This is book 1 and 2 in what is to be a 3 book series. I discovered the first book at my library. The shiny silver cover caught my eye and it had a picture of a teenage girl holding a scythe (?) so i picked it up read the back and was like eh why not. Best choice ever. The book is about a girl named Lex who's parents ship her off to go live with her uncle because she is a trouble maker. He lives in a town called Croak (that is also the name of the first book) where she is trained to become a grim reaper. Only Grim reapers live in croak. Sounds dark right? Well it kind of is but the way that the author wrote the characters gives the book a sense of humor that i really enjoyed. I honestly had moments when i would laugh out loud. They have reapers and they have cullers who collect the souls after the reaper has touched the person that has died. They have the afterlife which i love how the author portrayed it. Very similar to how i imagine the afterlife will be. Anywho Lex catches on quite fast at being a reaper and she has internal struggles to not take matters into her own hands and kill murders and people she feels deserves it. She blends in well with the people of croak and makes some fantastic friends and her partner driggs is a total spaz...but you learn to really enjoy him.
Then people start dying..people who aren't supposed to die, people that lex has her internal battles about are dying...and they can't seem to track how or who is doing this or why.
The ending is a jaw dropper. When i first read it i didn't know it was part of a series until the end..major cliff hanger which leads us to the next book.
Scorch
Book 2
Loved it. I read this book in about a day and a half. (i have no self control when i am reading a book i REALLY like) It picked up right where the first one left off which i can't really tell you about but the second book is equally well written, but much more dark things are happening in this one and yet the author still puts her humor into it so eve though it's subject matter is dark you don't get all sad and crazy in your head. Spoiler alert...i love an author who isn't afraid to off some characters...big or small ;)
The third book is due out in fall of 2013 and i cannot wait...though i must!
I give Croak 3 1/2 stars out of 5 and Scorch 4 stars out of 5.
Did you get this book at the library here in Midvale. It sounds interesting so I think I will look for it. I hate to have to wait a year though. Still, a good book is a good book.
ReplyDeleteYes I did get it at the Midvale library and I bought scorch as well. So you can borrow that whenever
ReplyDeleteI've checked it out and started reading it. Interesting to read it and think of how death was portrayed in the Book Thief. We shall see. Mom
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