Over My Dead Body

Practical info

Author: Sweeney Boo
Series: Over My Dead Body PART 1
Genres: Fiction, fantasy/mystery
Sub-genres: Dark Academia/high-fantasy/young adult
Publication year: 2022
Edition: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-06-305631-2
Blurb: Fans of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will love diving into the mysterious and witchy world of award-nominated creator Sweeney Boo. Enchanting full-color illustrations will be sure to charm readers as they explore the halls of Younwity's Institute of Magic and the forbidden forest that lies beyond.
In the days leading up to Samhain, the veil between the world of the dead and the living is at its thinnest.
One day, everything was exactly as it was supposed to be. And the next, the closest thing Abby ever had to a sister, Noreen, was just… gone.
Distracted by the annual preparations for the Samhain festival, Abby’s classmates are quick to put Noreen’s disappearance aside. The Coven will find her, Abby’s friends say. They have it under control.
But Abby can’t let it go. Soon a search for answers leads her down a rabbit hole that uncovers more secrets than Abby can handle. As mounting evidence steers her toward the off-limits woods that surround the academy, she begins to see that Noreen’s disappearance mysteriously has a lot in common with another girl who went missing all those years ago…

Personal info

Why I picked it up: I don't remember how I found it, I asked for it for Christmas. I remember it seemed to be the first time my parents realised comics could also be pretty books, not just flimsy magazine-like things.
Status: Finished
Progress: 233/233 pages
Started: 25-12-2022
Finished: 02-01-2023
Rating: 4/5 stars
Reread count: 0
Overall opinion: Very pretty, engaging world and mystery. Ending felt really rushed. It had 200 pages of buildup and everything had to be concluded in 50 pages. Which is still 50 pages, but in a comic, you read through them so quickly, it felt like there was a new revelation every other page or so. Maybe there were a bit too many plot points that needed to be resolved.