I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review.
Well, I liked the cover, and that’s really all there is to say about this one. It was a confusing read with too many points of view and a ending that made no sense except to set up possibly another book starring Magda. And if Spotts had focused the book on just Delilah and Magda the book may have worked better.
Saint Delilah follows a young 20 old dancer Delilah. Delilah is being chased, and then militated and is left for dead in the woods. Delilah doesn’t know who killed her, but she does know who to turn to now that she’s dead, her boss and friend, Magda. Magda owns the bar that Delilah used to dance at, a motel, and other property in this small almost dead town. And Magda has a gift that lets her talk to the dead. She knows that because of the way that Delilah died, she’s going to have to fix things, or something worse could happen. The book follows Magda and Delilah as they try to figure out who killed her and why.
The character development of Delilah and Magda was just bad. That’s all I have to say. I wanted more information about Magda and what she can and can’t do, but the information that comes to readers comes in drips and honestly some of it didn’t make sense. And then we get some information about Magda that had me going wait what and it’s not explained. And we somehow also get her having visions about things, and I don’t know. She felt like a magical mcguffin after a while. And Delilah and her plot, such as it was, was a mess. I don’t want to reveal too much about it, but I will just write that, Grey’s Anatomy actually somehow did this better. And that’s not a compliment. There are other characters int his one such as Cross (who seriously what was even his deal?) and others and I just stopped keeping things straight. There was too much happening and somehow not enough. And we keep getting told how important it is for Magda to kill the person who did this to Delilah from stopping something terrible from happening, but based on what I could tell it was just something that seemed to have no time constraint around it really. I wanted to know more about the Keepers, the town, etc. the lack of world building for the main plot was just not there.
The flow was really terrible. I don’t even know what else to say. Having not just Delilah and Magda (which I will argue again, should have been the only POVs) we had Cross, Jessie, Henry, and two other men whose names I am drawing a blank about as I write this review. There were too many red herrings and not enough focus on the world building in this one to even figure out what was going on for the majority of the book.
The ending was just confusing. I mean I understand what happened and why but I just went well okay that was a book.
- Season – spice; for everything there is a season; weather; debutant; hunting; tax; solstice; season of life; seasonal depression. Due to this book talking about death and the afterlife, thought season was a perfect square for it.
