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The Check Your Luck Omnibus
By KS Augustin
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Sometimes life is stranger than fiction.
After the tragic death of her parents, and with nothing left tying her to the United Kingdom, Ursula Formosa returns to her homeland of Malaysia and a job with the eccentrically-named Singapore firm, “The Check Your Luck Agency”.
What begins as an attempt to stave off boredom turns into a new way of life as the scales drop from Ursula’s eyes and she tentatively enters a realm that contains vengeful ghosts, toyol, demons, pontianak and curses, not to mention old-fashioned fraud and larceny. As she befriendsbomohs, mediums and a young woman already centuries old, Ursula’s ideas of friendship expand into a fresh view of the world that surrounds her.
But she isn’t going to be left to ease into things. A criminal mastermind, who is also a powerful sorcerer, is gathering mythical creatures to help him possess every living soul in Singapore, and he isn’t about to let the members of The Check Your Luck Agency stand in his way!
(This omnibus edition contains: The Check Your Luck Agency, Return of the Hantu, Wrath of the Harimau, Night of the Pontianak, and Five Card Draw, Jinn Are High, as well as an Afterword and an extensive Glossary.)
After the tragic death of her parents, and with nothing left tying her to the United Kingdom, Ursula Formosa returns to her homeland of Malaysia and a job with the eccentrically-named Singapore firm, “The Check Your Luck Agency”.
What begins as an attempt to stave off boredom turns into a new way of life as the scales drop from Ursula’s eyes and she tentatively enters a realm that contains vengeful ghosts, toyol, demons, pontianak and curses, not to mention old-fashioned fraud and larceny. As she befriendsbomohs, mediums and a young woman already centuries old, Ursula’s ideas of friendship expand into a fresh view of the world that surrounds her.
But she isn’t going to be left to ease into things. A criminal mastermind, who is also a powerful sorcerer, is gathering mythical creatures to help him possess every living soul in Singapore, and he isn’t about to let the members of The Check Your Luck Agency stand in his way!
(This omnibus edition contains: The Check Your Luck Agency, Return of the Hantu, Wrath of the Harimau, Night of the Pontianak, and Five Card Draw, Jinn Are High, as well as an Afterword and an extensive Glossary.)
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I had to think about this a while before I could even write this review. It was difficult to formulate what to say.The synopsis is that Ursula works for the Check Your Luck Agency, set in Singapore. The culture is very superstitious and the agency bills itself as investigators of the paranormal when strange things happen to others. In the six months Ursula has worked for them, Ursula hasn't found anything caused by the paranormal; greed, scams, etc are always uncovered. Ursula tells herself and anyone who will listen that she doesn't believe in ghosts or anything having to do with the paranormal.I found the first half of the book to be interesting due to the culture, although choppy as the storytelling jumps all over the place to give us background information. Halfway through the book we learn that Ursula is gifted and that she can see and feel ghosts and energy, but prefers to deny it, even to herself. And at this point the story direction takes a drastic change. Unfortunately, it really doesn't go anywhere other than accepting her gift. The ending is abrupt.Set in Singapore and Malaysia, we get background on a variety of things with a great deal of description. That was the best part of the story. But the descriptions of buildings were starting to get old in the second half. I couldn't connect with Ursula and never understood why she was in denial or felt being a couple of years older than a guy was too old for him.Written in UK English, an American reader might stumble a little by phrasing and spelling. But not for long and it doesn't cause a huge distraction to the story. Received a free copy to review via BookRooster.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When you work in Singapore, a lot of friends and business associates believe in Luck. Good luck, bad luck, luck of all kinds is sent you by spirits and affects how your life runs.Ursula Formosa, formerly of the UK but born in Asia; has skipped to Malay. She leaves behind no love life, deceased parents and has enough to “get by”. But she didn’t like to be idle so picks up a job from Fiona Li at the Check Your Luck Agency. Problems with a lease? Lover dumps you cold? Things that go bump in the night? Ursula is on it for you! She actually can see things that you and I can’t but has tried her entire life to ignore them. Seems as though her boss and a co-worker knows she can see things but they don’t discuss it. Fiona does, however; put Ursula into a rather odd situation as co-partner of a new television show called “Hunting Hantu”. “Ghost Hunters.” Her anchor in this endeavor is a much-sought after male model named Shariff Kadir. Once she meets him, she knows why everyone wants him – she does, too!I believe this short novel is the beginning of something great and hope I get to review the rest of the stories as well. This is a great afternoon’s pleasure – enjoy!
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