It’s got some very heavy, tough topics & themes, but the ending for me was just *chef’s kiss* perfect. Printz award-winning and nationally bestselling author of Watch Over Me, We Are Okay, Hold Still, and Everything Leads to. Before the tragic event that plunged her into the foster care system, Mila had seen a ghost an old woman while she was living with her mother and her mothers unhinged boyfriend Blake.
This story tackles trauma and grief in heavy doses, along with accepting parts of yourself that are permanently altered when bad things happen to you. There are also ghosts, which author Nina LaCour wisely treats matter-of-factly. That isn’t to say that this is all good and fluffy, because it isn’t at all. It’s got a sort of found family, cottagecore-y vibe that I was not expecting and loved so much so that I plan to buy a personal copy since I returned the one from the library, and reread it again to experience how magical it was. I haven’t read many YA books that I’d describe as “haunting”, but this one was that for me. I read this book and waited two months to review it because I was so overwhelmed with how much I loved it I already checked a few more of Nina LaCour’s books out from the library and am excited to read them soon! Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his little brother and single mother are taken care of, and continue therapy to process his fathers departure.
“It was difficult, when ghosts were everywhere, to figure out what was real and what was imagined” New York Times bestseller David Arnold returns with a poignant love story about two teens whose souls come together time and again through the agesfor fans of Nina LaCour and Matt Haig.
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