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A review by celjla212
Croak by Gina Damico
5.0
Sixteen year old Lex (Lexington) has been raising hell lately. She is the complete opposite of her twin, Cordy. Lex gets into fights, bullies people, and curses in a very unladylike fashion. So her parents decide to send her to live with her creepy uncle for the summer, hoping it will straighten her out by the time she goes back for her senior year.
When Lex gets to the small town where her Uncle Mort lives, called Croak, she is thrown into a world she never imagined existed. And Lex is given a summer job--Killer. She helps transport the souls of the dead to the underworld. And shockingly to Lex and everyone in Croak, she's good at it--maybe too good.
But then things start going wrong when people start mysteriously dropping dead of unknown causes. It's up to Lex, and her cranky partner Driggs, to find out what really going on before it happens in their town, too.
Oh wow, this book was such a breath of fresh air! I LOVED everything about it! Lex was so, so snarky and funny. Her partner Driggs didn't disappoint either. At first when I saw that she was going to have a male partner, I was like, "Ohhh no, please no insta-love!" And it definitely was not. Although Lex and Driggs have a great chemistry, and I love them together, blessedly they were not all over each other from the get go.
I loved the setting and everything about the town, Croak. Characters' names and the names of places in town are symbolic and hilariously inappropriate puns having to do with death: Uncle Mort, Corpp's Bar, The Morgue Diner, Elysia. This was so original and made me smile.
Lex is a great, strong female main character. She swears like crazy and some things she said literally made me laugh out loud, because in my head I could imagine the awkwardness. The only person she really connected with before coming to Croak was her twin sister, and I loved that even though she was so tough to everyone else in the world, her sister was always her one sensitive spot.
The mysterious plot in this book was awesome. I literally had no inkling of who was behind the murders until I got the the point where the murderer was revealed. The author did a fantastic job of not using too much foreshadowing to the point where the story was predictable.
I tore through this book in less than a day, and I can't wait for the next one (I'm guessing it's a series, the way it ended). PLEASE pick up this book if you need a change from all the other super serious paranormal books that are floating around right now!
When Lex gets to the small town where her Uncle Mort lives, called Croak, she is thrown into a world she never imagined existed. And Lex is given a summer job--Killer. She helps transport the souls of the dead to the underworld. And shockingly to Lex and everyone in Croak, she's good at it--maybe too good.
But then things start going wrong when people start mysteriously dropping dead of unknown causes. It's up to Lex, and her cranky partner Driggs, to find out what really going on before it happens in their town, too.
Oh wow, this book was such a breath of fresh air! I LOVED everything about it! Lex was so, so snarky and funny. Her partner Driggs didn't disappoint either. At first when I saw that she was going to have a male partner, I was like, "Ohhh no, please no insta-love!" And it definitely was not. Although Lex and Driggs have a great chemistry, and I love them together, blessedly they were not all over each other from the get go.
I loved the setting and everything about the town, Croak. Characters' names and the names of places in town are symbolic and hilariously inappropriate puns having to do with death: Uncle Mort, Corpp's Bar, The Morgue Diner, Elysia. This was so original and made me smile.
Lex is a great, strong female main character. She swears like crazy and some things she said literally made me laugh out loud, because in my head I could imagine the awkwardness. The only person she really connected with before coming to Croak was her twin sister, and I loved that even though she was so tough to everyone else in the world, her sister was always her one sensitive spot.
The mysterious plot in this book was awesome. I literally had no inkling of who was behind the murders until I got the the point where the murderer was revealed. The author did a fantastic job of not using too much foreshadowing to the point where the story was predictable.
I tore through this book in less than a day, and I can't wait for the next one (I'm guessing it's a series, the way it ended). PLEASE pick up this book if you need a change from all the other super serious paranormal books that are floating around right now!