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coffee_and_spicy_reads 's review for:
Almost You
by Skylar M. Cates
Honestly I loved the concept of a ghost world and how they could change it to fit their mood. Whatever they pictured, they got. So that was cool. I enjoyed the toy scenes and how they figured out how to be with each other in the human world and the ghost one too. That was cute. It was honestly the rest of the story just made me mad.
The author mentioned this story was created to give Ghost a story and with it being a romance, I expected a HEA. There isn’t one. It’s not even a HFN. You start to see pieces of him remembering his death and his friends who are mourning him AT THE VERY END OF THE BOOK, while the whole time I was hoping he was in a coma or something. But nope. He’s actually dead. And Christopher is a medium and that’s the only reason they can interact. After he remembers though? It’s over. Done. It ended so suddenly that I was just confused as heck.
It’s mentioned it’s a standalone but if you want to figure out what friends he’s actually talking about, you’d have to read the entire series. I went back and scrolled through reviews and I’m pretty sure this is Brandon who died in a motorcycle accident. So the bump on the head makes sense. But literally spilling out that he can see his friends and family and not explaining WHY is bothersome. It felt like maybe he was actually alive and that’s why he can see them? Like they were maybe visiting him in the hospital? But nope. Still dead. This whole thing felt there were loose ends everywhere.
For instance, Christopher and Ghost both feel this connection to each other, like they were something to each other in some lifetime but that’s never really fleshed out so it’s more confusing than anything. What was the point of delving into it if it’s just kind of ignored? It was mentioned through this whole book, this sudden INTENSE connection so I’m just like, WHY. Why bring it up and then just never come back to it again? Tell me if they were lovers in another life! CONFIRM it. Don’t just vaguely bring it up and NOT give us that confirmation. Otherwise, what is the point?!
The random bits with the client and so much about Christopher’s ex wife was annoying. This story was already SO short that we didn’t need so much backstory as I’d rather try to understand how they actually fell in love with each other than understand that Christopher is guarded for 2.5 seconds before he’s just… not. Like was this to show us that his connection to Ghost was more than anything to the ex? Was it to show us that he was bi? Demi? Idfk!
Also, what irritated me the most and made me want to yeet my phone, was that only Christopher says I love you while Ghost over here doesn’t say it back, only mentally. The end is spent with them talking about how they’ll live their lives together and grow old… and MAYBE FIND EACH OTHER WHEN CHRISTOPHER DIES.
MAYBE.
MAYBE. Find each other. In the ghost world. MAYBE. But it’s not a guarantee.
Wha-?!
No. Just…. No.
The author mentioned this story was created to give Ghost a story and with it being a romance, I expected a HEA. There isn’t one. It’s not even a HFN. You start to see pieces of him remembering his death and his friends who are mourning him AT THE VERY END OF THE BOOK, while the whole time I was hoping he was in a coma or something. But nope. He’s actually dead. And Christopher is a medium and that’s the only reason they can interact. After he remembers though? It’s over. Done. It ended so suddenly that I was just confused as heck.
It’s mentioned it’s a standalone but if you want to figure out what friends he’s actually talking about, you’d have to read the entire series. I went back and scrolled through reviews and I’m pretty sure this is Brandon who died in a motorcycle accident. So the bump on the head makes sense. But literally spilling out that he can see his friends and family and not explaining WHY is bothersome. It felt like maybe he was actually alive and that’s why he can see them? Like they were maybe visiting him in the hospital? But nope. Still dead. This whole thing felt there were loose ends everywhere.
For instance, Christopher and Ghost both feel this connection to each other, like they were something to each other in some lifetime but that’s never really fleshed out so it’s more confusing than anything. What was the point of delving into it if it’s just kind of ignored? It was mentioned through this whole book, this sudden INTENSE connection so I’m just like, WHY. Why bring it up and then just never come back to it again? Tell me if they were lovers in another life! CONFIRM it. Don’t just vaguely bring it up and NOT give us that confirmation. Otherwise, what is the point?!
The random bits with the client and so much about Christopher’s ex wife was annoying. This story was already SO short that we didn’t need so much backstory as I’d rather try to understand how they actually fell in love with each other than understand that Christopher is guarded for 2.5 seconds before he’s just… not. Like was this to show us that his connection to Ghost was more than anything to the ex? Was it to show us that he was bi? Demi? Idfk!
Also, what irritated me the most and made me want to yeet my phone, was that only Christopher says I love you while Ghost over here doesn’t say it back, only mentally. The end is spent with them talking about how they’ll live their lives together and grow old… and MAYBE FIND EACH OTHER WHEN CHRISTOPHER DIES.
MAYBE.
MAYBE. Find each other. In the ghost world. MAYBE. But it’s not a guarantee.
Wha-?!
No. Just…. No.