Name: The Mortician's Daughter
ISBN: 9781635555943

Nan Higgins

A singer on the verge of stardom discovers she must give up her dreams to live a life in service to ghosts.

The Mortician's Daughter

Megan Cooper

As the first in a series, Ms Higgins has the daunting task of introducing characters, situations doing some worldbuilding in a relatively short amount of page space. It's an interesting premise - the idea that there's a whole organization (corporation) that works under the radar to process those who have died and help them cross over - conveniently hidden within the world of mortician's and funeral homes. 

When Aria Jasper discovers, much to her and her parent's dismay, that she is a late bloomer and has the ability to see and interact with the dead, her plans of becoming a professional singer and moving to the coast are pretty much gutted. Forced into a training program, Aria finds out just how much information her parent's have hidden from her and her disappointment and suspicion grows - further fed by a recurring ghost of a woman who keeps begging for Aria's assistance.

This is more of a Young Adult novel - and at times I found the main character Aria to be a bit more on the Young side than the Adult side and none of the characters really resonated with me or felt completely developed. There was a lot going on in the book - but things felt rushed and superficial, leaving me with questions and the feeling that I was missing something. 

I'm hoping that the next book in the series will give a bit more depth to both the characters and the worldbuilding

Geneviève Rouleau

DNF at 55%

Okay so this is the second book I read lately that is advertised like being a ghost story. But there's absolutely nothing creepy or remotely scary about it. Which is kinda disappointing 😅

It took me a while to realize why the main character bothered me so much : she sounds sooooo young and immature, definitely not like a university grad. If she had been 16, it would've been a lot more believable. I also didn't understand how she abandoned her life-long dream without much of a fight. That's another problem : there is a whoooooole lot of talk in this book, and not much action. 

Anyways. This story can definitely be an entertaining fast read. But I never actually felt like picking it up, that's why I ended up DNFing it. Enough is enough 😅 Oh. Also. Insta Love.

The Mortician's Daughter

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