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Read this book. I can't believe this is considered a YA book. I guess because the main character is 17. There is no romance or sex or the use of four letter words. It is the work of incredible imagination and talent.

Breezy Lin has one ambition in life: to become an astronaut with first Mars manned exploration. She has planned her entire life out but doesn't anticipate one thing, being murdered at the end of her junior year of high school. She also doesn't plan on being resurrected a year later with the addition of a deadly and strange new power. She can now sense if people are killers and she can kill them. The downside (and there is always a downside) is that she retains the killer's memories.

Level headed and mature, Breezy finds there are others in the world who are not human. Unfortunately there are humans who are more evil and frightening than non-humans and she unwittingly falls into their hands. After rescuing herself, she acquires new friends and finds an ancient, terrifying evil.

I would classify this book as urban fantasy/horror and say it appropriate for kids in middle school and older. It is an engaging read for adults so don't pass it by because of its YA label. I high recommend this entertaining read.,


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Shallow Graves Kali Wallace Books Reviews

This book delivers the premise that even monsters have existential crises and search for meaning in their lives.
Breezy Lin is a seventeen year old girl who was murdered. A year later, she wakes up a zombie with the supernatural ability to kill. However, she limits it to just murderers who deserve it as she hitchhikes across the country and searches for how and why she was brought back from the dead.
Along the way, she runs across a fanatic cultist who wants to "cure" monsters by feeding them to an even worse monster in an old mine. She also befriends a pair of brothers who happen to be ghouls. It asks the questions who is worse, humans or monsters? Do monsters deserve to die simply for being monsters? Are humans who kill justified?
There are no innocent characters here, but that's the point, I think.
The book is well-written and asks serious questions about life and death and those who are different. But it's not boring in the least. It takes all these serious ideas and incorporates them into a great, fast-paced story that keeps your on the edge of your seat. The ending, when Breezy confronts the monster in the mine.......very scary.
I love the fact that none of the questions are neatly wrapped up with a sappy bow-tied answer. Just like real life, nobody understands why they're here, or comes to terms with the unfairness of it all. Faith and hope are lightly brushed upon, but quickly pushed aside as irrelevant. That, more than anything else in the story, filled me with deep sadness.
On the surface, it's a great monster story that any horror or paranormal fan will love.
But it's so much more than that as well. Highly recommended.
To explain why I fell in love with the story of a Breezy Lin, a teenage revenant (not “zombie,” please, our protagonist is neither mindless nor is she into eating brains), I have to ask? How do teens begin to recover from this kind of intense trauma? That question is at the heart of SHALLOW GRAVES. The more I thought about the novel, the more I realized that -- like the best science fiction and fantasy books -- the story serves as a metaphor for difficult things that we confront in real life.

A year after she is murdered, seventeen-year-old Breezy Lin wakes up in a shallow back-yard grave. The circumstances of her revival are mysterious, magical, and as violent as her initial death. Although she wants nothing more than to return, alive, to her life as it was, Breezy is fundamentally a different person because of the trauma she has experienced. She can’t go back to her family or be her old self. Instead, she has to let go of the labels with which she once defined herself (future astronaut – that’s not going to happen) and find new, more complex ways of understanding who she is. METAPHOR.

Breezy’s quest to find out what she is and how she came to be undead takes her to some truly frightening places. Along the way, Breezy is forced to learn how to tell the difference between those who want to help her and those who want to hurt her (a great cast of religious fanatics, ghouls, and one ancient creature so evil, your skin will crawl), a skill she did not have when she was alive.

Breezy is courageous in her willingness to confront the truth. Underneath this tale of imagined monsters is a real road map for survivors. Because the paranormal elements are a metaphor, a lens for looking at real human experience, the reader follows along as Breezy copes with trauma, recognizes that it has changed her forever, and begins the process of being comfortable with who she is now.
This is a good clean " Goose Bumps " style of writing that I would definitely recommend for Junior High school readers. As far as I can tell, the language is nothing more than what most children hear at home and the context would surely be a PG rating if made into a movie.
But if your over sixteen, don't waste your money. Shallow Graves is the first book I've read by Kali Wallace and I must say, if this is her style of writing, it will be my last. That's the problem with reviews. So often the reviews ramble on about the story itself, which I can't understand because you can get all that stuff from summary the author's put on the jacket instead of supplying information about the book other readers might find useful. Like if your an adult, take a pass.
Read this book. I can't believe this is considered a YA book. I guess because the main character is 17. There is no romance or sex or the use of four letter words. It is the work of incredible imagination and talent.

Breezy Lin has one ambition in life to become an astronaut with first Mars manned exploration. She has planned her entire life out but doesn't anticipate one thing, being murdered at the end of her junior year of high school. She also doesn't plan on being resurrected a year later with the addition of a deadly and strange new power. She can now sense if people are killers and she can kill them. The downside (and there is always a downside) is that she retains the killer's memories.

Level headed and mature, Breezy finds there are others in the world who are not human. Unfortunately there are humans who are more evil and frightening than non-humans and she unwittingly falls into their hands. After rescuing herself, she acquires new friends and finds an ancient, terrifying evil.

I would classify this book as urban fantasy/horror and say it appropriate for kids in middle school and older. It is an engaging read for adults so don't pass it by because of its YA label. I high recommend this entertaining read.,