MY RATING
☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS
What are you willing to do, what are you willing to become, to save someone you love? On the one-year anniversary of his death in a terrible car accident, Sierra Sowell’s brother Jeffrey is resurrected by a mysterious man known only as Corliss. Corliss also transforms several people in Sierra’s life into inhuman monsters: her alcoholic neighbor Grace, her possessive ex-boyfriend Stuart, a creepy older man named Randall, and a sexually repressed colleague named Mandy. Each of these people harbor grudges against Sierra, sparks of anger and resentment which Corliss fans into murderous flames.
MY REVIEW
“What do ghosts always want from the living? Revenge. Or justice, depending on how you look at it.”
The story starts with Jeffrey suffering a fatal car crash during a storm. Corliss, the man in the black suit, brings him back to life.
Guess who’s hooked? This guy!
Things kept moving at a good pace, all is good.
Eventually, we’re introduced to the other characters. And that, my friends, is when my interest nosedives.
Jeffrey.
Corliss.
Sierra.
Marc.
These are the characters that I cared about.
I don’t want to spoil the fun, so I’m not going to tell you why I disliked all of the minor characters.
Let’s just say that things get… uh, very weird?
Unfortunately, this had a major impact on my ability to enjoy the rest of the story.
Listen, this isn’t a bad book. It just didn’t do it for me.
I’m giving it a 3. Rounded up from 2.5, because I thought the plot was intriguing. Plus, the beginning of the book was pretty damn good!
It was my first time reading Waggoner, I had no clue what to expect. I will certainly read more of his works in the future.
Let me finish by thanking the amazing humans over at Flame Tree Press for sending me an ARC of the book.