Sent back to Charlotte's old high school, the same one where she was all but invisible and met her death by choking on a gummi bear.
After dying, meeting up in Dead Ed, and helping out by answering the calls, they have one more task. Synopsis: One (maybe?) last time in this third ghostgirl book, Charlotte and her friends are all back-both the living and the dead. The publishers seem to have taken mercy on us and refused to print a fourth. But for God's sake, forego the other two!Įven this third volume concludes with the oh so creative "The end?" suggesting that Hurley intended a fourth book. There is some story, some humor, some character development, and it is definitely creative. The first Ghostgirl book is maybe worth reading if it seems like your kind of thing. Generally, finishing what you start is considered a good thing, but I was a fool to go on through three books of this nonsense. She jibed, she orated, she snipped, she snapped, she chirped, she harangued, etc. or worse, she foregoes "said" altogether in favor of oddball words that halt the reader's flow. The book is largely dialogue, but she isn't satisfied with the all purpose, useful word, "said." She invariably either follows "said" with an adverb: she said haughtily, she said snidely, she said quizzically. On top of this, Hurley's writing style is irritating. Charlotte, the original Ghostgirl, seems to be a secondary character in this volume. I didn't care one iota what happened to anyone, because there were no characters worth caring about. There is no humor in this volume at all, unless you find mean girls sniping at each other nonstop for 300 pages the pinnacle of humor. What little character development they had in the earlier books was tossed out the window for this one, in favor of yet another bitch in the cast.
Even Charlotte and Scarlett, who were the redeeming features of the first book, and not too bad in the second, are both just like all the rest of them. Just throw-away characters taking up space so the girls will have someone to swoon over.Īll the other characters - every single one of them, living and dead, is a selfish, narcissistic, popularity and fashion obsessed, mean-spirited girl. There are only two male characters (one living, Damon, and one dead, Eric) and they are both void of personality. This third (Oh, Lord, why did I read it?) is pretty close to the worst book I've ever read all the way to the end. It's wasn't very well written, but it was fun enough. The first book in this series had a clever concept, and some funny episodes.
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