Author: Kimberly Derting
Pages: 336
Date Started: Feb 3nd, 2011
Date Finished: Feb 4nd, 2011
Did you like it? It was alright. An acceptable book with acceptable characters. I read other reviews on this book before I started reading it and I was all...Wow, it sounds amazing, why didn't I read this sooner? People ranted and raved about the characters. 1. Violet I felt was a very relate-able character and 2. Jay was, well, an awesome best friend/boyfriend but 3. I really felt that the characters were flat in a lot of ways. Wow, the girl can find the bodies of murdered people/animals? That's cool and all....but I didn't feel that she was ever really affected by it as much as she should have been. *shrug* maybe she just got used to it. And the "romance" aspect of this book? Please tell me I was not the only person to read this and from the first mention of Violets feelings towards Jay to be :omg he feels the same way about you, you dumb girl: well if not, maybe I just ruined that for you...whatever. I found the idea of leaving an echo/imprint after death to be very intriguing and I wondered what mine would be if I ever happened to be murdered. Morbid, but true. This book gets a 3.5/6 from me. The story was good. It was slightly suspenseful at parts, but it never hooked me or interested me enough other than to find out who the killer was.
What's it about?
Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find dead birds her cat left for her. But now that a serial killer is terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, Violet realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved by her hope that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer . . . and becoming his prey herself.So, like stated, it's about Violet who can sense murdered things and after 3 or so girls are killed from around her small town, she decides to use her ability to find who is doing this. Each person who is murdered leaves behind an echo...a smell, taste, sound, or sight that somehow pertains to who they are. These echoes call to Violet. And the murderer carries around imprints. ..a kind of residual mark (exactly like the murdered peoples echoes). Violet decides to use this knowledge to try to figure out who has been killing these girls. All things are going well until you find out there are two killers instead of one. Derting also writes a few scenes from the killers perspective and I much preferred those to reading about Violet and Jay and their romantic concerns. Maybe if I was younger and not so critical of teenage love I would have enjoyed the book more. I liked Violets character and I found her ability to be very intriguing, but it just didn't do enough for me to really like the book.
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