Scorch, by Gina Damico, Fiction

This is the second book in the Gina Damico series after the first book named "Croak", which is the name of the town that this crazy but exciting adventure started in one fateful summer. Lex, the main character that we follow, looks more into the mysteries of Croak and the "Grimsphere", the Grimsphere is a secret kind of web of towns that reside hidden from the rest of the world other than fellow people that reside in the Grimsphere one way or another. Hint: Think of the citizens much like what some people call "The Grim Reaper", such as they are nicknamed "Grims". But chaos is looming over head with traitors and dark secrets that weren't meant to be found, or were they?

The power of "damning" is what started this chaos. It is a power the Lex, a grim herself she found out recently, can or cannot control through her willpower, but something even darker lies behind that destructive power. Where ever Lex goes trouble follows as a grim turned rogue steals her power, more like copies it, and uses it to damn innocents and criminals alike to get what she wants. Zara, the rogue that started "Masterminding" these cruel plans was after "The Wrong Book", that is the actual title. The Wrong Book is connected to the most evil Grim in the Grimsphere, a legend that is twisted in may ways, named "Grotton". As their adventure continues allies with the other juniors as the senior part of the grimsphere turns on them and Juniors all across the Grimpshere. They hide in town that seems more like a paradise mirage in a dry land of a heated desert, DeMyse, which has oddly not been touched by the damning Zara.

Question #4
The author most likely went with a fictional mythological theme the way I see it. Grim Reapers, souls, the afterlife, it all sounds like the theme of a twisted fairytale mixed with the ideas of the own author. This is a great book that shows developed and thought through way of systems in the Grimsphere and how things work, well, except the Either. I really don't understand what the Either really is or how it got there in the first place before being discovered.

Question #7
This book hasn't really changed me, more like given me more ideas or new concepts of death and myth. Maybe a few systems I though of on my own and inventions that Lex's uncle, that she claimed was "Crazy" in the beginning of the series many a times, made that could actually be useful in real life. I guess I'm just the different old me, after all, no one stays the same for long, let it be a day or even a few seconds and everything you know or believe can change in the blink of an eye. I guess the book also backed up that concept, one of many that I've seen, yet that doesn't really change anything right now, but maybe later for any one of us...