Shallow Graves

Reminder that this book is great and so underrated and y'all should read it!!!!

“I was so fucking tired of men deciding whether or not I got to go on existing for another day.”

Those last few chapters had me cheering and screaming like one of those rabid sports fans T B H

I love me a good Monsters/Humanity Venn Diagram book. Can monsters show humanity? Can humans be monstrous? We already know the answers, but it's the HOW and the WHY that can be so riveting, and this book delivers. The world-building and the paranormal elements introduced were fascinating, although I would have liked to learn a little more about some of the side characters (ZEKE!!!, Jake, and Violet in particular). I'm eagerly anticipating a follow up book entitled The Adventures of Undead Girl and the Ghoul Brothers.

I also really loved that the main character is bisexual (very openly and clearly–she even uses the B word!!!), but she doesn't have a main romantic arc in the book. I <3 queer romance but sometimes it's nice to just have queer characters...doing things...other than falling in love. Like, for example, clawing their way out of a grave with their bare hands and accidentally getting kidnapped by a cult. You know, ~Just Queer Girl Things~.