Tuesday 13 October 2015

Life After Theft

Life After Theft

Life After Theft is by Aprilynne Pike

Moving to a new high school sucks.  Especially a rich-kid private school. With uniforms.  But nothing is worse than finding out the first girl you meet is dead. And a klepto.

No one can see or hear Kimberlee excpet Jeff, so-- in hopes of bringing an end to the snarkiest haunting in history-- he agrees to help her "unfinished business."  But when the enmity between Kimberlee and Jeff's new crush, Sera, manages to continue posthumously, Jeff wonders if he's made the right choice.

The Breakdown:
1. So when you look at the cover, you think it is about a girl, right, but you would be wrong.  The book is entirely written from Jeff's perspective.  It threw me off a little at first.  One of the taglines held as a modern day retelling of The Scarlet Pimpernel, but I did not get that feel from the story at all.

2.  For me, Pike's characters fell a little flat.  Many of them felt very one dimensional, especially Sera and Khail.  I thought she could have done so much more of them as characters.  It was also weird for me that Jeff had multiple interactions with separately, but never together even though they are sibling and close to each other.

3. This story had the potential to be interesting, and funny, but it just did not work out that way.  There were characters who's story was left a little unresolved.  The ending felt very rushed.

To Read or Not to Read:
Skip this one

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