A review by vagaybond
Grave Expectations by Alice Bell

adventurous funny mysterious

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

!!! gay rights. non biney :) rep. ghosts who are friends. silly. love this. (protag is presumably a straight woman disclaimer but everybody else is a lil 💅 el gee bee tee)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Blood, Vomit, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content, Grief

Sophie, the protagonist's best friend and spirit guide, died as a teenager. Other ghosts are abundantly present in the book in various bodily states. There is a ghost child. The protagonist deals with a lot of loneliness and sense of tragedy which seems to overarch most things, but the narrative voice is like a friend retelling to you and it's silly.