2B Tuesday #72

Where I highlight a book from my endless to-be-read list. Those books need love too!

Velveteen by Daniel Marks

Release Date: October 9th 2012
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Genre: Young Adult – Fantasy, Paranormal
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Buy it: Amazon | The Book Depository
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Velveteen Monroe is dead. At 16, she was kidnapped and murdered by a madman named Bonesaw. But that’s not the problem.

The problem is she landed in purgatory. And while it’s not a fiery inferno, it’s certainly no heaven. It’s gray, ashen, and crumbling more and more by the day, and everyone has a job to do. Which doesn’t leave Velveteen much time to do anything about what’s really on her mind.

Bonesaw.

Velveteen aches to deliver the bloody punishment her killer deserves. And she’s figured out just how to do it. She’ll haunt him for the rest of his days.

It’ll be brutal... and awesome.

But crossing the divide between the living and the dead has devastating consequences. Velveteen’s obsessive haunting cracks the foundations of purgatory and jeopardizes her very soul. A risk she’s willing to take—except fate has just given her reason to stick around: an unreasonably hot and completely off-limits coworker.

Velveteen can’t help herself when it comes to breaking rules... or getting revenge. And she just might be angry enough to take everyone down with her.

I wanted this book since I saw it making its rounds in ARC form and I finally got it long after it had come out. I think the reason I haven’t read it yet is because it is over 400 pages. That is a weakness of mine. They scare me haha. Then I have also heard some mixed reviews on it, even though it has a decent rating on Goodreads. The synopsis makes it sound so awesome though!   

Have you read this book? What are your thoughts?