If you don't like foul language, or if you don't like present tense narration, this may not be the book for you. Through a simple touch of skin to skin, Miriam can see how and when someone will die. After failing to stop a young boy's death (and believing her attempt to stop it leads to his death), she pretty much just accepts what she sees as immutable fate. Until she meets Louis, and hears him utter her name as his last word before his death.

I enjoyed the premise of the story a lot, but I was somewhat disappointed in its rule in the story. Miriam's ability is more of a catalyst for the other stories, whereas I really wanted a little more about the ability itself. I guess it's like the stories would have happened if her ability to see someone's death were substituted for her being a stage magician, or an extremely skilled artist.