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A review by eviecheesepuff
Ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley
emotional
funny
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
This book is such a ✨wild card✨
The aesthetic! I remember being 15 years old and wanting this book so bad! 😭 But I couldn’t afford it and my library did not have a copy, so when I saw it on the thrift store last month…I shrieked!
Charlotte, our MC, will make this HER year. She talks to her crush, plans to defy the mean girls and revamps her look. All of that hard work is for nothing however, when she chokes on a gummy bear (yes 🤦♀️) and dies on her first day back to high school. Now she wakes up as a ghost, surrounded by other dead teenagers and stuck in high school even after death.
Honestly the secondary characters (a deranged cast of young ghosts… from the one who drowned in her own vomit on a crazy wild night to the one who got murdered on prom night) made this book so interesting! I also loved Scarlet's character. The only teen who can see Charlotte 😊
Look, the reason why I'm giving this book 3 stars instead of 4 is because I legitimately though that Charlotte and Scarlet were endgame. They were so cute together but of course this book was written in the 2000's and as fun as that was when it came to references and slang, the LGBTQ+ representation is very lacking. Alexa! play I Wish You Were Gay by Billie Eilish ✌️
LESSONS LEARNED:
- This book was a lot darker than I expected. It provides very good commentary on popularity and prioritizing all the wrong things as a teen.
-Be careful when you eat candy 👀 chew it well.
notes
- if you’re in your mid/late twenties this book is just worth reading to revisit the 2000's culture ❤️ omg.
- not the author quoting Evanescence!🤘no wonder my teen goth self wanted this book so bad. Amy Lee is and will always be an absolute icon.
- this book is so goddamn pretty! The cover, the little doodles on the corners, the silver edges, the bicolored chapter pages 🙌 I'm in love!
The aesthetic! I remember being 15 years old and wanting this book so bad! 😭 But I couldn’t afford it and my library did not have a copy, so when I saw it on the thrift store last month…I shrieked!
Charlotte, our MC, will make this HER year. She talks to her crush, plans to defy the mean girls and revamps her look. All of that hard work is for nothing however, when she chokes on a gummy bear (yes 🤦♀️) and dies on her first day back to high school. Now she wakes up as a ghost, surrounded by other dead teenagers and stuck in high school even after death.
Honestly the secondary characters (a deranged cast of young ghosts… from the one who drowned in her own vomit on a crazy wild night to the one who got murdered on prom night) made this book so interesting! I also loved Scarlet's character. The only teen who can see Charlotte 😊
Look, the reason why I'm giving this book 3 stars instead of 4 is because I legitimately though that Charlotte and Scarlet were endgame. They were so cute together but of course this book was written in the 2000's and as fun as that was when it came to references and slang, the LGBTQ+ representation is very lacking. Alexa! play I Wish You Were Gay by Billie Eilish ✌️
LESSONS LEARNED:
- This book was a lot darker than I expected. It provides very good commentary on popularity and prioritizing all the wrong things as a teen.
-Be careful when you eat candy 👀 chew it well.
notes
- if you’re in your mid/late twenties this book is just worth reading to revisit the 2000's culture ❤️ omg.
- not the author quoting Evanescence!🤘no wonder my teen goth self wanted this book so bad. Amy Lee is and will always be an absolute icon.
- this book is so goddamn pretty! The cover, the little doodles on the corners, the silver edges, the bicolored chapter pages 🙌 I'm in love!