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Exit Ghost by Jennifer R. Donohue

ceridwenanne's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

4.75

Gender-flipped contemporary Hamlet that leans hard into the witchery underneath the play. Juliet Duncan was almost killed by a ricochet when her dad was assassinated. 6 months later she gets out of the coma, and promptly performs a ritual to call her dad's ghost, in an altogether badass version of the battlement scene. While not narrated by Jules, the story is a close third person, and the effects of her traumatic brain injury make events feel strange and wiggling sometimes, in addition to all the witchery. Very similar vibes to Scapegracers -- the magic, the queerness, the scrabbling youth -- but an older iteration: maybe just out of college (or that age), and competent enough to be fucking dangerous. Really good.