Ian Kirkpatrick

Thank you to NetGalley, Ian Kirkpatrick, and Steak House Books for an ARC of Plead More, Bodymore, the second book in the Bodymore series.

I usually give a short synopsis of the novel at this point, but honestly, I don't really know what the point of the book was. Nothing much really happened. Wayland kept disappearing again and Joey kept trying to find him and save him. When she wasn't doing that, Joey was trying to explain to Jag that she was dead, and he kept telling her that she wasn't dead and was just on drugs. I mean, she literally looks like walking death, so I don't know how he doesn't understand that she's dead. At the end of the first book, Joey and Wayland made an agreement with Charon to kill or at least incapacitate the walking dead in Baltimore so that he can come collect them, so I thought that's what this book would be, but it never happens. Not even when they go into a bar filled with dead people and get into a brawl, Charon and Val come to collect the newly dead people, but don't grab the undead while they're there. Other than that, Joey is trying to find a way to not be dead anymore...and that's pretty much it for the entire book.

I'm still not entirely sure how old Joey is, although I'm guessing that she's early 20s, but there's nothing really that gives even an approximation of her age. Joey isn't entirely likeable, she's very snarky and doesn't seem to have a lot of respect for anyone around her. She doesn't like cops, okay, I get that. But Donny has been like a father to her and she isn't nice to him either, or show him any respect. Jag is alright, he's trying to be supportive but he just doesn't truly understand what is going on, so he's just along on this crazy ride. Wayland is a crazy wildcard who sometimes shows up and sometimes disappears, and you never know what or when either of these things will happen. The only saving grace is Charon and Val, because with them you know what you're getting. Charon is stoic and will give indirect answers to questions, and Val is just there to eat the hearts of dead people, he doesn't care about anything else.

All in all, not one of my favorite books. I had a hard time finishing and really had to push through at times. There was a relatively nice conclusion to wrap everything up, so I don't think there's a third book, but I could be wrong. If you thoroughly enjoyed Bleed More, Bodymore, then by all means read this one. If you read the first one and just thought it was okay, you can probably skip this one.… (plus d'informations)

I usually give a short synopsis of the novel at this point, but honestly, I don't really know what the point of the book was. Nothing much really happened. Wayland kept disappearing again and Joey kept trying to find him and save him. When she wasn't doing that, Joey was trying to explain to Jag that she was dead, and he kept telling her that she wasn't dead and was just on drugs. I mean, she literally looks like walking death, so I don't know how he doesn't understand that she's dead. At the end of the first book, Joey and Wayland made an agreement with Charon to kill or at least incapacitate the walking dead in Baltimore so that he can come collect them, so I thought that's what this book would be, but it never happens. Not even when they go into a bar filled with dead people and get into a brawl, Charon and Val come to collect the newly dead people, but don't grab the undead while they're there. Other than that, Joey is trying to find a way to not be dead anymore...and that's pretty much it for the entire book.

I'm still not entirely sure how old Joey is, although I'm guessing that she's early 20s, but there's nothing really that gives even an approximation of her age. Joey isn't entirely likeable, she's very snarky and doesn't seem to have a lot of respect for anyone around her. She doesn't like cops, okay, I get that. But Donny has been like a father to her and she isn't nice to him either, or show him any respect. Jag is alright, he's trying to be supportive but he just doesn't truly understand what is going on, so he's just along on this crazy ride. Wayland is a crazy wildcard who sometimes shows up and sometimes disappears, and you never know what or when either of these things will happen. The only saving grace is Charon and Val, because with them you know what you're getting. Charon is stoic and will give indirect answers to questions, and Val is just there to eat the hearts of dead people, he doesn't care about anything else.

All in all, not one of my favorite books. I had a hard finishing and really had to push through at times. There was a relatively nice conclusion to wrap everything up, so I don't think there's a third book, but I could be wrong. If you thoroughly enjoyed Bleed More, Bodymore, then by all means read this one. If you read the first one and just thought it was okay, you can probably skip this one.… (plus d'informations)

I don't really know what to say about this book. It was okay, maybe alright, not great. I'm really kind of indifferent to it. It wasn't terrible, but not the best book I've ever read. The concept is kind of interesting, but I was confused more than once on what was going on...and I can't figure out how old Joey is, so there's that.

Joey, don't call her Josephine, works at Bodymore Body Shop (it also took me forever to figure out that Bodymore was the "murder nickname" of Baltimore, which is where this is set) and one night gets a call to come pick up her best friends broken down car in Leakin Park, better known as Murder Park. It's dark out, she's alone, there are weird noises, her friend Wayland is nowhere to be found...and when she gets the car towed back to the body shop, there's a dead body inside. Of course, Wayland is suspect #1, but Joey doesn't think Way could ever do something like this, and he's missing so she can't ask him what the heck happened.

Joey's boyfriend(?) Jag, who also works at the body shop, keeps telling her to stay out of it because she's going to find herself in trouble, or worse, dead. However, Joey won't listen and just keeps digging, trying to find Wayland and figure out how a dead person got in the trunk of his car.

So, Joey can drive a tow truck, she chain smokes, and she drinks a lot, yet she doesn't drive a car and gets around on her skateboard unless Jag is driving her around. I have no idea how old this girl is. What grown adult woman gets around on a skateboard? I do not understand. Then there's also the whole thing where she's at Fort Armistead skating and walking around tunnels that she's been through hundreds of times, and all of a sudden she's dead and in a dead version of Baltimore. What?

All in all, it was an okay book, I was just confused about a lot of stuff. I don't know what else to say. If you think it sounds good, then go ahead and read it, you might light it. I didn't hate it, and I'm reading the next book in the series, so it was interesting enough to keep going.… (plus d'informations)