The Ghost of Us
A swoony sapphic YA romance
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
Cara is an aspiring ghost hunter, determined to show she’s more than a high school outcast by finding proof of the supernatural. Then she stumbles upon the spirit of Aiden, a popular boy who died a year ago. Yet Aiden has his own plan to help his reclusive sister Meredith recover from his death. And he’s decided Cara’s the girl for the job.
Cara agrees to ask Meredith out in exchange for Aiden helping her prove there’s life beyond death. No dates, no ghost. Wooing the standoffish Meredith isn’t going to be easy, however. With Aiden’s coaching, Cara slowly wins Meredith over – and finds herself really falling for her in the process. But as Meredith gets happier and Aiden’s mission nears completion, his ghost begins to fade. Can Cara carry on dating and deceiving Meredith – or will she have to give up the ghost?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Due to past trauma surrounding peer reactions to her queer identity, Cara Weaver, 18, can't wait to escape Stossel, Wash. After receiving rejections from all the colleges she applied to, however, she's anticipating another year at home, and believes her only ticket out of Stossel is finding success with her ghost-hunting YouTube channel, Caranormal Activity. So, when she accidentally stumbles upon the spirit of deceased former classmate Aiden Reyes, she endeavors to use his presence to prove that ghosts are real. But Aiden will only help Cara if she takes his sister Meredith to prom, an act that he hopes will draw Meredith out of her grief-induced depression. What begins as an obligation blossoms into real romance, leaving Cara in an impossible situation—the happier she makes Meredith, the more at peace Aiden feels, causing his spirit to retreat toward the afterlife and taking Cara's dreams of escape with him. A key traumatic incident and examinations of grief are handled cursorily, and snarky, pop-culture-packed prose by Sutter (Darkhearts) at times feels preoccupied with the girls' bodies, but character personalities are nevertheless intricately and distinctly rendered. The protagonists read as white. Ages 13–up.
