Language: PG (5 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: PG13; Violence: R
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL
APPEALS TO: SEVERAL
Reapers serve Death by collecting and delivering human souls at their death—but Ren is only half-Reaper. Ren’s mother was a Shinigami from Japan, and Ren’s less than ideal pedigree has made her a target for Reapers for centuries. When it gets bad enough that Ren has to flee for her life, her half-brother, Neven, leaves with her to go to the only place Ren might belong: Japan.
The various mythology around death, and especially for Japanese monsters, was fascinating as Baker introduced Ren and readers to dark planes that are parallel to ours. Ren faces a hundred difficult decisions as she struggles with who she has been and who she wants to be, which makes a mess of who she is. The ending was not at all what I expected, and I’m interested to see where the sequels takes us.
Ren is British-Japanese, Neven is British, and Hiro is Japanese. The mature content rating is for mentions of alcohol, prostitution, and nudity; kissing; innuendo; and scary elements. The violence rating is for corpses, death, assault, murder, fantasy violence, and persistent blood and gore.
Reviewer: Carolina Herdegen
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