The Accidental Gatekeeper

The Accidental Gatekeeper: The Accidental Midlife Trilogy Book 1 by Carla Rehse BooksGoSocial

Everly Popa is a middle-aged mom of one who has informed the FBI on her husband and, for safety for herself and daughter, has returned to her hometown, Crossing Shadows. This town isn’t the usual sort of home town, but a border between other worlds and the earthly one. And Everly is from one of three families who are marked and who alternately act as gatekeepers between the worlds in order to keep the balance. Currently, it’s another family that is slated to take over the job but when Everly arrives it seems all hell has broken loose (almost literally) and the next candidate for the job has disappeared just as the current gatekeeper dies. Everly is then appointed temporary gatekeeper and thrown in the deep end with no training.

Along the way, there are people dying, rules being broken, and connections between old friends and acquaintances being reformed. Not to mention a ghost that helps out and a bunch of angels that are rendered nearly helpless by the town being isolated from the universe.

This is another one of the new trends of books featuring a middle-aged woman and the paranormal. It’s typically where life is upended and chaos ensures. There are quite a few humorous moments to help the story along and, of course, the heroine gets the job done, even though it isn’t in the most logical way possible. I guess there’d be no story in that case.

It’s a fun book if you don’t get too caught up in the many details of the story and try to make too much sense of it. Overall I give this a solid three stars.

I’d like to thank Netgalley and BooksGoSocial for providing an advanced reader copy for free. I have voluntarily provided this review.