The idea of the Grisha themselves kept me glued to the pages. If you want a creative fantasy world with top-notch story telling, look no further than this author's debut novel. Alina's story and the world of Ravka have been playing in my mind ever since I put down the book. I know this book as one freaking fantastic fantasy novel. Undeadly is a must read for fans of mythology, zombie, and paranormal books.Most people will know this book as Shadow and Bone.
I do wish we saw a little bit more of Rath and that the situation with Rick was explained a little better, but I am sure we will be seeing more of Rath in the next book and that makes me really happy. There is a lot packed into this one book. I needed to know what was going to happen. And then it picked right up again in the second half of the book and I didn’t set it down at all. And hello! How beautiful is that cover? I love it! It lagged a few spots in the middle, but never more than a few pages so it wasn’t bad at all. I loved the description of all of this at the start, plus I loved the originalness of the idea. Some people are freaked out by these creations but most people seem to accept this as normal. In this world, there are all sorts of things- Zombies, SEERs (which are creepy ghost slaves, that sounds so awful) spirits, ghouls, and even more. I loved watching her interact with the various people in the book, mostly because there were so many different reactions towards her. She is not afraid to speak her mind and she is inquisitive. Molly is a great mixture of curiosity, kindness and spunk. It reminded me of some of the smart ass heroines and writing of Meg Cabot, and she is one of my favorite authors because of her writing style. I caught myself chuckling throughout the whole book. She is sarcastic and the way she explains things is hilarious. I loved the voice of the main character, Molly. And for the exact reasons that she didn’t like it, I loved it! The writing is one of my favorite parts of Undeadly. It was very much teenage slang and sarcasm. I read a recent review of Undeadly right after I finished reading the book myself and the blogger was saying that she didn’t enjoy the language that the characters used. Undeadly is a great book and I know The Reaper Diaries is going to be one of my auto buy and auto read series. I loved how Michele Vail laid everything out and explained it. And what is even cooler is that it is Egyptian mythology! The Egyptian view of the underworld is one of the most fascinating takes on death and the afterlife, in my opinion. It is mainly mythology, which is such a nice twist because I love mythology books.
I was expecting another reaper book, with the main character collecting souls, but it is so much more than that. Undeadly is unlike anything that I thought it would be.
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