Croak (Croak #1) by 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?

This is the first audiobook I listened to this year. It wasn't very long. 8 hours or something like that. I turned out to be part of a trilogy. But let's start with the book!

 WOW! The book was just.....WOW! I never expected it to be so good. SPOILERS! LOT'S OF THEM!

So, Lex. I want to note that I have never been a problem teen. I never stole anything or bullied anyone. And yet I can understand her. She is doing something bad and she doesn't know why. She knows she is a better person than that. And I know that feeling.

Ok, the plot and the writing style were great. The author has created this whole new world within the normal world. A town full of grim reapers. How cool is that?! I like that she mentions the aether, because I'm very interested in it. It's mentioned in many dystopian and stempunk books. The wrting style....it was good, but there is always this one sentence ''She let out a breath she didn't know she was holding." It was mentioned only once, but it was enought for me. Is it some kind of joke? This is the fifth or the sixth book time I see this sentence or some of it's veriations. Is it because today's generation has major breathing problems.

Driggs! DRIGGS! So he isn't the best male character. But I liked him. He wasn't the typical swoon-worthy guy. And his and Lex's first meeting. WOW! That was so funny. I loved his obsession with spiders. Well, not exactly an obsession, but how many guys do you know who are not afraid, but eager to enter a room full of spiders. And Titanic. He likes Titanic. I laughed so hard at that. I think Lex was going to have a heart attack when she entered that pink room with a giant Titanic poster. I would!

Zara! I never really liked her. Well, exept when I first saw her. Then she saw that Lex was freaking badass and started behaving like a bitch.  And OMG the ending. She was awful. I know she had an abusive father and all, but still....killing peole is just plain cruel and evil. I'm the daughter of a lawyer and a judge and I take murder pretty seriously. Criminals should be left to law and court to deal with. You can't just go around killing people. Well, you can, but it's wrong! Very very wrong. If everyone start murdering whoever they want and go Mara-Dyer style, what will happen? Chaos! CHAOS!

Sorry about that! I told you I take murder seriously. Moving on to Mort. He was probably my favourite character. I would die to have an uncle like him (Or, in my case, any uncle.) He has all those crazy inventions and his house.  I hope he doesn't die later on in the series.

There were other secondary characters and they were quite enjoyable, but I don't really remember their names.

I'll see ya next time with another book review!