Sunday, March 17, 2013

The Dead Continue to be Minded


I’ve come off Graveminder loving it. I would love to see Marr go revisit this world with another story. She has left it open to explore more aspects, like what Alicia’s ulterior motive might be. Something else that could be interesting to see is what Amity has kept writing in her journals. After saying she doesn’t want to forget anything, it makes me wonder what could happen by her keeping a log of things happening.

Discovering Charlie’s secret and why the deal was made in the first place made me a bit sad for Charlie. Granted, he’s a clever dude and clearly does a brilliant job of pissing off the Undertakers, it’s still sad for him that he did something so drastically bad to impress someone he fell in love with. This makes me think that Charlie is in love with all his graveminders. He’s said they’re his, and they are surrogate mothers to all the dead he’s the father of.
    
           Byron and Rebbekah learning  how to do everything without the guidance of their predecessors definitely made it an experience, one that we got to ride along with. The guidance they did have was extremely helpful and made me love those who were there to help even more. I did really like seeing Rebbekah coming to terms with Ella and her feelings for Byron. 

               I was honestly a little surprised by Cissy being the culprit. I knew she was angry that she had been passed over for Graveminder, but I hadn’t pegged her for being a murderer and creating her own little army of walking dead. I expected to see more of Cissy in a different capacity, especially since I didn’t think she knew enough about the dead to do anything. Since she got her mother’s journals, she clearly knew what to do. 

               Now, what I’d be curious to see is if Melissa Marr would write one of the graveminder’s journals for us. It would be really neat how to what others went through while they minded the dead. Since I’ve finished, I might just have to grab Carnival of Souls off my shelf and see what she has set up in that world J

1 comment:

  1. I have to say that the whole Cissy thing threw me for a loop as well. Katie and I talked about this briefly, but what did she hope to control by raising an army of the undead? She had to know she couldn't control them! But I guess she was blinded by her own anger of not being picked at Graveminder that she would have done (and did) anything to get revenge.

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