Review: Poetically different
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 31, 2013
Skeleton Lake's premise is refreshingly different--a community of undead, living around the lake that both births and heals them. Out of this particular water, they look no different than us. They walk in the daylight, the adults work in town, and the kids go to the local school. But in the lake, their false flesh disappears and their true nature glows in the colors of their bones. When Marlow runs away from humiliation, she runs into this tight-knit group and becomes one of them... but in her suicide, she becomes a new Skeleton with Marlow's memories and experiences, and the soul of a Skeleton called Cassie (who also suicided). Now Marlow has to clean up the mess Cassie left behind, while battling the feelings Cassie has for two brothers.Then a new peril, the Hollows, come to town. They want Skeleton women as breeding stock, and everything goes up in the air!The love triangle was skillfully portrayed, with Marlow having to make the difficult choice between love and lust, and the entire story has a near-poetic feel to it. The words "vampire" or "zombie" don't appear once in this story, as I recall--hooray for something different!