Review: The Body Finder

Title: The Body Finder ( The Body Finder 1)
Author: Kimberly Derting
Pages: 327
Published: March 16th 2010 by HarperTeen
Rating: 3/5
Goodreads Summary:
Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes that the dead leave behind in the world... and the imprints that attach to their killers.

Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find the dead birds her cat had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.

Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved to find herself hoping that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer... and becoming his prey herself.

Review:
I in all honesty can't even remember what compelled me to put this book on my to read list. I've never really been one to read murder mysteries unless they were a cozy mystery. The first half of the book was difficult for me as there were many moments where I just wanted to give up. I don't even know how to describe my reasoning for that. It just seemed kind of stupid I guess. After I manged to get past the halfway mark, it started to get better and then I got to the end of the book and now want to read the sequel. It wasn't a wow that is a seriously epic book, it was an decent book. I think that the idea of someone who can sense dead bodies is interesting, and it was bound to be done at some point. But there were just some points in the book where it's like why am i even reading this? So all in all, it just got a 3. Sorry.