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A review by allysw
Notes from Ghost Town by Kate Ellison
3.0
Olivia went entirely colorblind the day her best friend Stern kissed her. A week later, he's dead. And all signs point to Liv's schizophrenic mother as the murderer. When Olivia arrives back in Florida after flunking out of her fancy art school up north, her mother's sentencing is only a few days away. But then Olivia starts to ask questions. Why? Because Stern tells her to. Yep. Oh, he's still dead. But that doesn't keep him from being pretty vocal about the fact that he's almost sure that Olivia's mom didn't kill him. And no one else can help her.
So begins Olivia's investigation. Talking maybe-or-maybe-not-ghost and all, this one is a pretty compelling mystery. Sure, there are some flaws (is she crazy? what the heck is wrong with her eyes?). But Olivia is a tortured young woman who is dealing with a lot of change: the boy she loved is gone, her mom is incarcerated, she can't see color, her dad is getting married to someone new, her beautiful childhood home is empty--and she handles it...well, not all that well. Because she's a teenager. But she throws herself into the investigation, enlisting the help of a slightly unlikely source, and finds out a few things that she wasn't expecting.
So begins Olivia's investigation. Talking maybe-or-maybe-not-ghost and all, this one is a pretty compelling mystery. Sure, there are some flaws (is she crazy? what the heck is wrong with her eyes?). But Olivia is a tortured young woman who is dealing with a lot of change: the boy she loved is gone, her mom is incarcerated, she can't see color, her dad is getting married to someone new, her beautiful childhood home is empty--and she handles it...well, not all that well. Because she's a teenager. But she throws herself into the investigation, enlisting the help of a slightly unlikely source, and finds out a few things that she wasn't expecting.