I’m back! And I’m here with a review of Beth Revis’s new dark fantasy novel, Give the Dark My Love.
I’m not gonna lie guys, this book ate my heart for dinner. Without getting into spoiler territory, what I can say is that this book is just as much about grief as it is about necromancy.
The emotional threads running though the book are even more compelling than the external plot (which is also pretty great). Nedra and Grey are so different, and their differences help drive their relationship and the plot.
Honestly the characters are all well written, but what struck me the most was the non-point-of-view characters. In a lot of fast paced stories like this one, secondary characters tend to get simplified or reduced to archetypes. In this story, I found a lot of those archetypes subverted or expanded upon, and it really made a difference in how real the secondary characters felt.
Now, I do feel like I should mention that there is significant gore in this book, quite a bit more than I’m used to seeing in YA. While it all felt organic and relevant to the plot, it was very disturbing at times. If you don’t do explicit gore and violence, this is not for you. (I mean, it’s about necromancy, so, be prepared for really gross dead body things. Seriously, reader discretion advised)
In any case this is an incredible book with so much heart and if you can stomach the gory bits, you’re in for a really compelling story.
Kat Pollock 