Sarah Mac’s Reviews > If the Reaper Ride > Status Update

Oops, scratch the half-sibling incest. My small brain was confused by two dead guys named John. :P

Trapped in a coffin! This book is so very Tim Burton. >:)

'Before us, ____ lay on her back on the floor, looking up at us with staring, sightless eyes. Her mouth hung open in a silent scream. A deep, red cavity indented her skull at the hairline. Blood had trickled from her nose to the corner of her mouth & then to her chin.'

Half-sibling incest! :D

'Something brushed my forehead & the tip of my nose & fell around my shoulders. I remember thinking it was a cobweb & reached up to brush it away, but it wasn't a cobweb--it was a rope or cord, & it encircled my throat tightly. Then it was jerked from above with enormous power, pulling me backward.' ....*dun-dun-DUN*

That awkward moment when your estranged mother confesses to being a happy little slut.

'A girl might be short & ugly, or fat as a cow, or have three eyes, but if she had money & family...Well, they knew I had money, & now they had learned about my family. Suppose I had suddenly said, "I have a most peculiar taste for blood--any kind of blood." What would happen? And I almost laughed aloud.'

Suzanne has bonded with an abused horse named Thunder. Cosmic! I just finished another book where a different heroine bonds with an abused horse. What's with all the bookish horse rescue lately? :P

'When we reached the hilltop & drew up in front of the mausoleum, now gray in the gray light, the attendants lifted the coffin from the hearse & carried it up the steps & into the building. It wore a blanket of scarlet roses, & as they carried it, the screeching puffs of wind blew the petals from the flowers & threw them into the air like red confetti.'