The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

For only four quid off Amazon, I instantly thought “bargain” so I decided to get The Body Finder along with a few other books, even though I didn’t know to much about the book bar the title and basic plotline, but I have been pleasantly surprised before by books and this was no different. The basic plot line had me before I even opened the first page, the title pretty much explained all. The Body Finder is the story of Violet, a girl born with the unnatural ability for sense and find dead bodies. Some of the times its just dead birds that her cats dragged in, but sometimes its not. When she was only eight Violet finds the body of a murdered girl, and now years later a serial killer is on the loose in her town and Violet keeps finding the bodies, and the killer knows that something up with Violet , so he sets his eyes on her. All this is going on between the sudden regular teen drama of Violets best friend turning hot and falling in love with him.

I am the type of person who likes a bit off creepiness and stalking paralleled with some romance. I know I’m a strange one, but both are shown really well in The Body Finder, Violets searching for a killer while getting stalked and followed by him while balancing out the drama of just being a normal teenager, well a normal teenager with a really weird and morbid ability.

The Body Finder isn’t particularly complex which can be seen as a negative by some but there is still the air of mystery and confusion in the novel. It is a relatively short book compared to some at roughly three hundred pages. I found this the perfect book for some light reading because the plot instantly gets you and you don’t have to wade through two hundred pages to get to the real nitty gritty of the book. Its just the right book to curl up with before bed or on a train. I actually read most of this book while waiting to watch a theatre show that was very late starting and was rubbish, in the end I preferred the book than the horrid amateur production of Hamlet that forever ruined a classic.

I particularly like the cover art, the bright blue on black is just so vibrant it kept drawing my attention when it was on my desk, just prompting me to read it faster. The sequel ( I will be buying that very soon) has a similar cover art but in pink, I gotta say in a fan of this! What's really bugging me is that the third book has a miss matched cover. It annoys me so much that I'm spending a bomb on buying all three books hardback from America! 

Overall The Body finder was definitely worth the read. It will be going into my collection of favourite books on my desk, alongside the other books I have re-read so many times. It’s a solid eight out of ten from me!