Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Review of : Graveminder by Melissa Marr







The New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series delivers her first novel for adults, a story about the living, the dead, and a curse that binds them.

Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville, the town where Bek spent her adolescence. There wasn't a funeral that Maylene didn't attend, and at each Rebekkah watched as Maylene performed the same unusual ritual: three sips from a small silver flask followed by the words "Sleep well, and stay where I put you."

Now Maylene is dead and Bek must go back to the place--and the man--she left a decade ago. But what she soon discovers is that Maylene was murdered and that there was good reason for her odd traditions. It turns out that in placid Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected. Beneath the town lies a shadowy, lawless land ruled by the enigmatic Charles, aka Mr. D--a place from which the dead will return if their graves are not properly minded. Only the Graveminder, a Barrow woman, and the current Undertaker, Byron, can set things to right once the dead begin to walk.

My review:

This was a really good book full of twist and turns and prices paid for deals made . You enter  a world unto itself where people who are born there can never leave and those few who do leave are destined to return. It goes to show things put into motion decades in the past still hold a meaning for some people in the present. I give this one 4 croaks.....


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1 comment:

lisa :) said...

This sounds like quite the creepy ghost story! I loved Melissa Marr's young adult stuff so I'll have to check this one out!