Saving each other, a sweet ghost story..., This story, told in alternating voices, is about Brooklyn and Nico -- both are being "haunted" and experience visions and visits. Nico by Brooklyn's boyfriend and his brother Lucca and she by Lucca's friend Gabe. The two boys are dead -- Lucca in a car wreck and Gabe a suicide. Both are trying to pass along an important message to Brooklyn and Nico -- to choose life instead of wallowing in solitude and despair.
Although a bit contrived and predictable, the journey that each takes is a bittersweet effort to reconnect with friends and family. Brooklyn and Nico learn that the path to happiness involves making choices to stay involved and active in the world without staying constantly in the past. It's about getting over a terrific and horrible loss, and somehow finding peace and the desire to go on despite the pain and grief.
Recommended for high school libraries.
Ms C.
2 comments:
This is the kind of story that teens should read! I say this because it actually sounds like a well thought out novel and it teaches people how to move on, it is not a story about some girl on a whim deciding to kill herself because a guy pinched her butt. Sometimes YA fiction is too dolled up and it sounds SO whiney and juvenile that I would rather gag myself than read the novel.
The message sounds good, but what stands out just hearing about it is that it's written in verse. It's something not every story can pull off.
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