A review by tessisreading2
Grave Matters by Lauren M. Roy

3.0

The book is much more focused on the inner turmoil of the Ragtag Band of Misfits - about five of whom are viewpoint characters - than anything resembling actual plot. It’s not great, because the world-building is complicated and this is the second book in the series. Maybe the first book had more background - but there’s so much in this one that if so, it must have been nothing BUT background. There are a lot of characters, mostly with very short names, two of which start with C.

I also question the choice to place Russian vampires in Southie, but that’s a Boston thing. Polish, okay, maybe they walked from Dorchester. (And why does everyone refer to a character as “Dunyasha”? Her boss, sure, it’s a power play, but surely she’d insist that everyone else use Dunya or even Avdotya?)