Monday, October 21, 2019

How to Live an Undead Lie by Hailey Edwards [Review]

How to Live an Undead Lie by Hailey Edwards
How to Live an Undead Lie (The Beginner's Guide to Necromancy #5) by Hailey Edwards
Format: ebook
Source: provided for review
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Date read: December 13, 2018

The Beginner's Guide to Necromancy
1. How to Save an Undead Life
2. How to Claim an Undead Soul
3. How to Break an Undead Heart
4. How to Dance an Undead Waltz
5. How to Live an Undead LiePaperback | Kindle
6. How to Wake an Undead City
7. How to Kiss an Undead Bride
8. How to Survive an Undead Honeymoon
9. How to Rattle an Undead Couple

Related Series:
(find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
The Potentate of Atlanta
1. Shadow of Doubt

Hailey Edwards
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
When a fledgling vampire arrives at Woolworth House searching for his maker, Grier is forced to relive her time in Atramentous. Most of those years are as dark and empty in her memory as she was in her cell. She can't remember her progeny, or the night she resuscitated him, but she can protect him from the Society. As long as she's willing to barter with her grandfather to do it.

But Lacroix has plans of his own. He envisions the city--her city--under his rule, and Grier under his thumb. Now all he needs is the right leverage to force her cooperation, and he has just the person in mind. Grier is ready to trade her freedom until a grim truth is revealed that splits her heart in two. Yet another person she loves has betrayed her, and Grier is left agonizing over how much of their relationship is real and how much was a lie.
Thoughts on How to Live an Undead Lie: Every time I pick up a new Grier book, I marvel over how far she's come from the nearly broken girl freshly released from Atramentous to a powerful woman with friends who will have her back no matter the cost to them. Side note: Linus's devotion to Grier makes me so ridiculously happy. I mean, her newfound friends are fabulous and everything, but Linus has been there for her since before she noticed him and I ADORE that.

So. Things are progressing on the romance front. Things are cautiously moving forward on the old-friends front. Grier is forming alliances and putting things into motion that could have far-reaching effects.

She's also learning more about what she's capable of. Which is good, but it's also opening her up to remembering the events that led to her being imprisoned in the first place. Which is, again, good, but it's a lot for the poor girl to take in.

On the plus side, all those friends I mentioned above (both new and old) provide plenty of people for Grier to lean on when things get tough.

And yeah, maybe there's some betrayal, but Grier's stronger than she thinks and her true friends won't abandon her when the bad things happen. *draws glittery hearts around Savannah's newest power couple*

The series continues to amaze and delight and I'm SO on board with whatever comes up next.

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