Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio REVIEW
While taking a quick Forgotten Realms break, I decided to pick up this book again after starting it on the way back from a trip I took with my girlfriend, and while I'd love to say I devoured this book in one sitting back then (which I should've done), that's obviously wrong. It ended up being more of a 2-sitting deal.
Now to get to the actual book: It's a pretty character-centric sort of ensemble novella about a ragtag group of increasingly insomniac people who live in some fictional Uni-Town who can't smoke on campus, leading them all to the same smoke spot: a totally not creepy abandoned cemetery.
Their usual rhythm gets disturbed when a mysterious man digs a new grave and hijinks ensue.
The ensuing hijinks are great, and I love reading about all the different characters, and I honestly enjoyed every single one of them, although you get very limited time with each of them.
However, the ending is where I got a little sad, as it felt like it happened much earlier than I would've liked and expected. It genuinely made me check if my e-reader was fucked up and look for the physical copy in my room.
I know it's silly to cry about an undefined and early ending to a novella of all things, especially since the author's intent was obviously just to be subtle and open-ended, but I'm immature and sad.
Without spoiling the book's contents, it's hard to explain why I dislike the ending, but the book is still very much worth a read (especially since it doesn't take long).
I added another one of the author's books to my to-read list, which also speaks for the quality of this one, but as much as I enjoyed it, I'm still a sad little sausage.
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