The Grimoire of Grave Fates

Let's start with the positives of this book, the representation is wonderful, mental health, disabilities, LGBTQIA there's a little something for everyone.

The premise and structure are amazing, a chapter for each character seeing how they weave together, how the story unfolds, and all the details of the murder it's a wonderful idea.

The world-building is wonderful, a magic school that allows everyone in, that believes magic is there for everyone, it made my heart happy, and speaking of a happy heart that covers is just breathtaking.

Now for the things that just didn't work, to me this just isn't YA, it almost reads as a tween book, I realize there are some dark and heavy subjects but it just doesn't read as YA.

While the representation is phenomenal it got to a point where keeping all of the characters straight gets to be difficult, and takes away a lot of the magic that the authors tried to put into this one.

Overall it's not a bad book, it's actually a good book, there were just a couple of things that didn't quite work for me.

Thank you to Random House Children's and NetGalley for providing an advance copy of this E-Book, I have voluntarily read and reviewed it, and all thoughts and opinions are my own.