Name: Doesn't She Look Natural?
ISBN: 9781414311692

Angela Elwell Hunt

When Jennifer Graham, a divorced, unemployed single mom forced to live with her mother, inherits a funeral home in a small Florida town, she discovers a rewarding career that teaches her far more about life than death.

Doesn't She Look Natural?

Jeni Enjaian

While I wasn't as captivated by the book as I was the first time around, I still enjoyed it and the way Hunt told the story, creating engaging, believable characters even though an event at the end carries a touch of deus ex machina. This book and the remainder of the series survive round two of the purge from my personal collection.

A review from my old blog...

Finally reading this book after having read about almost every part of the process on Mrs. Hunt's blog was quite enjoyable. I saw how different points she mentioned fit into the overall story.

Like usual Mrs. Hunt does not fail to please. She changes between first person scenes narrated by the main character Jennifer and several other third person scenes most of which are seen through the point of Joella, Jennifer's mother.

This book deals with many issues.. at least one of which touches close to my life... and deals with them in such a way that I can actually understand how being a mortician is not as morbid as it may seem. I honestly couldn't believe it when at the end I understood how taking care of a dead body can be such a ministry to the living.

I would tell more about the plot but I really can't without giving away spoilers that would ruin a first time read.

I loved this book and am amazed that I have yet to read an Angela Hunt book that I do not thoroughly enjoy.

Doesn't She Look Natural?

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