Chapter by Chapter

Let me just start this review off by saying that I absolutely loved this novel. It was scary, fast paced, romantic, and packed with the paranormal. Inbetween is beautifully crafted, fun and everything that a paranormal novel should be. Now that I have that out of my system, I’ll start this off by saying how excited I was to start reading this novel—it’s one that I’ve wanted to read for a long time and when I began it, I never wanted to stop.Inbetween begins by introducing us to main characters Finn and Emma, both of whom have a past with each other, with only one of them being aware of that fact. It started off in a very awesome-sauce way, where we see Finn watch as Emma’s Dad’s soul is reaped and watch him break all the rules to keep Emma from dying. From the start we are introduced to Maeve, a poltergeist who is psychotic and was supposed to have Emma’s life. The story does start out in a way that has readers a bit confused, but it’s nothing that could drive you crazy because it’s pretty obvious that you’ll learn more about the mysterious past between the two main characters later on in the novel.Basically, Inbetween is the story about Grim Reaper, Finn, who finds himself falling for the reincarnation of his once dead girlfriend and your regular human, Emma, who is living a life that shouldn’t be hers. The two struggle with the fact that Finn is breaking every rule that the Keeper of the Reapers, Balthazar, has created to keep the dead from mixing with the living. Throughout the story, a psychotic ghost who should be living Emma’s life attempts to kill her and adds in horrific scenes of terror and action that had my heart pounding in my chest.The relationship between Finn and Emma was one that I found cute and risky because of the fact that rules were constantly being broken and Finn fights to not go corporeal and touch Emma—which would result in him going to Hell as punishment. Emma as a character, is one that I think many readers could relate to emotionally, over the fact that Emma’s Dad died and her mother is moving on by getting a potential boyfriend.There were multiple scenes that had me going “awww!” and had me screaming at the book for the main characters to defend themselves/defeat Maeve whenever she would strike. There is a major twist in the story that I have to admit I did not see coming and only gives readers more reason to hope that Finn can protect Emma from Maeve even more than he already has.All in all a very fun and romantic read. Fans of Alyson Noel’s the Immortals series and YA paranormal romances will definitely find themselves falling hard for Inbetween. And lucky for all of us, it’s a series. Can I get a woot, woot?