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Gravedigger
In the small town of Arnica Springs, Montana, your whole world can be encompassed in a matter of miles, and life, death, and a circle of hope and despair can be experienced in the bond created between two damaged teenagers. In the novel, "Gravedigger" Blake McClendon's entire life is surrounded in death and decay, from the town he lives into his father's profession as a mortician. Blake dreams of finding a way out of his oppressive world and create a new identity for himself. On a cold autumn day Blake meets Annie McKinley, a girl damaged in a tragic accident, and the brief conversation changes both of their lives. As fall turns to winter, Blake and Annie begin to fall in love, a love that blooms under a cloud of impending doom. Blake and Annie grow closer, navigating their way through a minefield of personal damage and social pressures; but unknown to them, a greater threat hunts them than the decay of The Springs. Annie is being watched by her next-door neighbor, a serial killer waiting for the time to strike again. A battle for life and death is rushing toward them, unseen and monstrous, waiting for them both on an abandoned train track on the edge of town. Life, death, and sacrifice are woven together in this suspenseful story of love and survival.
264 pages, Paperback
First published September 17, 2012
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June 2, 2013
The way Gravedigger is writen and the choice of characters is incredible.
Blake a young man who only knows the life of a druck abusive mother and a father who works with the dead, digs graves for the family business and saves up for college by stealing the gems of the ones he puts six feet under. His best friend Flick a bright red head boy who use to watch the gold fish at the local shop with Blake at 6 years old is also in a relationship with the worst girl, Jenna, the very poor popular girl whom no longer cares enough except to bring a person down. Black and Jenna hate one another though it takes flick awhile to notice. And Annie, the girl who once was like Jenna, always partying and drinking with the schools football team. She was heartbroken and a stupid girl on the rode. Once out of the car accident a scar down the side of her "once so pretty face" is all the people in Springs notices about her. She visits the graveyard a lot since her first near death experence and talks to her grandfather, admires the old grave stones just like Blake. He drive a '96 Escort, unknowing that its also the car a man was murdered in, and the merder was never found. Mr.Blackmore now lives right across from Annies house reliving the '96 Escorts past owner and his death. "How nice it might be to kill in it, again..." 13 unsolved murders, whos next?
The romance between to troubled teens, verbal abuse between "friends" and finding a way out dead or alive. I found the writing format easy and quick. I loved the characters and their reasoning in life and death. The conflict and plots seem for a thoughtful reader. Someone who can care, worry and love, at least for something.
I gave this book five stars because theres a part in the book where Annie thinks of death and what other teens most likely think of how they may die. Probably by anything but murder.
Blake a young man who only knows the life of a druck abusive mother and a father who works with the dead, digs graves for the family business and saves up for college by stealing the gems of the ones he puts six feet under. His best friend Flick a bright red head boy who use to watch the gold fish at the local shop with Blake at 6 years old is also in a relationship with the worst girl, Jenna, the very poor popular girl whom no longer cares enough except to bring a person down. Black and Jenna hate one another though it takes flick awhile to notice. And Annie, the girl who once was like Jenna, always partying and drinking with the schools football team. She was heartbroken and a stupid girl on the rode. Once out of the car accident a scar down the side of her "once so pretty face" is all the people in Springs notices about her. She visits the graveyard a lot since her first near death experence and talks to her grandfather, admires the old grave stones just like Blake. He drive a '96 Escort, unknowing that its also the car a man was murdered in, and the merder was never found. Mr.Blackmore now lives right across from Annies house reliving the '96 Escorts past owner and his death. "How nice it might be to kill in it, again..." 13 unsolved murders, whos next?
The romance between to troubled teens, verbal abuse between "friends" and finding a way out dead or alive. I found the writing format easy and quick. I loved the characters and their reasoning in life and death. The conflict and plots seem for a thoughtful reader. Someone who can care, worry and love, at least for something.
I gave this book five stars because theres a part in the book where Annie thinks of death and what other teens most likely think of how they may die. Probably by anything but murder.
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