What I love about mystery novels is that it’s really easy to raise the stakes. I pressed on, expecting that the author was biding her time, waiting to sneak up on me and dump all of the excitement that comes with reading a mystery novel down my back like it was a bucket of glow in the dark paint.Īll I got for my waiting, really, was a mystery that solved itself without much exploration by the main character, and a final scene that had so much potential to be climactic, but for me, fell flat. However, when I actually started reading Paper Valentine, that feverish interest I had wanted to feel never really arrived. Seriously though, I had been in the mood to read something eerie, and definitely tense and thrilling. Paper Valentine is a hauntingly poetic tale of love and death by the New York Times bestselling author of The Replacement and The Space Between.Ī book that contains both eerie ghosts and a serial killer who places little toy trinkets and paper hearts around his victims? Sign me up. She realizes that only by confronting the Valentine Killer will she be able move on with her life-and it’s up to her to put together the pieces before he strikes again. With the entire city in a panic, Hannah soon finds herself drawn into a world of ghost girls and horrifying secrets.

And she must stop thinking about Finny Boone, the big, enigmatic delinquent whose main hobbies seem to include petty larceny and surprising acts of kindness. But how can things be normal when Lillian’s ghost is haunting her bedroom, pushing her to investigate the mysterious string of murders? Hannah’s just trying to understand why her friend self-destructed, and where she fits now that Lillian isn’t there to save her a place among the social elite. Her best friend Lillian died six months ago, and Hannah just wants her life to go back to normal. The asphalt is melting, the birds are dying, petty crime is on the rise, and someone in Hannah Wagnor’s peaceful suburban community is killing girls.įor Hannah, the summer is a complicated one. The city of Ludlow is gripped by the hottest July on record. Genres: Horror, Mystery, Paranormal Fantasy, Young Adult Published by Razorbill Books on January 8th 2013 Review: Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoffĥ December, 2012 Adrienne Fray Featured, Reviews 16 comments Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff