Title: Post Mortem
Author: Kira Snyder
Series: Parish Mail #2
Publisher: Coliloquy
Publication Date: February 7, 2013
Format Read: kindle
Genre: YA Paranormal, YA Crime Mystery
Purchase: Amazon
Description from the publisher:
Celia Macarty is back in Post Mortem, the second installment in the Parish Mail saga.
Autumn in New Orleans means Homecoming, romance—and murder. When a friend vanishes, Celia believes a desperate letter about an unsolved Civil War-era murder holds the key to unraveling the mystery.
As she searches for answers, Celia enlists the help of quirky witch Tilly, and either all-American boy Donovan or, enigmatic Luc–you get to choose.
As the gang follows the missing girl’s trail, danger turns up on all fronts. A vicious stranger threatens Celia’s family. Celia’s nightmares–about a shadowy, ominous villain–get worse. And a new ghost has appeared: beautiful Angelica, who shares a past with Luc.
It will take all of Celia’s will and wit, and the faith of her friends, to solve an unspeakable crime. And no matter which path Celia takes, she will discover that sometimes the past can come back to haunt you.
What’s Cool from Coliloquy: Throughout the Parish Mail series, readers decide which clues to follow to help Celia unravel each mystery. You’ll even get to cast a vote for your favorite love interest. But remember: Choose carefully, or else the killer might just get away.
Celia Macarty is back in Post Mortem, the second installment in the Parish Mail saga.
Autumn in New Orleans means Homecoming, romance—and murder. When a friend vanishes, Celia believes a desperate letter about an unsolved Civil War-era murder holds the key to unraveling the mystery.
As she searches for answers, Celia enlists the help of quirky witch Tilly, and either all-American boy Donovan or, enigmatic Luc–you get to choose.
As the gang follows the missing girl’s trail, danger turns up on all fronts. A vicious stranger threatens Celia’s family. Celia’s nightmares–about a shadowy, ominous villain–get worse. And a new ghost has appeared: beautiful Angelica, who shares a past with Luc.
It will take all of Celia’s will and wit, and the faith of her friends, to solve an unspeakable crime. And no matter which path Celia takes, she will discover that sometimes the past can come back to haunt you.
What’s Cool from Coliloquy: Throughout the Parish Mail series, readers decide which clues to follow to help Celia unravel each mystery. You’ll even get to cast a vote for your favorite love interest. But remember: Choose carefully, or else the killer might just get away.
Post Mortem is another Active Fiction book. I have to say I really liked it. I liked it even better than the first book. One of the reasons for this is all of the character setup is out of the way and I was able to get right down to the story and the mystery to solve.
You continue to follow Celia along with her friends Tilly, Donovan, and Luc. If I bookmarked all of the choices on my Kindle Fire correctly, I was given a choice on four separate occasions on where to take the story. And unlike in the first book, I liked all of the choices I was given. The book starts off pretty much where the last one left off with Celia discovering even more letters in the "mailbox." She is not sure which one to start with, so she just continues on with her normal life until she decides what to do. Through her continued nightmares of the man with the green crown, a break-in, and a friend's disappearance, Celia finds a letter with a similar situation she wants to investigate. However, there are some differences: the girl in the letter dies, but Celia's friend reappears after a few days (even if she is acting strange). Was Celia's intuition off about it being the correct letter?
I found this book to be even more exciting that the first one. At this point, I'm a little sad there isn't a third in the series for me to read. If there was, I would probably be reading it right now. I liked the mystery that they are trying to solve in this book. Although, I did have some things figured out way before Celia did, I still had fun watching her figure it out. She never frustrated me to the point of wanting to hit her over the head to "figure it out already." The story has a nice progression through to the ending. I didn't notice any out of place information, i.e. something that I would have learned from picking a different option than the one I actually picked. I felt the bad guys seemed to have had proper bad guy motivation. Although, I do wonder more about what the really big bad green crown guy's ultimate goal is and how all of the little bad guys fit into the picture. I think what will develop more through future books, which is a good thing. Celia doesn't understand it all yet, so neither should I.
I feel that I could easily reread this story again in the future. The option to pick different options, really increases the readability. I'm curious, way more so than with the first book, what would happen if I picked the other options while reading the book.
I highly recommend you check out this book. I found it to be a completely enjoyable read and think most young adults (including younger teens and the young adult in all of us), that love a fun paranormal mystery book, would most likely love this book too. And while I think you might have a little trouble with this book if you haven't read the first in the series, I think you could easily pick up this book and figure out who's who and the basics of what is going on. It would be a great book to bring along to the beach this summer as well.
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