A review by mdpenguin
Graveyard Mind by Chadwick Ginther

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I'm going to make this sound bad, but it's not really a bad book. It was almost a really good book but for two things: I didn't really believe in Winter (or Summer, for that matter); and everything that could go wrong did go wrong such that it started to feel contrived by the end. There's a lot of action in the book and Winter is supposed to be quite the badass, but most of the time she's conveniently weakened by one thing or another such that she can't go all out. All the missteps required to get things into place also kind of made the book feel a bit dense: like maybe it would benefit from dropping a character or two to thin things out a bit so that the story and the characters had more space to be fleshed out and breathe (for those of them with the requisite organs to do so). I think that if the character of William were completely dropped and everything he was required for were handled by a more fleshed out growth in the relationship between Winter and Summer then it would have been a really good book. Instead, it was "merely" a decent, dark urban fantasy.