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The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

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Sep 28, 10

Read in September, 2010

I'm having a hard time rating this one.... I don't know, 3 or 4 stars?!?!?!
Going the middle ground with 3.5 (goodreads really needs to let us give half stars!)

This was not at all what I had expected, it was far better. We are following Violet's story, she is a "death finder". It started of where dead animals would create a sound and call to her. Then as an 8 year old girl she found another human, another little girl dead in the woods. Time passes, it's back to only animals until she is 15. There is an abuductor and killer on the loose, it's prey is teenage girls. Violet's sensors go crazy. She feels crazy, but she ends up finding some of their bodies because of their distinct echo. When a local girl winds up missing, Violet's uncle, the sheriff, asks her to use her secret to help find this murderer. She is noticed, will she survive? Can she out smart this killer?I guess you'll have to read it to find out.

Meanwhile, she is falling in love with her best friend who seems oblivious. Not just to her, but to all the other girls falling all over him. He does get particularly moody and protective.... Gasp, does he love her too??!?!? Of course. I know it sounds boring and like the same old love story- but there is something about Violet and Jay that seems fresh. I wanted to know what was going to happen, they always seemed so up in the air.
The entire time reading this, I kept thinking "Please don't let the killer be Jay, don't go that route." I'm glad I can say Whew!!!!



On the cover it says "You'll be drawn in by the love story-and kept up all night by the supsense" Claudia Gray.

She couldn't have been more right. She hit the nail on the head. This book was an easy, but interesting book. I'd recommend to all you young adult readers. This one is good!!!

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message 1: by AH (new) - rated it 4 stars

AH I really liked this book. It was a way different YA book. The only thing I didn't get was why the boyfriend was always in her room. Where are her parents?


Kristy in the second book, she'll wind up preggo... j/k
You're right though, parents in a lot of these books are far too absent!


message 3: by Cara (new) - added it

Cara I know we need those half-stars!!!!


Kristy amen, when will they listen?!?!?!?


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