Shelby’s Reviews > Southern Bred and Dead > Status Update

What about the ghost bartender Verity promised to go on a date with?? I figured he would pop up sometime and cause trouble. Is he just forgotten? Or is he supposed to come into play in another book?

I knew their whole fight would end in Verity not changing anything and Ellis having to make the most adjustments. And he didn't even do much.

Verity feels very unwilling to compromise. With both Frankie and Ellis. Her whole 'this is who i am so deal with it' attitude is starting to annoy me. She wants Ellis to make all the compromise and not have to change anything. I like that we are seeing growth in their relationship but i feel like this is going to 'resolve' and shes not going to have made any real changes.

"Frankie glided straight at me as if I were tap-dancing on his last nerve. “I am going to die—again—unless you shut it.”"

How is she so oblivious to the fact he is trying to warn her that other ghosts are there without outright stating it? You would think that by now she could read him. Verity is somehow both clueless and confident. It boggles my mind.

"Living with me had separated him from the old gang. He couldn’t carouse unless I sat on a bench outside knitting. He couldn’t go on runs to Chicago unless I drove him, which was one thing I refused to do."


Why does she always refuse to do things for him? He's literally trapped at her house. Verity's character has started to annoy me during the last few books in regards to how she treats Frankie.