I gave this book three point five stars as the beginning was very very slow, but the ending was amazing. It is such an interesting novel and very multifaceted, very few crime dramas are written from the perspective of the victim; and while this is a very new and very interesting perspective that allows for a lot of introspection and new plays with emotion it was not used to the full effect. I felt there was supernatural powers that were mentioned but not fully developed, and it was interesting that there was a need for such thing. As the point of being able to view this from the victims perspective is that you see the life lost, you see her story, you see her life. The life she wanted and what she has lost the life that she is trying to hold on to and she mourns her future.

This is done, but in a way that I feel distracts, because it is following the story of the woman who finds the body and the victim- it is trying to divulge two pasts. This is what makes the beginning of the book so slow, both of their pasts have to be discovered in order to gain connections and to understand the actions that bought them to New York. This also allows for a more emotional disconnection when the victim does die and you see the aftermaths in the real world. Through the woman that discovers the body, we are able to see the actions of the real world. She is tethered through this individual, thus, her world is made accessible. In ways this is very smart as this is a new perspective rarely seen in crime dramas. But there is much too much focus on her history and too much independent dialogue, as soon as she meets the death club and the interactions pick up, the novel delves into its depths, it really shines. The writer is able to make complex relationships and form complicated questions and really show the life that was missing, she begins talking more from the victims perspective in death and less about the past. I think a more split novel would’ve been better and with less random interception. Every chapter or section ended with a random interception from the dead, that ended that day or though and I think this being interwoven would’ve been more powerful. Still, this was a beautiful novel.

The ending did make my cry and Is was powerful to see the effect that this one woman’s death had on the living and not just of those she knew. It was a bittersweet ending and a bittersweet novel, a celebration of life, acknowledgement of death and a future gone and a future lived.

Very interesting, while not perfect.
I would definitely recommend reading this.
It is new and fresh and complex, worth your time.