Firstly this is the vibe that ninth house thought it was gonna be but wasn’t….

Secondly, this is an urban fantasy much more akin to Crescent City with visits to other realms, but mostly in the human realm. Most of the characters are humans with no magic or otherness. So think supernatural.


Ok, now that we got all that covered
Damnnnnnnnn
When you read this, you are gonna hurt, you are gonna feel anguish. Our FMC seems weak, it seems like she gives into vices to forget her life, and she does, she is not a perfect person. By any stretch of the imagination, she is fighting demons, and hell, quite literally.
What she puts herself through is another level of hell.
Imagine you had a terrible experience and your entire life everybody said that it wasn’t possible, it wasn’t true, you would feel so alone and isolated. You be left knowing the terror of it happening all the time without your control and still not being believed each time. Hell.
And after all that, what is there left to do but face hell?
What would you be willing to do and risk to be with the one person that feels like heaven?

This is an amazing book but the trigger warnings are not a joke here!!!!

*Thank you to Kerry Williams and Netgalley for the arc of this book in exchange for my honest opinion*

Wow. Just Wow. I dont know what Kerry Williams laces her books with but once again I have devoured her work in 24 hours and have been left an emotional wreck and dying for the next installment!
The story follows Lovely who died when she was 17 and was brought back to life. She has been haunted with visions of the dead, and Death himself, ever since. The story follows her after the death of her father, she is a recovering addict and is reconnected with her childhood friend Tino. They travel to New Orleans to try to figure out why this is happening to her.
Kerry does an amazing job at making you fall in love with Lovely and really sympathise with her struggles. She makes mistakes, she makes bad decisions but all if this makes her human and relatable. Her addiction, self harm and mental struggles are written so well, you can tell a lot of care has been put into this aspect of the story.
The story does end on a cliffhanger, and it has destroyed me! I dont know how I am going to wait until book 2!!!
I would like to give an honourable mention to Death, or Charion. You will know once you reach it, but ohhhh i melted!

From the first line on the very first page I was in. I was invested. I love paranormal anything and this gave The Sixth Sense vibes. I was expecting more fantasy because of how the cover is but it's far from that. . Overall, I was happy with the ending.

I am always down to read a book about Death personified. I just LOVE that. I eat that up so fast.

This is yet another example of INCREDIBLE idea, but lackluster execution. When I read a fantasy book, even if it's urban fantasy, I expect whimsy! And fantasy! But I feel like that was really not here. I got nearly halfway into the book before it felt like anything even remotely whimsical happened (or the main plot/point of the book). And even then, I still was constantly going "this is supposed to be fantasy, isn't it?" Sorry if that sounds harsh, but when an incredible concept doesn't live up to its full potential it just grinds my gears.

The cover also makes it seem far more fantasy than it is. So that was also throwing me off quite a bit.

Really cool idea, but kind of disappointing for me. I really don't think that I will be returning to this series. Sorry!

Thanks to NetGalley for the e-ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review! My Goodreads review is up and my TikTok (Zoe_Lipman) review will be up at the end of the month with my monthly reading wrap-up.