Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead
Things
By: Martina McAtee
17 year old Ember Denning has made an art of isolating herself. She prefers the dead. She spends her days skipping school in old cemeteries and her nights hiding from her alcoholic father at the funeral home where she works. When her own father dies, Ember learns her whole life is a lie. Standing in the cemetery that’s been her sanctuary, she’s threatened by the most beautiful boy she’s ever seen and rescued by two people who claim to be her family. They say she’s special, that she has a supernatural gift like them…they just don’t know exactly what it is.
They take her to a small Florida town, where Ember’s life takes a turn for the weird. She’s living with her reaper cousins, an orphaned werewolf pack, a faery and a human genius. Ember’s powers are growing stronger, morphing into something bigger than anything anybody anticipated. Ember has questions but nobody has answers. Nobody knows what she is. They only know her mysterious magical gift is trying to kill them and that beautiful dangerous boy from the cemetery may be the only thing standing between her and death.
As Ember’s talents are revealed so are the secrets her father hid and those in power who would seek to destroy her. What’s worse, saving Ember has put her cousins in danger and turned her friend’s lives upside down. Ember must learn to embrace her magic or risk losing the family she’s pieced together.
They take her to a small Florida town, where Ember’s life takes a turn for the weird. She’s living with her reaper cousins, an orphaned werewolf pack, a faery and a human genius. Ember’s powers are growing stronger, morphing into something bigger than anything anybody anticipated. Ember has questions but nobody has answers. Nobody knows what she is. They only know her mysterious magical gift is trying to kill them and that beautiful dangerous boy from the cemetery may be the only thing standing between her and death.
As Ember’s talents are revealed so are the secrets her father hid and those in power who would seek to destroy her. What’s worse, saving Ember has put her cousins in danger and turned her friend’s lives upside down. Ember must learn to embrace her magic or risk losing the family she’s pieced together.
This is the first book I’ve ever read of Martina’s. I was
immediately drawn in by the title alone. I’m such a sucker for creepy books.
When I started the book, I was a little confused. The
introduction of so many characters at once really threw me. I sat there
thinking “I don’t understand how the title fits with this book”. Then the more
I read, the more I understood.
This book was a BEAST. I haven’t read anything that huge in
a looooong time. But it was so awesome to have it be so huge. It had soooo much
stinking detail, it was unbelievable. Every page had a twist or turn. Nothing
was off limits. I felt like I was thrown into this crazy paranormal world of
not only dead things, but witches, shifters, werewolves, reapers, and so so
much more! Like sooooo much more.
This book had everything a girl could ever want in a
paranormal book. It was like reading the dark version of Harry Potter. It read
like the True Blood series but whimsical like Harry Potter. The perfect combination of the two.
Not even one character was weak. Martina knows how to bring
her characters to life like no other. And after the initial confusion of the
character introduction, I was so glad I got to see all of the sides to the
story and live all of their lives.
Five HUGE gold stars for Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead
Things. When I think I can handle another beastie book, I’ll dig into book two.
I can’t wait to find out what happens next
-Courtney Moctezuma
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