About the Book

Graveminder

Graveminder

Author: Melissa Marr
Series: Graveminder #1
Pages: 324
ISBN: 0007349270
Genre: Horror, Paranormal
Publisher: HarperCollins
Released: July 7, 2011

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Synopsis

Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville. While growing up, Rebekkah watched as Maylene performed the same unusual ritual at every funeral: three sips from a small silver flask followed by the words, ""Sleep well, and stay where I put you.""
Now Maylene is gone and Bek must return to the hometown--and the man--she abandoned a decade ago, only to discover that Maylene's death was not natural . . . and there was good reason for her odd traditions. In Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected--and beneath the town lies a shadowy, lawless land ruled by the enigmatic Charles, aka Mr. D. From this dark place the deceased will return if their graves are not properly minded. And only the Graveminder, a Barrow woman, and the current Undertaker, Byron, can set things to right once the dead begin to walk. . . .


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Our Review


I found this book to be fairly predictable, and only occasionally annoying (with the main character and her constant cat and mouse game of “I love him, I love him not..) but at the same time, I kept turning the pages, staying up late even to read the very last page.

Although I didn’t find it very suspenseful, I still wanted to know the ending. The plot of a Graveminder/Undertaker is unique enough to keep your interest, but less emotional drama between the main characters would have made this book a little better.

This is the first book in the “Graveminder” series, but I don’t think I will continue it any further.