506 reviews for:

Ghost Wood Song

Erica Waters

3.74 AVERAGE

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional mysterious sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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skullmutant's review

3.0
emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I'd have loved to give this book another star. When it hits the notes of mysterious southern ghost tale it's great, and the main characters conflicting emotions and angs  about her relationships and bisexuality is very good.

But that same angst is applied to "engaging with the main plot", it doesn't feel as fresh. She constantly gets talked out of continuing with the plot of the book, but I never feel the reasons were good enough, and whilst being bad at communicating was good for the teen drama scenes, it just makea other scenes frustrating. It's good, but the frustrations were too many
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ktrecs's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 30%

I was expecting a lot more playing the fiddle on a moss-covered rock, mc reads too young, dissonant tones.
dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

3.5 stars

tw: past attempted sexual assault (not mc); car accident;

This is so strange bc I don’t know why I like this so much ... maybe bc I think it has a great no-nonsense murder mystery with a tinge of paranormal that doesn’t require some great complicated lore and an itty bitty crush triangle with a bi mc in the middle .. maybe that’s it