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A review by shay23
Grunge Gods and Graveyards by Kimberly G. Giarratano
5.0
Orginaly posted at The Story Goes... -Blog tour stops on the 17th and the 21st!
I really really enjoyed this book, I mean I just I loved it. The thing is, for me, the more I love a book the more nonsense I write in my review, so just a warning. It pretty much goes like, I loved everything, I just say that word, love, over and over again. It's like I just want to run up to random strangers thrust the book in there faces and yell "I love this book!" as loud as I can. So that's all you need to know right? Right?
Let's start with the setting, not just the town, but the year, 1996, and this is mainly because of grunge music, hence the Grunge Gods part of the title. I loved all the music references and how music played into this book, it's not what makes this book so awesome but it's like the icing on the cake of awesomeness. I just loved it so much. I am a sucker for any kind of musical reference in books, whether the main character just listens to music or sings or whatever, and I've never seen anything that focuses on Grunge music and I just loved it so much.(Should we count how many times I say the word love?)
Then you have the graveyards, because if you're going to have ghosts you have to have graveyards. Let's actually talk ghosts though, okay? I loved(dammit) the mystery aspect to this book, of solving Danny's murder and everything, it really did keep me guessing until the very end. I really liked(ha) the way ghosts were portrayed in this book, I'm a huge fan of ghost books whether they're scary or bitter sweet, and I really liked the version the author chose to use, they weren't crazy or mean they were just stuck. It was bitter sweet and heartbreaking to see Danny's ghost and all the unsaid things between Lainey and him, it just gave me all the feels, like I wanted them to be together and then I wanted her to move on and then it's just so sad and all the feels...you know?
Which brings me to the next thing I loved, which was Lainey and her journey to acceptance, my heart broke a little bit each time she would remember that though she could see Danny he really was gone and...the feels, okay? The feels. All the scenes from the short week or so they had together and then the memories from before that when they were sorta kinda friends, I loved that we got to see so much of their relationship without it overwhelming the rest of the story. I also really enjoyed Lainey's relationship with her sister Liz, and her best friend Wilder(I really really enjoyed Wilders character). I thought all the characters were done really well, they never really annoyed me which says a lot, really it does, and they were believable which is always good. I wanted more Nutley though, from like the first sentence he was mentioned in I knew I was going to love him but we didn't really get to see much of him which was a little disappointing!
So basically I loved this book, there were a few little things that I didn't like, like I wanted more Nutely and more about the Lady In Blue but...I still loved this book. Also I don't know if this is going to be a series or what, but I really really want it to be one!
I really really enjoyed this book, I mean I just I loved it. The thing is, for me, the more I love a book the more nonsense I write in my review, so just a warning. It pretty much goes like, I loved everything, I just say that word, love, over and over again. It's like I just want to run up to random strangers thrust the book in there faces and yell "I love this book!" as loud as I can. So that's all you need to know right? Right?
Let's start with the setting, not just the town, but the year, 1996, and this is mainly because of grunge music, hence the Grunge Gods part of the title. I loved all the music references and how music played into this book, it's not what makes this book so awesome but it's like the icing on the cake of awesomeness. I just loved it so much. I am a sucker for any kind of musical reference in books, whether the main character just listens to music or sings or whatever, and I've never seen anything that focuses on Grunge music and I just loved it so much.(Should we count how many times I say the word love?)
Then you have the graveyards, because if you're going to have ghosts you have to have graveyards. Let's actually talk ghosts though, okay? I loved(dammit) the mystery aspect to this book, of solving Danny's murder and everything, it really did keep me guessing until the very end. I really liked(ha) the way ghosts were portrayed in this book, I'm a huge fan of ghost books whether they're scary or bitter sweet, and I really liked the version the author chose to use, they weren't crazy or mean they were just stuck. It was bitter sweet and heartbreaking to see Danny's ghost and all the unsaid things between Lainey and him, it just gave me all the feels, like I wanted them to be together and then I wanted her to move on and then it's just so sad and all the feels...you know?
Which brings me to the next thing I loved, which was Lainey and her journey to acceptance, my heart broke a little bit each time she would remember that though she could see Danny he really was gone and...the feels, okay? The feels. All the scenes from the short week or so they had together and then the memories from before that when they were sorta kinda friends, I loved that we got to see so much of their relationship without it overwhelming the rest of the story. I also really enjoyed Lainey's relationship with her sister Liz, and her best friend Wilder(I really really enjoyed Wilders character). I thought all the characters were done really well, they never really annoyed me which says a lot, really it does, and they were believable which is always good. I wanted more Nutley though, from like the first sentence he was mentioned in I knew I was going to love him but we didn't really get to see much of him which was a little disappointing!
So basically I loved this book, there were a few little things that I didn't like, like I wanted more Nutely and more about the Lady In Blue but...I still loved this book. Also I don't know if this is going to be a series or what, but I really really want it to be one!