Morbidly Yours

Both swoon-worthy and macabre, Morbidly Yours is an entertaining romance full of will-they-won't-they chemistry. I don't know if I fully connected with the characters/story, but I did have a fun time and appreciate the things this novel did well.

POSITIVES

♡ I thought this was an interesting take on grief, more focused on the guilt of moving on and the fear of hurting/getting hurt again.

♡ I liked that the diversity was not limited to the supporting cast and was treated respectfully. It was cool seeing the love interest's demisexuality play out as part of this slow burn romance, and it definitely made me root for their relationship.

♡ I enjoyed the way Gaeilge was incorporated throughout the book. I don't know if the author is Irish/has visited, but it seemed well researched to me (not an Irish person).

NEGATIVES

♡ My biggest complaint with this book is that it often felt like a chapter would end in the middle of a scene — I kept being surprised when I would turn the page to find the start of another chapter in another perspective in a completely different scene, and then never circling back around to see the actual scene. It felt abrupt to me, and I wonder if the book was meant to be longer but was edited down to this length.

♡ The central antagonist was a little over-the-top for me, and I think it could have been grounded by a deeper motivation for his actions.

♡ The story was predictable for me, but I don't think that's always necessarily a bad thing. There were just certain points where I knew what was going to happen and felt a little impatient waiting for the characters to catch up, ie. when her workplace nemesis steals her art/concept to get a leg up on the promotion.