified imaginary friend, a new muse.

Gillian’s feelings for Peter complicate her relationships with the living. She is afraid the love she has for Peter will never be enough because she cannot give him what he really needs, a resolution to the life he wasn’t ready to leave.

Genres: Romance, Paranormal, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance

244 pages, ebook

Published May 28, 2020

About the author

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Lulu writes sexy hot paranormal and ridiculous contemporary romances. She loves strong men who can dance and love and fight. No alphaholes allowed.

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Bio-engineered to be the only redhead in a generation of blonds, Lulu feels that “aliens” may actually be the best answer for a lifetime of being asked, “Where did you get that red hair from?”

Lulu cannot ride a horse, hula hoop, or play roller derby (not from lack of trying), but she can make pictures. Encouraged to make those pictures out of words Lulu began writing just to see what would happen. Words happened, so many words.

Lulu embraces the crazy that comes with that one little genetic mutation and attempts to live up to the reputation of being a redhead.

Reviews

[Zoe · Rating 5 out of 5]

A refreshing PNR that had me laughing out loud and sympathising with the main character (MC). I confess I didn’t know what to expect when I picked up this book, what I didn’t expect was to love the sweet storyline that Sylvian created.

Gillian has always been in touch with the spirit side, but she has always brush it off. It wasn’t until B-sitcom star Peter Keith appears one day, and the rest I have to say is history.

The story was spritely, I felt I got to understand the MC’s personalities and was able to feel connect in someway. The supporting characters were sassy and sweet, I particularly loved Gillian’s roommate Mike. I wish I could have a roomy like that!

Now I am a PNR enthusiast, so I felt it was a little light on supernatural or Paranormal. But that is just me, I am used to different universes. However, this is still PNR, a little ghost action should never be snubbed.

Overall, a great novel. So if you are in the market for a steamy ghost PNR then this is your cup of tea!

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[Darla Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gillian Denver is a medical illustrator with a gift ~ she can see and speak to spirits. However, she doesn't realize just how advanced her gift really is. When the ghost of Peter Keith shows up, she originally believes that he's a figment of her imagination. Peter is a former TV star who recently passed away and is unhappy with how his life turned out. Gillian is giving him a do over as she writes a book with the way he thinks his life should have been. Gillian thinks that Peter is her muse but as her feelings for him grow, she's not sure how things will ever work out.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review and I honestly loved it. There were a few mistakes but not enough to take away from the story. The storyline was great and the book was well-written with wonderful characters you'll enjoy getting to know. It was a fabulous ghost story and had quite a twist at the end. I was captured from the beginning and kept hooked until the end. I'm really looking forward to the next book in the series. I highly recommend this one.

[Paige Morris · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book beyond words. I have to say it is unlike any book I've ever read and I've read a lot. I went into this book with zero expectation aside from knowing I'd enjoy it because I really like the author.

Peter Keith was a teen actor who died from a drug overdose at 56. Gilian met him just after he passed. The two of them form a friendship and he becomes her muse, helping her craft a story, his story. The two of them spend time together while she works, while she sleeps. After her relationship falls apart what else will he be?

As I said I read a lot. To be honest most books these days don't surprise me or catch me off guard. This one did. I had the pleasure of reading an advanced copy of this for review and it was well worth it. I didn't really know a lot going in and so I'm going to keep it that way in my review for the readers.

Just read it. You won't regret it. Peter and Gil are great fun to spend time with and the book is well written.

[Savannah Kade · Rating 5 out of 5]

The premise here is so awesome... Think Ghost meets boy bands.
The writing is superb and the characters are so well written you won't be able to put it down.
A series to die for!

[Ingrid Vermeulen-Quakernaat · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great concept! A woman who does not realize that she sees ghosts and communicates with them like the cats she sees and the crows flying by. Then when the ghost of a deceased actor comes into her dreams she takes it as it is. Slowly but surely their relationship changes and in her dreams she can touch him ..... and more, so much more!
A great story that shows a development at Gillian outside of Peter's mind. The story offers so much more than the ghost that takes a leading role to develop her talents from illustrator to drawing novels based on Peter as she sees him. The denouement, in one word MAGNIFICENT

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Denise · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a NON-SPOILER REVIEW. Dead Sexy by Lulu M. Sylvian is a cute stand alone story. While I thought it started a little slow, the story does pick up and become quite entertaining. There are a lot of LOL moments interspersed with emotional highs and lows, but they work because of the character development and their backgrounds. I absolutely loved that Ms. Sylvian isn't afraid to give her characters some hard situations to overcome. Sweet and sexy (definitely a Mature Readers Only read), this reads quicker than you would think. A fun anytime read.

This honest and voluntary review was made possible by reading a copy through Booksprout.

[Elizabeth McDaniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gillian is a very emotional woman who was in love with a child star who died and now his ghost is coming to her in her dreams. She already has pet cat ghosts among other animal ghosts that she can see. Her and her boyfriend are beginning to separate from each other. Gillian decides to write a book about the life of Peter Keith in a different light. Gillian becomes so obsessed with him and the story she’s writing as he comes to her even during the day. Then his visits begin to fade altogether, destroying Gillian This interesting and fun book ends with a good twist.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Cheryl_cajun · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you for the ARC read, I voluntarily give this book an honest review. Gillian talks to spirits or more to the point one spirit Peter. Years of thinking it was just her imagetion, as she gets older she realises the truth. When he boyfriend betrays her with another woman and her job, Peter was the only one she could rely on with her emotions. But can loving a ghost have a happy ending? When all you can do is talk, Peter comes to her in dreams. This was an amazing romance of spiritual love. A great funny sweet read with a surprise twist at the end that you will love.

[Helen Gray · Rating 5 out of 5]

Peter Keith is an aging ex teen heart throb who dies in his fifties. He is unhappy with the way his life turned out due to poor choices but he is dead he cant change it! So he enlists the help of Gillian to give him a do-over in the form of re writing his life as a book. It was a fun read and is certainly a very original idea. This is a new author to me but I was so impressed I am considering buying book two (different characters and story). Well worth a read

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Caroline Doig · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lulu M. Sylvian is a new author to me and I enjoyed this story immensely it’s a great read very chuckle worthy and it surprised me. Gillian can talk to spirits but she thinks that she is going nuts, Peter was a successful actor but he died accidentally of an overdose he comes to Gillian at first to her in her dreams then he gets Gillian to write a book a sort of do- over with the way he wanted his life to turn out but Gillian doesn’t know if Peter is real or not and I will let you find the rest out for yourself. This is a great read and I recommend this book.

[Trinitysrain · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have not read a book in such a time that has pulled me in so emotionally.
The tragedy and confusion of Peter was so well written. The author envied such feelings of despair.
Gil wavered s bit too much with am I crazy or not. The whole experience as she wrote her novel and the changes she made were very interesting.
The ending seriously made me tear up.
Beautiful

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Brenda Moser · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an entertaining story with strong characters and a sweet and sexy ghostly romance. The author does a great job developing the story and pulls you in with all the emotions and sensual scenes. I enjoyed the twist at the end and reading this story. I would recommend this book.

I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book. All opinions in this review are my own and freely given.

[SEng · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this fun story of Gillian and Peter. He’s a ghost that wants a do-over of his life. Gillian is contacted by him to help only she doesn’t realize he’s a ghost. This had a few twists and was just a joy to read. I loved how the story came together in the end. I received an arc of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Tinna Edna · Rating 4 out of 5]

A hilarious book about a dead actor, Peter, who haunts Gillian . Gillian goes through self discovery before they begin to have a relationship with Peter after having strange dreams. Great paranormal love story.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Whitney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting concept. I haven’t read a book like this before. It unique and the story stays with you

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Erin Clancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first book in this series and I fell in love with them. Gorgeous cover was an immediate draw. Cool plot twist. Great characters. Beautiful imagery.

[Lulu Sylvian]

Ever have such an amazing dream you talked about on social media?
That's what Gill did, not realizing it was the start of a relationship that would change her life:

I will never forget the details of meeting Peter Keith. The dream was sparkly and shiny. He was not. He wore tight, faded jeans and a dark shirt with the sleeves pushed up, and a black leather vest. His straight blonde hair parted in the middle and slightly feathered from the front toward the longer, ubiquitous mullet of the early nineteen-nineties in the back. He was clearly not part of the dream. He didn’t fit in.
He looked right at me with those big brown eyes. They were full of pain. After I woke up, Peter and those eyes stuck with me all day.
I remembered meeting him so profoundly, I felt obliged to comment the following morning on my social media.
Weird dream with Peter Keith last night, the post read.
Okay, I admit, I feel obliged to comment about most things on social media. I’m not a total narcissist, I’m just a child of the times. While I don’t post pictures of every meal I eat, and I may not post daily selfies, the habit of the over-share has been a long time in the making.
Someone commented, Wasn’t he the Trouble Trouble guy?
I had such a crush on him. Didn’t you? I responded to this comment because I did have a little crush on him when I was about five. It didn’t last long and then I moved on and fell deeply in love with the color sparkly-purple. It had to be sparkly and purple, or it wasn’t true love. To this day, purple is my go-to color.
So, I shared my dream vision with the internet. I’m kind of glad I did. It gives me a date that I can go back, and see and know, I met Peter Keith, TV hottie and teenybopper magazine favorite about six months after he died.

******
Dead Sexy is a second chance romance with a heavy Heaven Can Wait twist.

“This is an entertaining story with strong characters and a sweet and sexy ghostly romance.”

“I have not read a book in such a time that has pulled me in so emotionally.”

“This book was a blast! The author had me at deceased 80's "it" actor turned ghost, and the story lived up to my very high expectations!”

Believe in love after life.

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[Angel Graham · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF at 10%. I tried, I did but just no. She's dating a man and in lust with a dead man/ghost. It just hit a point where it's too weird for me.

[Kara · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 rounding up for HEA

[Chris Boehm · Rating 1 out of 5]

Gross. Pulled put hair on the shower wall sends you messages? 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

[Sandy · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really wanted to love this book based on the description, but the cover is the most interesting aspect of the book. The author herself summarized the book perfectly in Chapter 15, “It was a series of hot, wet dreams and very little else.”

The lead female character, Gillian, is written as being very mentally unstable at times, crying most of her waking hours, including at her job, where she's a highly paid professional. She frequently questions if she's awake or dreaming, and sometimes has difficultly distinguishing between the two. She claims to have ghosts following her: 2 cats, a dolphin/manatee, a crow, and the lead male character, Peter, who died almost a year earlier. Gillian has a boyfriend of three years who is becoming more and more distant.

Peter was a very successful child actor who struggled to gain lead action roles of notoriety as an adult, and died from an accidental mix of pain meds for a back injury. He first comes to Gillian in her dreams, seemingly as a dream. Then he comes to her daily in her office at work and they communicate telepathically. Gillian learns from Peter that her boyfriend is cheating on her and she dumps him. Peter doesn't want Gillian to see other men. He consciously takes her to a dream plane nearly every night where they have hot sex. 60% into the book and the author still has Gillian questioning if her ghost, Peter, is real in spite of all her interaction with him and all that she's already told us about him. There is a great deal of this kind of circling around a past topic to fill the pages.

Gillian is writing a book that is basically a do-over wish list of Peter's life in which he has children and a happy family life. She's obsessed with the writing and she and Peter collaborate on the story, for a while. She keeps insisting on writing him as a were-tiger and despite the fact that he clearly says no to that concept, she keeps needling the idea. I found this really immature of her character and irritating, more circling a past topic to fill the pages.

Peter becomes as controlling as the boyfriend was, but I don't believe the author understands that's how she's writing him. Gillian cannot summon Peter whenever she wants, she has to wait for him to appear, and she pouts about this a lot, more circling around a past topic to fill the pages. Peter is appearing less and less often. Then he's gone...for good. There's a twist at the end of the story that I won't give away.

This overall concept could have been spectacular. The author frequently displays very immature and under developed writing skills: use of 'Duh', and extreme number of repetitions of the same useless info to fill the pages, vulgarity and foul language. I read one or two books every day in nearly all genre, so I've read many, many well written books. It appears this author wants to write mild erotica, “I sketched out a pornographic sex scene”, “I wouldn't have any problems illustrating an adult graphic novel, with all the sexy details” (those scenes are fairly well written) and attempts to surround it with a poorly written story.

There are many editing errors: incorrect choice of homophonic words, missing words, extra words, and lack of punctuation that interrupt the continuity of the read. I struggled to finish this and only did so to be able to write a review based on the entire book. I wanted to learn what the interesting twist at the end of the story was; however, it could not redeem this book. I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

[Sandy · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really wanted to love this book based on the description, but the cover is the most interesting aspect of the book. The author herself summarized the book perfectly in Chapter 15, “It was a series of hot, wet dreams and very little else.”

The lead female character, Gillian, is written as being very mentally unstable at times, crying most of her waking hours, including at her job, where she's a highly paid professional. She frequently questions if she's awake or dreaming, and sometimes has difficultly distinguishing between the two. She claims to have ghosts following her: 2 cats, a dolphin/manatee, a crow, and the lead male character, Peter, who died almost a year earlier. Gillian has a boyfriend of three years who is becoming more and more distant.

Peter was a very successful child actor who struggled to gain lead action roles of notoriety as an adult, and died from an accidental mix of pain meds for a back injury. He first comes to Gillian in her dreams, seemingly as a dream. Then he comes to her daily in her office at work and they communicate telepathically. Gillian learns from Peter that her boyfriend is cheating on her and she dumps him. Peter doesn't want Gillian to see other men. He consciously takes her to a dream plane nearly every night where they have hot sex. 60% into the book and the author still has Gillian questioning if her ghost, Peter, is real in spite of all her interaction with him and all that she's already told us about him. There is a great deal of this kind of circling around a past topic to fill the pages.

Gillian is writing a book that is basically a do-over wish list of Peter's life in which he has children and a happy family life. She's obsessed with the writing and she and Peter collaborate on the story, for a while. She keeps insisting on writing him as a were-tiger and despite the fact that he clearly says no to that concept, she keeps needling the idea. I found this really immature of her character and irritating, more circling a past topic to fill the pages.

Peter becomes as controlling as the boyfriend was, but I don't believe the author understands that's how she's writing him. Gillian cannot summon Peter whenever she wants, she has to wait for him to appear, and she pouts about this a lot, more circling around a past topic to fill the pages. Peter is appearing less and less often. Then he's gone...for good. There's a twist at the end of the story that I won't give away.

This overall concept could have been spectacular. The author frequently displays very immature and under developed writing skills: use of 'Duh', and an extreme number of repetitions of the same useless info to fill the pages, vulgarity and foul language. I read one or two books every day in nearly all genre, so I've read many, many well written books. It appears this author wants to write mild erotica, “I sketched out a pornographic sex scene”, “I wouldn't have any problems illustrating an adult graphic novel, with all the sexy details” (those scenes are fairly well written) and attempts to surround it with a poorly written story.

There are many editing errors: incorrect choice of homophonic words, missing words, extra words, and lack of punctuation that interrupt the continuity of the read. I struggled to finish this and only did so to be able to write a review based on the entire book. I wanted to learn what the interesting twist at the end of the story was; however, it could not redeem this book. I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actual rating: 3.5 / 5 star

I had an open mind going into this book, which is of a genre I never explored before. It’s intimidating because I might end up not liking it. This book started off quite not convincing. The story doesn’t have lots of explanations for many things and I am all about strong world building with explanations, especially for fantasy and paranormal stuff. However, the story did pick up pretty fast. The pacing was great and I immediately fell into the main character, Gillian’s fantasy world and her unique abilities of being able to see ‘things’.

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