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A review by choicepotatoes_20240331
Ghost Girl by Torey Hayden
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
3.5
when i was nine or ten, i found this book near the children's section of my local barnes & noble and was immediately captivated by the title and the little girl on the cover. my mom bought me the book and it quickly became my number one favorite thing; i read it dozens upon dozens of times.
years later, i came to realize the book wasn't written for children and that i was absolutely too young to have read it when i did. still, reading it again for the first time in literal decades, i'm struck by how intense, how heart wrenching, how disturbing jadie's story is.
there are, of course, some things that don't hold up (to be expected from events that took place in the eighties and were written about in the early nineties), but overall it remains an engaging book that i feel good about having revisited.
years later, i came to realize the book wasn't written for children and that i was absolutely too young to have read it when i did. still, reading it again for the first time in literal decades, i'm struck by how intense, how heart wrenching, how disturbing jadie's story is.
there are, of course, some things that don't hold up (to be expected from events that took place in the eighties and were written about in the early nineties), but overall it remains an engaging book that i feel good about having revisited.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Child death
Minor: Racial slurs and Suicide