Title:
Reaper
Author:
L.S. Murphy
Publisher:
J. Taylor Publishing (January 7, 2013)
Format:
Kindle eARC Novel
Source:
Publisher
Genre:
YA Paranormal
There's
no way sixteen year old Quincy Amarante will become the fifth grim reaper.
None. Not over her shiny blue Mustang. Her Jimmy Choos. Or her dead body.
She’s supposed to enjoy her sophomore year, not learn about some freaky future Destiny says she has no choice but to fulfill.
It doesn’t take long for Quincy to realize the only way out of the game is to play along especially since Death can find her anyway, anywhere, anytime. And does.
Like when she’s reassuring her friends she wants nothing to do with former best friend Ben Moorland, who’s returned from god-knows-where, and fails. Miserably.
Instead of maintaining her coveted popularity status, Quincy’s goes down like the Titanic.
Maybe ... just maybe ... that’s okay.
It seems, perhaps, becoming a grim reaper isn’t just about the dead but more about a much needed shift in Quincy’s priorities—from who she thinks she wants to be to who she really is.
She’s supposed to enjoy her sophomore year, not learn about some freaky future Destiny says she has no choice but to fulfill.
It doesn’t take long for Quincy to realize the only way out of the game is to play along especially since Death can find her anyway, anywhere, anytime. And does.
Like when she’s reassuring her friends she wants nothing to do with former best friend Ben Moorland, who’s returned from god-knows-where, and fails. Miserably.
Instead of maintaining her coveted popularity status, Quincy’s goes down like the Titanic.
Maybe ... just maybe ... that’s okay.
It seems, perhaps, becoming a grim reaper isn’t just about the dead but more about a much needed shift in Quincy’s priorities—from who she thinks she wants to be to who she really is.
Review:
An emotional novel, Reaper by L.S.
Murphy leaves a reader looking at death and life in a different way.
Sixteen-year-old Quincy Amarante
stands at the pentacle of her sophomore class. She’s beautiful, popular, and
the girl all guys desire. But all that changes in a stop of time when her
ancestor greets her and tells her she’s the next reaper. Is she having a mental
break? Did someone slip her drugs in her water? As her popularity goes down the
drain, she must decide what is important in her life and how she can handle the
hand Fate and Destiny have given her.
Reaper
starts out a bit erratic with an OCD perfectionist in Quincy Amarante. Half the
time I was on the fence on whether or not I wanted to keep reading. I wasn’t
certain I cared much about the characters, except for Ben Moorland. I loved the
paranormal parts with the reaper and Destiny, but that worldbuilding and
characterization was too few and far between. Then, midway through the novel,
everything changed. The pace was better, and Quincy became more herself than
the superficial queen of popularity. Her future life as a reaper became in
focus and the consequences of such a life. Murphy plunks the reader’s
heartstrings as events turn tragic yet necessary in a touching and emotional
ending.
Although L.S. Murphy’s Reaper started out slow, this novel is
worth reading and stays with the reader.
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| Four Bookworms = I really liked it! |
