Graveminder
Books | Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
3.3
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Melissa Marr
When Rebekkah returns to her small-town home for her beloved Grandmother’s funeral, she little suspects that she is about to inherit a darkly dangerous family duty on behalf of Claysville’s most demanding residents – the dead. Everyone in Claysville knows that the Barrows are no ordinary family, but no one can really explain why. When respected matriarch Maylene Barrow dies suddenly her granddaughter Rebekkah returns to the small town she grew up in, where she must face the demons of her past – the suicide of her half-sister Ella, the person she was closest to in the world, and the subsequent break-up of her parents marriage. And she also re-encounters Byron, Ella’s old boyfriend, someone to whom she has always felt a deep and mysterious connection. But the demons of the past are nothing compared with what the future has in store for Rebekkah. Her grandmother has left her an inheritance both wonderful and terrible. An onerous responsibility now rests on her shoulders – one for which she is ill-prepared to say the least. For behind Claysville’s community-spirited, small-town facade lies a dark secret. One that ties Rebekkah and Byron together in an inextricable bond, and that will require them both to sacrifice everything to keep their friends and neighbours from harm.
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Author
Melissa Marr
Pages
336
Publisher
HarperCollins UK
Published Date
2011-07-07
ISBN
0007364652 9780007364657
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"<strong>Great story</strong><br/><br/>This story was intriguing. It focused on Byron and Rebecca and the town of Claysville and a secret that only a few know but even fewer people know the whole truth. Without proper care the dead can walk again.<br/>Its a story of friendship, responsibility, love and a different look at death and what happens after.<br/>I personally would have liked some follow-up on certain characters who were directly affected by the events that occurred and how those people (Rebecca, Liz, and Amity) dealt with the after effects"
"Eeeeeeh, it was okay. I mean, I really got into in the beginning because there were some great characters introduced and the story seemed originally. <br/><br/>Then half way through I swear it was every other sentence "The Undertaker" or "The Graveminder" or "Her Undertaker" or "His Graveminder". I get the position, they don't need to be repeated constantly. <br/><br/>All the interesting characters from the start of the book never progressed. All the side characters were flat and uninteresting after the first quarter of the book and faded to the background. They get tossed in as an after thought. <br/><br/>The ending was just so rushed, it felt completely anti-climatic. Maybe I'm bitter about the ending because I started to really enjoy the world and found out the author had no plans to revisit it. So the budding triangle, the complex after life, the possibilities all are left un done.<br/><br/>It was... just... meh."