Nicole's Reviews > When I'm Dead

Ugh, I really want to give this 3 stars, but I just can’t…

There was too much unchallenged bias that left me feeling gross. Particularly regarding weight, attractiveness, and class. If you’re overweight, you must be depressed. If you’re unconventional in appearance, you must be a weird loner with no friends. We’re supposed to be touched when the soccer star talks to the chubby girl. It mentions about 10 times that the government housing is an eye sore for the rest of the town. There’s a moment where our MC realizes that “homeless people are people too”. There’s a character, that has nothing to do with the plot, but for which the author takes time to explain his nickname is “Gordo” which means fat in Portuguese. There’s a scene where a dad feels bad for the mom restricting the daughters diet, so instead of telling the mom to stop being awful, he… sneaks the daughter ice cream?

On top of that, it’s completely implausible that these parents would be allowed to work their own daughter’s missing persons case. Especially when the daughter is a possible suspect in two murders. Conflict of interest? Also, I just do not buy Rowan as a doctor. She is not smart. And Axel and Rowan are solidly upper middle class, a doctor and a detective. Yet, they constantly whine about being stuck in this horrible town just waiting for more tragedy. You’re both highly employable, get a new job and move. Good Lord…