My thoughts
I read this book fairly fast. It was interesting but didn't WOW me like I had hoped it would. I enjoyed it but also got aggravated with the characters. I also gagged in places. When it talked about the thing that Weatherly did after she brought or attempted to bring a person back from the brink of death.
This book is about a family who lives in Georgia. In a small town in Appalachia. Weatherly Opal Wilder is a death talker. She talks death out of people. Or tries too. That is the aggravating part of this story. Seem to me that every time she attempted to do this the person did die and she was blamed for their death. So what kind of gift does she really have? It's more like a curse if you ask me. I liked Weatherly for the most part. She wanted nothing more than to find out who killed her cousin. She had a hard life. Her mother left her and she didn't know who her father was. Her grandmother was mean. Not a likable woman at all.
Many truths are exposed in this story and a few deaths. A few secrets are revealed also. I found this book to be pretty good but not jaw dropping great. It held my interest enough to keep reading. Except the parts that made me literally gag. I couldn't help it. It was pretty gross to me. But it is what it is. How can you be called a Death Talker if you don't talk out death. If you can't make it leave. Or is that what it's suppose to do. Whatever. I think this book would have been better if Weatherly's mother would have come back when there was a death in the family. Or at least if she would have been in some way a part of Weatherly's life. She was suppose to love her so much. I didn't buy that.
I loved Rook. I wish there would have been more about him. I think he may have been the most interesting character in this story in many ways. I did love how the author wrapped things up in the epilogue though. I was hoping things would make a turn for them...
Overall I think this book was good but not wowing. It was gross in places but I understand that it was a big part of the story. It was about family drama and not a lot of love there. Oh and I liked Bone Layer a lot.
This book has a bit of a magical presence. A lot of a mystery and a lot of drama. It shows what life is like for someone who is poor as opposed to the rich family. There was a few things I wish would have been closed but for the most part I was satisfied with the ending.
Thank you #NetGalley, #DanaElmendorf, #HarlequingTradePublishing, for this ARC. This is my own true thoughts about this book.
3.5 stars.
This book is about a family who lives in Georgia. In a small town in Appalachia. Weatherly Opal Wilder is a death talker. She talks death out of people. Or tries too. That is the aggravating part of this story. Seem to me that every time she attempted to do this the person did die and she was blamed for their death. So what kind of gift does she really have? It's more like a curse if you ask me. I liked Weatherly for the most part. She wanted nothing more than to find out who killed her cousin. She had a hard life. Her mother left her and she didn't know who her father was. Her grandmother was mean. Not a likable woman at all.
Many truths are exposed in this story and a few deaths. A few secrets are revealed also. I found this book to be pretty good but not jaw dropping great. It held my interest enough to keep reading. Except the parts that made me literally gag. I couldn't help it. It was pretty gross to me. But it is what it is. How can you be called a Death Talker if you don't talk out death. If you can't make it leave. Or is that what it's suppose to do. Whatever. I think this book would have been better if Weatherly's mother would have come back when there was a death in the family. Or at least if she would have been in some way a part of Weatherly's life. She was suppose to love her so much. I didn't buy that.
I loved Rook. I wish there would have been more about him. I think he may have been the most interesting character in this story in many ways. I did love how the author wrapped things up in the epilogue though. I was hoping things would make a turn for them...
Overall I think this book was good but not wowing. It was gross in places but I understand that it was a big part of the story. It was about family drama and not a lot of love there. Oh and I liked Bone Layer a lot.
This book has a bit of a magical presence. A lot of a mystery and a lot of drama. It shows what life is like for someone who is poor as opposed to the rich family. There was a few things I wish would have been closed but for the most part I was satisfied with the ending.
Thank you #NetGalley, #DanaElmendorf, #HarlequingTradePublishing, for this ARC. This is my own true thoughts about this book.
3.5 stars.
About
In a small town in Appalachia, people paint their doorways blue to keep spirits away.
Black ferns grow where death will follow.
And Weatherly Opal Wilder is a Death Talker.
When called upon, she can talk the death out of the dying and save their lives; only once, never twice. But this truly unique gift comes at a price, rooting Weatherly to people who only want her around when they need her and resent her backwater ways when they don’t.
Weatherly’s cousin Adaire also has a gift, she’s a Scryer and can see the future reflected back in dark surfaces. Right before she is killed in an accident, Adaire saw something unnerving, and that’s why Weatherly believes she was murdered—never thinking for a moment that it was an accident. But when Weatherly, for the first time, is unable to talk the death out of the mayor’s son, the whole town suspects she is out for revenge, that she wouldn’t save him.
With the help of clues Adaire left behind and her family’s Granny Witch recipe box, Weatherly sets out to find the truth behind her cousin’s death, whatever it takes.
Imbued with magic, witchery, and suspense, Dana Elmendorf’s In the Hour of Crows is a thrilling tale of friendship, identity, and love.
Black ferns grow where death will follow.
And Weatherly Opal Wilder is a Death Talker.
When called upon, she can talk the death out of the dying and save their lives; only once, never twice. But this truly unique gift comes at a price, rooting Weatherly to people who only want her around when they need her and resent her backwater ways when they don’t.
Weatherly’s cousin Adaire also has a gift, she’s a Scryer and can see the future reflected back in dark surfaces. Right before she is killed in an accident, Adaire saw something unnerving, and that’s why Weatherly believes she was murdered—never thinking for a moment that it was an accident. But when Weatherly, for the first time, is unable to talk the death out of the mayor’s son, the whole town suspects she is out for revenge, that she wouldn’t save him.
With the help of clues Adaire left behind and her family’s Granny Witch recipe box, Weatherly sets out to find the truth behind her cousin’s death, whatever it takes.
Imbued with magic, witchery, and suspense, Dana Elmendorf’s In the Hour of Crows is a thrilling tale of friendship, identity, and love.
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