Saturday, May 14, 2011

The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting - 5 stars

The Body Finder (The Body Finder, #1)

The Body Finder (The Body Finder #1)

by Kimberly Derting (Goodreads Author)

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.


My Review;
I loved this book. It was an excellent first book in a new YA series. I enjoyed all the characters, the romance is very sweet and the mystery had enough twists and excitement to keep me reading. This was one of those books that was very difficult for me to put down once I started to read it. I loved the way Violet can find dead bodies and how she uses the victims "echoes" to find their killer. The cover art on this book is just gorgeous as well! 

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