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The Reaper's Daughter by K.M. Randall Published by Booktrope on May 9th 2015
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Synopsis
I’ve always felt like an average girl ... except for my strange relationship with death. You could say I like to court it. Whether I’m soaring through the air as a flyer for Specter University’s cheer squad, or speeding down the steepest mountain with only grace and balance keeping me from an icy end, I’ve always needed to feel a rush. But now Death is courting me―in more ways than one. First, there’s Rishi, a rogue death deity who has a penchant for annoying me nearly to my grave and whose intense gaze has the power to see right through me. Then there’s Hades, who I’d rather had stayed just a myth. Now that he knows I exist, he’s not going to leave me alone until I meet the same end as my mother.Oh yeah, did I forget to mention her? I spent my whole life thinking she had died when I was a baby, but now I’ve found out she’s much more than dead. Fifty years ago, Hades banished my mother from the underworld and took away her ability to cross over souls―souls that have wandered lost through the world ever since. Now she wants me to clean up the mess. You may have heard of her before ... They call her the Grim Reaper.
I wish I had lots of nice things to say about this book. And I do, have a couple, but as I kept reading, it got more and more clear that it wasn’t the story for me.
First, this girl is a cheerleader, which was something quite cool since not all MCs have to be some misunderstood anti-makeup lone girl. So far so good, but then, while she’s doing her cheerleading stuff one day, being a flyer and trying not to you know, fall and break her neck, she spots a guy in the crowd. She can feel this guy is looking at her, and she just knows she was the only person he saw. (It actually says so in the book.)
And I was pretty sure I was th eonly person he saw, because his gaze was locked on me from where he was leisurely sprawled on the bleachers.
She could sense that a secret whirled in the depths of his eyes and that even from her airborne, muscle-locked position across the field, she could see it.
Please.
And it was a secret about me. How I knew, I wasn’t sure, but that boy knew me.
Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Why book? Why do you do this to me? When our relationship seemed so promising?
As you can see, I have a lot of issues with this scene in which she first meets this guy because everything is beyond ridiculous.
Shortly after that, we have a nice scene with her dad, and I loved it, because too many YA books have absent, if not plain dead parents. Having at least her father there, and making sure he’s a part of the MC’s life was a nice touch.
But then this crap happens.
I’m not saying I had to ‘find myself’. But I wanted to know the secret that the boy in the stands was keeping. Because I was sure it was about me.
This keeps bothering me because there’s no way she had any idea if that boy was keeping secrets or not. For all she knew he just thought she was hot and had ben thinking of how to get her to follow him to some dark corner.
Rae had been staring me down pretty hardcore and seemed to have a creepy interest in me. I didn’t think I was just imagining it either. There was something off here.
So, what I can gather from this, is that this didn’t strike me as something final. What I mean is, this could be passed as very good 10th, or even 20th draft, but never the final one. Because a final one shouldn’t have this kind of mistakes. It has nothing to do with grammar, or the plot of the story, but the writing. That was the problem.
I saw my first draft reflected on this book. Because things begin to be obvious and that ‘There’s something off here’ gets stupid instead of mysterious.
This is a good read for people who have not read a lot of books yet, and, obviously, are into mythology and the paranormal. Into books like Existence, by Abbi Glines. It features the deity of Death too, only there Death’s a hot guy. (I enjoyed that book) But this one wasn’t for me.
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