The Accidental Medium

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As I have been getting more and more into the supernatural, tarot and spirituality lately I absolutely loved that element to the book too of course! I still adored Tanz, the books central character - she is so real and so relatable - flaws and all!

Tanz is an actress and also an accidental medium - she learned by chance that she can communicate with the dead and this has made her life very interesting indeed. Actress/medium, ghostbuster, intuitive, humour and the human touch. I cried when I read Caroline’s leaving and George. You also can’t help but feel for Tanz as she’s torn between her old and new ways of life. I’d recommend you take yourself off and enjoy the two books out so far. I loved her new and old friends. Frank I want to hug. These are different, fun and so full of wit I recommend them highly. This is a book full of heart and how life can change, be taken away, or just become massively different whatever we want. I’d read it with a box of tissues and whatever your favourite drink is by your side, just for emotional support. Firstly I love the cover! I love how it perfectly captures the main protagonist! Badass gin drinking medium! As someone rather partial to the Irish, I adored the relationship Tanz developed with the barman, Pat. I won't spoil anything, but I did wish we had more of their connection. I know the book isn't a love story in any way, shape or form but hey, the sex sounded pretty thrilling to me and I'd have loved a bit more.. because I'm clearly into voyeurism. Not.I enjoyed this book as it took my down memory lane to my years in the North East and Newcastle. It was also in Tyneside that I went with a friend to see my first clairvoyant - an interesting experience. What a refreshing read for me! I'll admit, I have read a lot of "ok" books lately. This was definitely not one of these! Right away I liked Tanz and I loved her easy Northern way and low tolerance for BS! Her abilities, which aren't too over the top at all make her really special and I really loved this story. I haven't read book one but I'll be adding it directly to my wish list! Highly addictive with a main character that keeps you laughing even when faced with ghosts. I could not get enough, I devoured this book and wanted more. The constant ‘making homosexuality a personality trait’ thing, putting all gay people into a box and stereotyping them. I haven’t read the first book, but I had no difficulty getting to grips with the characters and the story, a short recap is threaded into the story helps with this. Tanz(Tania only to her Nanna) is the first person narrator as well as psychic and struggling actress.

Caroline Smailes on The Accidental Medium Spooky and hilarious and brimming with oddball characters, I love this book!After an interesting twelve years messing about in front of the camera and traveling the world, Tracy discovered she still loved writing and completed her first full length play KABOOM! A son, many stage plays, screenplays and a music video followed, until 2012 when she realized she was finally ready to do the one thing she’d longed to do since she was six. She wrote her first novel, The Accidental Medium – a crime/horror/comedy tale about an alcohol-soaked, gobby, thrill-seeking actress who talks to ghosts. (Who knows where the inspiration came from . . .)

This was an easy book to read and finished it one setting. The was lots of humour especially when the author describes life on a television set and quirks of the north-east. She does capture life in Newcastle accurately in her writing. The secondary characters are interesting and quirky in their own way and generally push the story. Tanz can talk to ghosts, although she’d prefer it if she couldn’t. Struggling to make ends meet as an actress and wholly unsuited to supply teaching, Tanz is only one bad day away from a meltdown. And the babbling ghosts aren’t helping. This is the second book I've read in this series featuring Tanz, a bit-part actor who is disenchanted with the acting world and who has recently discovered she can communicate with the dead. After her exploits in The Accidental Medium, Tanz is keeping a low profile in the spirit world, but the ghosts of the past won't leave her alone. Fantastic ghostly sleuth story, the second in a set but would read well as a stand alone book! It’s hilarious, with the most brilliant characters, authentic ghostly happenings, and addictive reading, this one is hard to put down.Of all the people (alive and not) introduced, I think I enjoyed Frank the most. I wish we had had some more interaction with him, but perhaps this will happen in a later book. Tanz is a struggling actress with a gift she would gladly not be in possession of: she can talk to ghosts! Poor Tanz has got enough on her plate juggling trying to make her acting dreams a reality with the demands of supply teaching – a profession she is wholly unsuited to! With Tanz feeling as if she is edging ever closer to a complete and utter meltdown, babbling ghosts is the very last thing she needs. But it seems as if things are finally looking up when she gets a paid acting gig in her hometown! Is Tanz on the precipice of superstardom? Or is she about to inadvertently stumble into more ghostly capers? Reading a Tracy Whitwell book is like talking to that one slightly deranged friend on a coffee date that accidentally turns into an all-day hangout. Her writing makes me laugh out loud sometimes, and I can easily imagine myself in the setting of each chapter because of her style of writing. Following Tanz on her journey of discovering she is a medium we are treated to a cosy, funny and fast paced read full of lively characters, swearing and spirits (of all types.) Newcastle’s dead refuse to stay quiet for long and pretty soon Tanz finds herself haunted by visions of an enigmatic Gin Palace guarded by a mysteriously sinister figure. What could possibly be the meaning of this? Could this be some kind of premonition that could help stop a terrible future tragedy? Tanz is determined to find out – even if it means having to do battle with a poltergeist determined to keep his secrets his own!

The two-time Oscar winner is set to direct the pilot for the Fox period drama The Middle Man, the network announced Friday.  Along the way, Tanz becomes friends with Gladys, a healer - a wonderful character I'd love to meet, and she also seems to be the only one able to get through to Caroline, one of Tanz's acting colleagues and a real prima-donna that nobody else knows how to deal with. As well as lots of Tanz-style laughs, there are some tender moments in this book, including taking Caroline for chips and the part where Tanz shares a message with Gladys which had me in tears. This story grabbed me immediately, it didn't take me an blink to get attached to the protagonist and immerse myself in the story that she had to buy.I'd recommend this to people who like the Riversy of London series, or who're looking for something like The Dresden Files with a female and more witchy twist. Actress Tanz is an accidental but talented medium and it’s while she’s filming scenes for a local tv series, that she becomes reluctantly embroiled in solving a century old murder that’s spooky, spiritual and at times scary. The emotional support she offered troubled fellow actress Caroline, who had recently been treating her as a second class citizen, was very endearing and truly brought a tear to my eye. So when Tanz is offered a paid acting gig in her hometown, things start to look up. But Newcastle’s dead won’t stay quiet for long, and soon Tanz becomes haunted with visions of a mysterious Gin Palace guarded by a sinister figure. As Tanz starts to piece together a terrible tragedy, it becomes clear there’s no limit to what the poltergeist will do to keep his secrets his own. Love the plot of this one and all the history embedded into the story line! I think I enjoyed this book even more than the first one! I love the idea of solving 100 year old murder and how everything was some how all connected and all came together in the end!