Croak
Books | Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic
3.8
(241)
Gina Damico
Fed up with her wild behavior, sixteen-year-old Lex's parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape. But Uncle Mort's true occupation is much dirtier than shoveling manure. He's a Grim Reaper. And he's going to teach Lex the family business. She quickly assimilates into the peculiar world of Croak, a town populated by reapers who deliver souls from this life to the next. But Lex can't stop her desire for justice--or is it vengeance?--whenever she encounters a murder victim, craving to stop the attackers before they can strike again. Will she ditch Croak and go rogue with her reaper skills?
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Author
Gina Damico
Pages
311
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published Date
2012
ISBN
9780547608327 0547608322
Ratings
Google: 5
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"Much like most of the people here, this book was a bit hard for me to rate. There were some parts of the book I really enjoyed and made it hard to put the book down and there were some parts that made me put the book down and walk away from it until I felt I could come back.<br/><br/>Lex is a teenager who is going through a stage of feeling angry at everything and everyone. She was not always like this. It just happened. In hopes of changing her attitude, her parents send her to her her Uncle Mort, where she later discovers he is a Grim Reaper and she is about to join the business.<br/><br/>I absolutely adored Uncle Mort and wished there had been more of him in the book. He was an absolute awesome character and the type of Uncle I wish I had. <br/><br/>Lex was another matter. I liked her in some areas and then there were some areas I wanted to just smack her. I also enjoyed the snark between she and Driggs. These two are like cats and dogs always hissing and growling at each other and ready to tear each other apart. Yet they can work together so well that they seemed to be each other's half.<br/><br/>This book does have its potential and can be an enjoyable read to many but for now, I am on the fence with this one. Maybe the second book will change my opinion on it."
Susanna Bloom
"Even if it is a book from 2011 or whatever, the flagrant use of “spaz” and the R slur is quite disappointing. There are better takes on this kind of story, and this is very much like Discworld’s Mort & Death Note had a crap baby, and it was raised by the whole Twilight series and Angel from BtVS. Not good. "
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Eoghan Rcr
"Fantastic series. Unexpectedly light take on a morbid subject."
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