Review: The Grave Digger

The Grave Digger by Rebecca Bischoff

Kindle Edition, 192 pages
Expected publication: October 29th, 2019 by Amberjack Publishing
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Reading The Grave Digger contributed to Fraterfest 2019 Readathon and SpooktasticReads 2019!

What I liked about Grave Digger is that it was written from a young boy's perspective living in 1875.
Honestly, the story dragged on more than I cared for but it was a pleasure to go back in time and relive the way things used to be before modernization and the automobile.

Grave Digger got confusing halfway through because it was hard to keep up with all the characters.

The book read like a Nancy Drew mystery or Murder She wrote. Cap was determined to find answers to what was going on in his town but keeping everything a secret was a mistake. There was nobody he could talk too, unfortunately. He should have gone to the police sooner IMO.

A young boy and his father worked for a man called Lum aka Columbus Jones digging up graves but to Cap's dismay, the dead body comes back to life. For all Cap knew they needed the money and the body was someone who had a wife! It must have been awkward to try and explain how someone believed to be dead and buried came back to life after Cap touched it. Who would believe it? You had to have been there.

I was disappointed along with Cap when his power to resurrect the dead was not a possibility but simply science. Doctors quickly defeated that notion. Ho-hum.

Goodreads Summary: 

In 1875 Ohio, twelve-year-old Cap Cooper is an aspiring inventor—and a reluctant graverobber—enlisted by his father to help pay for his mother’s medical expenses. When one of the dead returns to life at his touch, Cap unearths a world of dark secrets that someone at the local medical school wants to keep buried. On the brink of discovery, he’ll have to use every ounce of cunning he has to protect those he loves most and save his own skin. The Grave Digger is an eerie mystery set in the aftermath of the Civil War, filled with action, friendship, and a hint of the paranormal, perfect for those who enjoy reading late into the night and long after the lights go out.