The Body Finder (second blog)

               I didn't agree with some of the things the author has done in this story. In the story, the main character, Violet, can sense dead bodies and she can sense an imprint of death on people who have murdered. She found the killer who had been murdering girls in the area she lived in using that ability. She told her uncle, who is a cop, and then the man was arrested just because Violet said he was the killer. This is completely unrealistic though, because if he was going to arrest someone, he would need probable cause. His reasoning couldn't just be that his niece said it was him when she hasn't proven her ability is reliable to the other police and she has no solid evidence. There was another choice the author made that I didn't like. After the killer was arrested and proven guilty, there was a plot twist where the killer had an accomplice. While there isn't anything wrong with a plot twist like this, it didn't make any sense for it to have happened. There wasn't any "a-ha" moment where details from the past in the story all add up to make the plot twist come together and make sense. It felt like a random out-of-place piece of information that the author decided to slap into the book to carry the story along.

The Body Finder

   In The Body Finder, there are parallel chapters. The majority of the chapters are from the point of view of Violet, the main character. A few of the chapters are from the point of view of the murderer. There was a chapter that ended with Violet walking alone at night, and then in the next chapter, the murderer saw a girl walking alone at night. The murderer drove his car up by the girl and saw that the girl was crying, and he offered to give her a ride home. She got in the car at the end of that chapter. The next chapter was from Violet's point of view. She was crying and a guy drove up next to her. This created a very suspenseful scene, because that led me to believe that it was the murderer about to kidnap Violet. It turned out to be Violet's friend Jay, and he gave her a ride home. This made me wonder if there was going to be a plot twist where you find out that Jay is actually the murderer, although that scene was most likely just for suspense. It's highly unlikely that Jay would be the murderer, but I am excited to see how the rest of the story turns out.