 | Title: Queen of the Dead
 Sexual Content: Kissing. References to homosexuality Rating:
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Description
After being sent back from the light, Alona Dare - former homecoming queen, current Queen of the Dead - finds herself doing something she never expected: working. Instead of spending days perfecting her tan by the pool (her typical summer routine when she was, you know, alive), Alona must now cater to the needs of other lost spirits. By her side for all of this - ugh - “helping of others” is Will Killian: social outcast, seer of the dead, and someone Alona cares about more than she’d like.
Before Alona can make a final ruling on Will’s “friend” or “more” status, though, she discovers trouble at home. Her mom is tossing out Alona’s most valuable possessions, and her dad is expecting a new daughter with his wicked wife. Is it possible her family is already moving on? Hello! She’s only been dead for two months! Thankfully, Alona knows just the guy who can put a stop to this mess.
Unfortunately for Alona, Will has other stuff on his mind, and Mina, a young (and beautiful) seer, is at the top of the list. She’s the first ghost-talker Will’s ever met—aside from his father—and she may hold answers to Will’s troubled past. But can she be trusted? Alona immediately puts a check mark in the “clearly not” column. But Will is - ahem - willing to find out, even if it means leaving a hurt and angry Alona to her own devices, which is never a good idea.
Packed with romance, lovable characters, and a killer cliffhanger, Queen of the Dead is the out-of-this-world sequel to The Ghost and the Goth.
Review
After THE GHOST AND THE GOTH, I’m no longer shocked by how much I enjoy this series. The characters are anything but cardboard, Kade handles both the male and female POVs of her protagonists with equal aplomb, and in this sequel deepens and expands her world without breaking the rules she initially set for it.
Will and Alona. I didn’t realize how much I missed them until I read first chapters of QUEEN OF THE DEAD. I loved learning more about the source of Will’s ghost-talker abilities and appreciated the new characters who represented the opposing side of the help the dead/help the living issue. I thought it was very thoughtful to explore a different opinion and forced me (along with Will and Alona) to look at the bigger picture in a way I would have never considered.
On a more personal level, the relationship between Will and Alona is still fascinating and complicated, more so for Will than Alona. She deals very well with being dead, but Will doesn’t have it so easy. They are attracted to each other, but Alona still has a lot of ‘mean girl’ in her that she doesn’t struggle with quite as much as Will would like. It culminates in an ending that was so shocking and yet was inevitable the more I thought about it. Honestly, I can’t wait to see where they go from here.
I flew through QUEEN OF THE DEAD not even realizing that hours had gone by until I did a double take at the clock. It’s the kind of book that refuses to be put down. Despite the taunt from the description, the cliffhanger is survivable (barely), but it is a killer set up for the still untitled third book in The Ghost and the Goth series. However long it takes, it will be worth the wait.
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