Melissa Marr has found success with her YA Wicked Lovely
series. She is now branching out with a Gothic mystery with
a touch of horror. GRAVEMINDER, her first adult novel, is
about twenty-something Rebekkah Barrow. She has been afraid
of commitment and love since senior year of high school
when her step-sister Ella and then her step-father died.
She has been roaming from town to town until she hears the
worse news of her life. Her beloved grandmother has died
drawing her back to the small town of Claysville. She has
never wanted to admit that she considered the small odd
town home or that she was, and is, still in love with one
one person she always thinks of, Byron.
Expecting a normal visit to attend a funeral, Rebekkah's
world is turned upside down. She always knew Claysville
had odd traditions when it came to death and burial. She
did not expect to find out something was attacking the
citizens of the sleepy little town. Now Rebekkah and Byron
are the only thing standing in the way of more senseless
deaths. They can work together if they could get over the
angst of love not forgotten and her fear of admitting how
she truly feels.
GRAVEMINDER is a great gateway book from YA into adult. The
first love angst is strong but the novel deals with adult
situations. The mystery built into the story will keep you
reading into the early hours of the morning. The story that
builds within the pages is imaginative and well developed.
I felt connected with Byron. Throughout the story, he knew
what he wanted and he never stopped trying to achieve it.
No matter what Rebekkah threw his way, he stayed strong,
supportive, and wouldn't let her fears throw him off
track. He is the type of male character I feel teenage
girls should base their personal choice on for a
significant other. Byron is unique in a sea of bad boys.
A book is supposed to draw the reader into the world
presented on the pages. Marr has achieved this nicely.
GRAVEMINDER will be on my list of suggested books for my
friends.
Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the attention her grandmother Maylene bestowed upon the dead of Claysville, the small town where Bek spent her adolescence. There wasn't a funeral that Maylene didn't attend, and at each one Rebekkah watched as Maylene performed the same unusual ritual: She took three sips from a silver flask and spoke the words "Sleep well, and stay where I put you."
Now Maylene is dead, and Bek must go back to the place she left a decade earlier. She soon discovers that Claysville is not just the sleepy town she remembers, and that Maylene had good reason for her odd traditions. It turns out that in Claysville the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected; beneath the town lies a shadowy, lawless land ruled by the enigmatic Charles, aka Mr. D. If the dead are not properly cared for, they will come back to satiate themselves with food, drink, and stories from the land of the living. Only the Graveminder, by tradition a Barrow woman, and her Undertaker—in this case Byron Montgomery, with whom Bek shares a complicated past—can set things right once the dead begin to walk.
Although she is still grieving for Maylene, Rebekkah will soon find that she has more than a funeral to attend to in Claysville, and that what awaits her may be far worse: dark secrets, a centuries-old bargain, a romance that still haunts her, and a frightening new responsibility—to stop a monster and put the dead to rest where they belong.
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