Never will this girl stop being a powerhouse.ĭriggs, her boyfriend, is just as charmingly rumpled as he was in the first book. Lex seems a bit softened by her time spent among good friends who understand her, but she definitely has not lost her hard edge just because she's happy with a boyfriend. She doesn't love easily, but, when she does, she will stop at nothing to protect the people she loves. She's clever, violent, and has a powerful sense of justice.
Lex, of course, is our indomitable heroine. All of our old favorites are back: Lex, Ferbus, Elysia, Driggs, Mort, and more, but there are also a few wonderful new characters added into the mix. They're all, almost to a Grim, sarcastic, intelligent and people that I want to be friends with. This lends a darker, more serious feel to what, on the surface, appear to be lighthearded comedies about grim reapers.Īre you worried now about who will be killed? You should be, because Damico's characters are wonderful and just bursting with life. A lot of YA authors cringe away from things like that, even when turning their hands to dystopias, but not so Damico.
She kills off and damages beloved characters when you're least expecting it and in ways you never could have anticipated. Gina Damico's book may rank as humor first, but don't forget the dark part. Something I had forgotten about the end of Croak was that someone died. While, I didn't fall quite as in love with Scorch, though I cannot put my finger on quite why, it's still a wonderful sequel, hilarious and satisfying. As such, Scorch was one of my most anticipated books and I was lucky enough to get an ARC at BEA. She has a way of making even the weirdest things sound believable. She has this great, dark, absurdist sense of humor that I cannot get enough of. Gina Damico's Croak ranks as one of the funniest books I've ever read.
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