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After a deadly train crash, the afterlife is waiting for Dylan. But that's only if she and her intriguing Ferryman can make it across the demon-infested wasteland--and if she can bear to let him go. When Dylan wakes up after her train has crashed, she thinks she has survived unscathed. But she couldn't be more mistaken: the bleak landscape around her isn't Scotland, it's a wasteland--a terrain somehow shaped by her own feelings and fears, a border to whatever awaits her in the afterlife. And the stranger sitting by the train track isn't an ordinary teenage boy. Tristan is a Ferryman, tasked with guiding Dylan's soul safely across the treacherous landscape, a journey he has made a thousand times before. Only this time, something's different. The crossing, as ever, is perilous, with ravenous wraiths hounding the two at each day's end, hungry for Dylan's soul. But as Dylan focuses her strength on survival, with Tristan as protector, challenger, and confidant, she begins to wonder where she is truly meant to be--and what she must risk to get there. An international bestseller with a phenomenal following, the award-winning Ferryman (with its sequels Trespassers and Outcasts) is in development to be a major motion picture.
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2 primary booksFerryman is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by Claire McFall.
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I always feel bad when a publisher sends me a book and I hate but here we are. It didn't start out very strong; any book that needs a prologue to draw the reader in makes me wary. The actual opening scene was weak and the MC has no personality, other than she thinks she's different and the other kids are “sheep, all of them.” (Cue eye roll.) Then the accident happens, which did nothing to actually propel the plot forward, despite my optimism. The story drags endlessly and eventually there's a conclusion that made little sense to me (although in retrospect, it sets it up for a sequel). McFall's writing isn't actually bad but the characters are formless and the story premise is thin, consequently its not what I consider readable.
I was sent a free copy of this book for review by Walker Books.