I am a little torn about this one. I had my fun with it and like no other author Kalynn Bayron somehow manages to stir up my emotions. But I also have some critique…
Meka‘s life has been odd since she was born. Her parents are the owners of a funeral home and handling and preparing the dead is their „daily bread“. But despite growing up in this environment Meka herself is not exempt from nightmares about death. And one day an accident is the beginning of huge changes in her life.
Now… the good things:
- the depiction of grief felt very real and I had to slow down my reading to grief along.
- the middle part where some of the reveals happened was like a roller coaster to me
- it had some nice spooky moments that made me excited/thrilled.
- I liked the characters
The things that weren‘t so good:
- the first third was littered with modern youth language that was not continued into the second and third part. Wenn, dann durchziehen or leave it out completely. Better to ditch it. I know this is a no-go for many readers. It didn‘t bother me too much but to not have it consistently throughout the whole book threw me off.
- the last part was the one that you could call inspired by Frankenstein. I understand why they chose to use this as promotion for the book. Frankenstein is even named. But I still can‘t fully agree with the statement. Very hard to explain why.
- so the third part was the one I struggle(d) with the most (despite the youth language thing in part 1) or to say it in different words: the build up was more fun than the conclusion.
I‘ve read most of Kalynn Bayron‘s books and this was one of the weaker ones for me but still not a disappointment.
