Black Bird of the Gallows
by Meg Kassel
What is it about:
A simple but forgotten truth: Where harbingers of death appear, the morgues will soon be full.
Angie Dovage can tell there’s more to Reece Fernandez than just the tall, brooding athlete who has her classmates swooning, but she can’t imagine his presence signals a tragedy that will devastate her small town. When something supernatural tries to attack her, Angie is thrown into a battle between good and evil she never saw coming. Right in the center of it is Reece—and he’s not human.
What’s more, she knows something most don’t. That the secrets her town holds could kill them all. But that’s only half as dangerous as falling in love with a harbinger of death.
What did I think of it:
This was totally a cover buy two years ago.
And because of that gorgeous cover I wanted this to be a cool read. It was entertaining at best though.
The general idea of the story is cool, but the execution makes it fall flat. The build-up is slower than molasses and when at chapter 27 the action finally begins it couldn't grab my attention anymore.
I did finish it, but was underwhelmed.
I might go easier on this book if the characters had been more fleshed out, but they all felt as flat as the aforementioned execution of what might have been an intriguing story.
All in all not a book I'll reread.
Why should you read it:
It's an entertaining if slow Paranormal YA read.
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