Title: The Fetch
Author: Laura Whitcomb
Category: Fiction, Young Adult
Why I Read It: It released in 2009, and I was in the mood for something new.

Summary: Calder is a death escort who breaks his sacred vows to enter the body of a dying man.

Stopped on Page: 159
Why I Stopped: The subtitle on the cover is A Supernatural Romance. On page 159, I was still waiting for the romance to pick up in earnest, so I stopped.

Maybe if that subtitle hadn’t been there, I wouldn’t have stopped. I generally don’t like to read more than a sentence or two about a book’s plot before I read the book myself. But in this case, I think reading a more thorough plot summary might have helped set my expectations.

Regardless of missed expectations, though, the book was a tad morbid for my taste.

Should I have kept going? Or was I right to stop?

Note: As an aspiring author, I respect the extraordinary amount of effort that goes into writing a book. I did not write this review in order to be unfair or negative about the book. My goal is simply to articulate why the book wasn’t for me.

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