Graveminder

By: Melissa Marr
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Stars: 2 out of 5

Rebekkah Barrow’s grandmother Maylene has just been murdered. There is no one to mind the dead and now Bek must return to the town is dreads going back to. Soon she discovers why her grandmother did all of her odd traditions to mind the dead; if the dead are not minded then they come back to feed off of food, drink and stories of the living. And it turns out that Claysville has a connection with a lawless world of the dead and an enigmatic ruler in which a Graveminder and an Undertaker – a man of the town who protects the Graveminder – work for. Now some dead are walking among them and it is up to Bek and her adolescent lover Bryon, to set things right.



I saw this book the day it came out and was very captivated by the synopsis and the author. Melissa Marr is also the writer of the teen series Wicked Lovely and so I wanted to see how she would write her first adult novel. I am sorry to say I was not impressed. It was slow – slow enough that I even put the book down and finished another one before picking it back up – and just not that captivating as I was hoping. If you like Marr’s teen books, in my opinion stick with her teen books. I wasn’t impressed with this novel at all.