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A review by fearnerd
The Undertaker's Daughter: A Novel of Supernatural Horror by John James Minster
4.0
This book left me scatching my head. The more I think about it and puzzle over some of its eccentricities, I can't decide if it's a bad book, a good book, or maybe even slightly a great book. It's definitely a strange book. Basically for its majority, it's a YA romance story with some troubling (triggery) elements (sexual assault, bullying). Then, there are massive discussions of religious ideology dealing with Christian and Jewish faith. Then, there's the other stuff (necrophilia, sodomy, and a walking dead serial killer). It's quite the tale that John James Minster has written. I was entertained for as much as I was puzzled just because I didn't know what kind of book I was reading.
The heavy dose of religion that comes from conversations mostly between teenagers (!) doesn't feel realistic but it does serve a purpose to the overall story. Still, I felt like there was an agenda to the book to convert readers to Christianity. Keep in mind that this book has a murderer who likes to sodomize its victims and cut open their stomachs at the same time. It's kind of funny in a way like an extreme version of a book written by the Kill Creek character Daniel Savage. Despite its clunky and sometimes cringy insertion, I found the religious talk more fascinating than detrimental to the story.
The supernatural horror doesn't come into play until near the book's end, but when it does, it wasn't quite what I was expecting. It's almost slightly humorous when taken into context with the rest of the book about this budding romance between two teens (who plan to marry after doing it once) who get bullied by this group of mean teens consisting of a rapist, two vandals, and two mean girls. These parts all don't seem to fit yet they're jammed together like some weird Legos contraption your three-year-old would make. And somehow I found this fun lol.
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The heavy dose of religion that comes from conversations mostly between teenagers (!) doesn't feel realistic but it does serve a purpose to the overall story. Still, I felt like there was an agenda to the book to convert readers to Christianity. Keep in mind that this book has a murderer who likes to sodomize its victims and cut open their stomachs at the same time. It's kind of funny in a way like an extreme version of a book written by the Kill Creek character Daniel Savage. Despite its clunky and sometimes cringy insertion, I found the religious talk more fascinating than detrimental to the story.
The supernatural horror doesn't come into play until near the book's end, but when it does, it wasn't quite what I was expecting. It's almost slightly humorous when taken into context with the rest of the book about this budding romance between two teens (who plan to marry after doing it once) who get bullied by this group of mean teens consisting of a rapist, two vandals, and two mean girls. These parts all don't seem to fit yet they're jammed together like some weird Legos contraption your three-year-old would make. And somehow I found this fun lol.
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