by Laura Whitcomb
This is a wonderful, wonderful story. It is a touch of sweetness.Calder is a Fetch, which is an escort that comes to a person at the time of their death. The Fetch waits while the soul decides to stay or go, and doesn't influence the soul's decision. If the soul chooses to go, the Fetch takes the...
I thought the premise behind this book was original and very intriguing, but the additional description of "a supernatural romance" was a little far-fetched, until you reach the last third of the book, perhaps. Even then, I think it's a stretch to call this story a romance. Once I realized I was rea...
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This book starts promising, but falls off a cliff around page 50. The first 50 pages are mostly made up of exposition, explaining exactly what a Fetch is (a spirit that escorts the newly dead to the afterlife) and how they work. The rules are really, genuinely interesting, and I love the Fetch conce...
OMG where has this book been hiding. Paranormal love story YA set in Imperial Russia. Yes, Please.
My expectations of "The Fetch" were very, very low - practically non-existent in fact... Which is probably why I couldn't help but be positively surprised. I was fascinated by the story and had a really hard time putting it down, although now that I'm looking back at it, I'm hard pressed to say why....
Because I didn't have enough books going at once, I started this one, too. I'm intrigued by the idea of the Fetch and by the Romanovs, but a little offput by the heavy spirituality.***So, there is definitely a god, and only one, but he's unseen, uninvolved, and non-denominational. Why bother?Parts s...
This story was made much more interesting by populating the story with notorious historical character of Rasputin and the famously murdered Russian royal family. The front cover calls this novel a "supernatural romance", but the story contained more obsession than romance.The main character, Calder,...