Afterlife by Naomi ClarkEbook 287 pages
Source: E-copy from author in exchange for an honest review
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Book Synopsis
Yasmin Stoker is a ghost tour guide who spends her days showing tourists around Shoregrave’s haunted hotspots. She also happens to be a wraith who spends her nights hunting Revenants, newly-risen flesh-eating vampires. On one of her regular hunts, she witnesses a mysterious ghostly girl pulling the body of a teenage boy underground. Who and what is this girl, and why is she attacking men around the city? Yasmin investigates, but it quickly becomes clear that somebody wants to keep her from finding the killer and they’ll do anything–including ambushing her with ghouls and cacodaemons–to stop her.
With only a persistent private eye and a taciturn vampire (one of the Immaculate, no less) to help her, Yasmin must deal with fanatical necromancers, crazed ghosts, and a sexy history teacher in her quest to solve the mystery. And along the way she uncovers some heartbreaking truths about her own existence.
My ThoughtsThere are several threads and story lines running throughout the book, sometimes that is confusing to the reader and at others it makes perfect sense. The mysteries surrounding the brutally murdered children are over time explained, the identity of their murderer comes to light near the very end but in reading the clues given along the way if you pay attention does not come as a surprise to the reader. At least it did not to me as I strongly suspected who it was about halfway in or less. There is a good buildup to a follow-up to this book. The characters are well thought out and easy to connect to, the plot is paced well and the stories that intertwine are connected in such a way that by the end of the book they make perfect sense one to another. I thought that there could have been a little less use of some of the information given out of place at the beginning of each chapter as it was slightly distracting, after finishing the whole book though even that made sense to me and not sure how it could have been implemented differently as if it were left out completely the tale would not have been whole without it's addition. Not sure if this will be a stand alone or not but there is room for it to become a series if the author is so inclined with the way it ended.
[ecopy of book received from author in exchange for an honest review]
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2 comments:
Naomi Clarke is a pretty good writer, I have Afterlife here, and I've read her e-book, Wild. Loved Wild. Her characters are wonderfully flawed and dysfunctional, definitely not your goody-two-shoes gals fighting against the baddies. These characters do fight the good fight, but they're not your average characters. Seeing this reminds me that I need to dig out my copy of Afterlife and read it. :)
In reading this one yes the characters are flawed, wonderfully so and they are easy to relate to and that makes me feel at ease when reading a new author and story more enjoyable as well Mardel. Dig it out soon!
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