The Body Finder Review

The Body Finder By Kimberly Derting (Book 1 In The Body Finder Series)

Violet lives in a small town called Buckly and is a body finder, something she has inherited from her granma. When somebody has been killed it calls to her, in smell, taste, feelings or sight and she then goes out to find the body, when she finds it she take it with her and give it a funeral, and then the feelings settle down. Mostly it is just animals, but when Violet was 8, she found af 14 year old dead girl, Emilee, in the woods. But it is not just the one killed that has a certain energi, it is also the one killing, and the killer and the prey has the same mark energi to it. But after sometime it slowly fades, but never really goes away. Violet has just started her junior year in high school and her best friend is Jay Heaton and they have been since they were 6. But recently Violet has been having romantic feeling for Jay, but tries to get them to go away. Jay has change a lot over the summer and girls are suddenly swamming all over him. At a party a couple of days after to celebrate the end of summer, Jay and Violet take a trip on a wave runner together, but on their way back to the party Violet get a feeling and finds a dead girl hidden behind a plant. A week after another girl is found dead, (her body caring different colors - to Violet). A week or so after the party Grady, one of her and Jay friends since they were little, ask Violet to the homecoming ball, and she say yes, eventhough she really wants to go with Jay. Jay seems mad about her choice, he therefore ditches Violet after school that day and gets a date of his own, Lissie Adams a senior and the most popular girl in school. But he later apologize to Violet.

Not soon after the second girl, Hailey a thirteen year old girl, that Violet used to babysit, is reported missing and now Violet doesn´t wanna sit around doing nothing. So she calls Jay, and after a lot of convincing he agrees to help her go to places so she can find the killer with her powers. They going to public places and after 2 days Violet gets a strong taste and thinks she has found the killer, she leaves Jay and almost confront what she thinks is the killer but only a kid, until Jay comes. Jay is pissed at her and starts to ignore her, while Grady is giving her extra attention. After the incident Violet has to find a new way at finding the killer, so she goes with Grady to were the first murdered girl Brooke is burried, to find her mark, which is bells, so she easy can find the killer when she has two marks to go after. The next friday Violet goes to a party with her friends, and has to drive Grady home by midnight because he is way drunk, but out by his car he holds Violet down and tries to kiss her, eventhough she tells him to stop. Jay shows up and get Grady away from her and treatens her to never touch her again. Violet gets mad at Jay, for telling her to get into his car and she walks away, but is soon stopped by Jay who kisses her. The morning after Violet finds out that a girl from the party yesterday named Mackenzie is missing. She joins the search party in the woods, and quickly realises that the killer is there in the woods, protecting another body he has burried, so nobody will find it. She calls her uncle and he arrests the man, while her father take her home. After a couple of hours Jay comes over, and they discuss their kiss and he tells her that he always knew that they would be together one day, he was just waiting for her and he was trying to make her confess it by talking with the other girls. The next day her uncle comes by and tells her that the man confessed to everything, even the girl Violet found when she was 8. But that he doesn´t know where Mackenzie is, and her uncle is certain that he is lying, so he needs Violet´s help. They go out to the mans house, where she get some energi feelings, but not strong to be Mackenzie.

A couple of days after Violet is out running in the woods, because Jay had to get home, when suddenly she is being chased by a man, a predator. She tries to run home, but end up the opposite way, she suddenly hear Jay calling her, but suddenly without thinking she has falling in the river. She wakes up in the ambulance and at the hospital she tells Jay and her family that she was being chased, and her uncle tells that that must be the missing peace, that the man had a partner. And if i hadn´t been for Jay coming to meet her in the woods, there ís no telling what could have happened. Now Violet has a sprained ancle, that could take months to be good again. The homecoming ball is coming up, but he parents is not comfortable letting her out of sight and then there is her ancle. So she is suprised when JAy is telling her that they are going. At the ball, Violet and some of her friends is at the bathroom the longest from the party, because the others where occupied, so when Violet has to rebind her ancle, she tells the others to go back. But after they leave the man that chased her come in, and he even works for the police. He hauls her away, but Jay comes and they escape, but the man has a gun and he shoots. We later find out that Jay got hit, but not right and that her uncle killed the man.

I thought that this was a really good book, but the whole book almost got ruined when i thought in the end that it was Jay who was dead, when i thought that i got really mad and thought that the author had ruined the whole thing, so i scrolled a couple of pages and found out that he was still alive. fehhw, happy again. I really enjoyed reading about Jay and her feelings for each other and it was really cute, like the kind of thing all people should have. I also enjoyed that her family was that close as they were. I also really like the cover eventhought it is simple but it is also intrigued. The book was sometime creepy, which is a good thing and suspensefull and really believable.


Grade: 10