That was so much fun. 
 So, here's the gist: Lexington Bartleby has been acting out. A lot. So, in hopes of getting her to control her temper, her parents send her off to spend a summer with her Uncle Mort on what they believe is his farm. Turns out Uncle Mort is mayor of a town called Croak, the entire population of which is Grim Reapers. And Lex is about to find out her calling. 
 Lex is surrounded by a colorful cast of characters, from her partner Driggs with whom she often butts heads, to the other Grims she meets, and even on to the ghosts who populate the afterlife - including the Wright brothers, Edgar Allen Poe and his raven Quoth, a cluster of dead Presidents, and so on. All of the characters are funny and interesting and well developed. 
 The writing is brisk and witty, full of wonderful one-liners, many of which I could not resist sharing in my status updates, so I will direct your attention down there as I am a lazy ass and don't feel like looking stuff up. 
 And within it all is a mystery: a lot of the dead people who's souls need to be collected have been dying in mysterious circumstances. Circumstances that even the system that detects deaths doesn't know. And it always knows. So Driggs, Lex, and their friends take up the task of trying to figure out. 
 And it's one hell of a reveal. 
 I had so much fun reading this, I really did. I look forward to the sequels.