Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes that the dead leave behind in the world... and the imprints that attach to their killers.
Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find the dead birds her cat had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.
Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved to find herself hoping that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer... and becoming his prey herself.
This was a delightful read--I mean, other than the fact that it was kind of morbid. But, the fact that I kind of like darker books has already been rather well established here, so this one was a lot of fun. Plus, I think I'd like to take Jay's personality and trade it with *certain* people I know :) Quite a delightful relationship to build this book around. Also, I liked that the book was done in 3rd person. While I personally like first person narratives more than anything else, this one was very well done, mainly because it stayed close to Violet and allowed for her to really shine through. Something that I've been seeing a lot in other books is that even first-person can't always do this well. Anyhow, I'll be snagging Desires of the Dead, the next in the series, when I get a chance! Oh, and Derting's other book, The Pledge, looks supreme!
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