I received a copy from Netgalley.
Oh dear. This sounded like such an interesting premise. People mysteriously being brought back to life and one new girl who gets in the middle of everything. Can't fault the writing, the novel was pretty well written, the characters were fairly likeable, even though I did find the main character Presley to be kind of bland and a bit dull. The plot, however, was utterly ludicrous. By the half way point my eyes were rolling so much I was skimming the rest mainly because I was mildly curious to know what was going on and how the absurdity of it all would wind up in the end.
Started off with flags raising - Presley works at a funeral home. The most popular guy in her high school and the town football hero Bauer Grant has died and she's working at his funeral. The congregation are cleared out to head for the churchyard for burial. The family remain a few moments to say their final goodbye. All of a sudden, Bauer sits up in coffin and appears to be alive and perfectly fine. Mysterious? Yes. However - one thought springs to mind (Especially for anyone who's seen all of 'Six Feet Under') comes to mind - they are going to bury him, wouldn't he have been embalmed? So how can he be sat up fine. (Looking through some of the other reviews I see I'm not the only one who noticed this. There are of course Answers. And Reasons. That do come in much later in the plot, but why did no one think of this sooner?
For some unknown reason, Bauer seems to become very attached to Presley very quickly. Even though they've never communicated before. At least she can't understand it either, but of course, he's the hottest guy in school and he's suddenly paying attention to her. Plot inconsistencies aside, Bauer was so nice to everyone it was almost boarding on sickeningly sweet. And the plot goes on from there. Presley becomes friendly with Bauer's best friend Sam. She appears to have been pretty much a loner before this happened. More and more people are rising from the dead. Pretty soon the town is a media hotspot.
No one knows why. Though there is a mysterious military base outside the town. And things keep getting weirder. Though only Presley and Sam seem to have the presence of mind to ask questions. Sam's dad works on the military base. Presley is constantly told not to ask questions. Weird things keep happening. There's also mention of a meteorite crashing. Could this be responsible for the weirdness in the town? (Yeah, sorry Mystique, have you seen 'Smallville' at all? Way too similar for my tastes.)
The plot goes back round to dead people rising, media involvement, Presley asking too many questions, military cover-ups. Unfortunately, was so convoluted and became so ridiculous I lost any interest I may have had in this. Didn't like this one much at..
Thank you to Netgalley and Patchwork Press - Cooperative for the opportunity to view the title.
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