I am Made of Death by Kelly Andrew

e-Audio, 11:27:56
Narrated by: Annalee Scott, Kirby Heyborne, Andrew Eiden
Release Date: March 4, 2025
Published by: Scholastic Inc
Read from: March 14-16, 2025
Stand-alone
Source:  Library’s Libby
Content Warning: Body Horror, Death, Murder, Violence, Blood, Emotional Abuse, Child Abuse. Confinement, Adult/Minor Relationship
For Readers Interested In: Audio, Disability (Selective Mutism/ ASL), Full Cast Audio, Horror, Thrillers, YA

    From bestselling author Kelly Andrew comes the most electrifying dark romance of the decade…
     Following the death of his father, Thomas Walsh had to grow up quickly, taking on odd-jobs to keep food on the table and help pay his gravely ill mother’s medical bills. When he’s offered a highly paid position as an interpreter for an heiress who exclusively signs, Thomas — the hearing child of a Deaf adult — jumps at the opportunity.
     But the job is not without its challenges. Thomas is expected to accompany Vivienne wherever she goes, but from the start, she seems determined to shake him. To make matters worse, her parents keep her on an extremely short leash. She is not to go anywhere without express permission. She is not to deviate from her routine.
     She is, most importantly, not to be out after dark.
     A selective-mute, Vivienne Farrow hasn’t said a word in years — not since going missing in Red Rock Canyon when she was four years old. No one knows quite what happened to her out in the dark. They only know that the sound of her voice is now as deadly as a poison. Anyone who hears her speak suffers a horrible death.
     Ever since that fatal family vacation, Vivienne has been desperately searching for a way to regain control of both her voice and her body. Because the face staring out of the mirror isn’t hers. It’s something with teeth.
      Thankfully, Vivienne has a plan. She’s finally found someone who claims to be able to perform a surgical exorcism. She just needs to find a way to get rid of Thomas first. But Thomas can’t afford to walk away, nor is he willing to abandon the mysterious girl he’s quickly falling for, no matter what dark powers threaten to swallow them both whole.

*MY THOUGHTS*

This wasn’t a weird one. And that’s the best way I could say it. And I’m going to be 100% honest when I saw, bruh why should I read the book if you’re going to give me the whole story in the synopsis?

Ok so I think one of the biggest things I didn’t vibe with on this one was the writing style. I never got sucked into it. The writing to me felt a little choppy, even if the actual plot was good. It just wasn’t something I cared enough about. And I don’t think it was the narrators. I think it just didn’t have a great pace to it.

The plot of this was amazing! The demon thing? OMG And I really disliked literally everyone in this book lol From the MC to the MMC to the “friends” to the “parents” It was all so annoying. I wish that the plot had been given a much better group of characters. I know that the point was to make them unreliable, but this was more than that. They were also annoying lol

Besides that, I can say I really don’t know what else happened in this book. I was interested in the medical procedure, but once things started happening and they were all over the place, and it just didn’t work anymore. And like, I don’t actually remember all the things that happened in this, but with that being said, I really just went to read the synopsis and it was all in there. I think that should exist only to get people interested in the title, not make it so people don’t have to read it at all.

Idk. I saw people raving about this one, but it just wasn’t for me I guess. Or maybe I was just in a slump at this time. Whatever the case may be, I didn’t care for it. And I didn’t actually feel like it was actually scary tho. This was a lot, but if you think you might like it, you should try it!

Overall, I give this