Kyra Leigh

This book was quite a bit different than I'm used to reading. I was expecting a normal type of YA thriller and then this was a bit different type of thriller read.
This was the kind of story that messes with your head and I wasn't sure what was happening for about half of the book. This was about a contemporary spin on the Lizzie Borden story and grief. I've always thought the Lizzie Borden story is very strange and bizarre and this spin on it was as well.
So, Charlotte and Maddi are sisters trying to deal with life after their mother's death and cope with the grief and they're both drowning in grief and struggling. They both try to stay strong and help each other and meet a new friend at school who's a strange one that claims her mother was friends with their mother. Their father is mostly an absentee father before and after the death of his wife and their mother and then shacks up with the help not long after their mother's death.
Charlotte and Maddi try to figure out how to keep things for themselves and not have their father and his new girlfriend take over and take things away from them. They take things into their own hands to decide how things go and it's a bit disturbing.
If you're a fan of the Lizzie Borden story and retellings then make sure to check this one out. Thanks so much to NetGalley, Random House Children's, and Delacorte Press for letting me read and review this story. All opinions are my own.… (mais)

First off I just have to say that this cover does not do this story justice.
Yes, I know do not judge a book by the cover but really publishers should at least ask the cover designer to read the freaking book. I look at this cover and I see dark and sinister, this story is so far from that concept. I was actually pleasantly surprised when it did not meet my expectations of the cover.

The story was great, there seems to be a lot of reaper books out lately. I mean “Grim” when I say reaper. At first I was getting a bit miffed with the reaper and her staff I had to think, If I was performing a job day after day for a thousand years I’d might start acting bitchy and cranky too. The story follows Rosie who has died and how she has to perform the tasks of taken souls for the Reaper in order to advance to a more peaceful death. Quiet a concept where you have to do a bit of work after you die and it’s not easy work either. This story made me tear up and even go awhhh, that usually never happens when I read a book.… (mais)