*I received an eARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*

I read Empire of Wild a few years ago and was pleasantly surprised by how much I loved it and I think I’ve been chasing that high with Dimaline’s books ever since. Funeral Somgs for Dying Girls is hard to place because genre wise it’s a bit fantasy, a bit contemporary and there’s a con element to it and a protagonist coming of age, but then tonally its about grief with some spooky scenes and some lighter moments. I had a hard time getting into this book and then I finished it and it immediately left my brain other than lingering confusion over what exactly this book was meant to be. I do like the way Dimaline crafts sentences but I think I need to be a bit pickier about which of her works I pick up in the future.