In my book Paige, which is the main character has taken over her friend Usha's body. She took over her body by accident at first but then realized she could use her body to tell people that her death wasn't a suicide. She at first was going to just tell people that it was an accident but then came up with the idea to paint a mural for herself as Usha to tell them that it wasn't a suicide.
My book has been very interesting so far, it is about a girl who has died, by jumping off of the roof at her school. She is stuck as a spirit at her school and has to walk around and hear people gossip about how she committed suicide, but she didn't. When she died she was on the roof for a project for her chemistry class, dropping an egg off the roof, when it was her turn she got distracted and turned around and fell backwards off of the roof. Her best friend is mad at her for not telling her she was depressed, but she wasn't and she doesn't know how to tell her since she is dead.
there's just not very much to say about this book, honestly. it was pretty decent. it was a short, easy read and even though i thought that the premise of the story was absolutely ridiculous, it's also worth saying that i'm 22 years old, so i wouldn't be too worried about how people thought that i committed suicide once i was already dead. honestly, it's just hard for me to slip back into the high school mindset sometimes, but as far as that headspace goes, this was a pretty decent representation of it, and there was a neat little twist or two that kept things interesting.
(Description nicked from B&N.com.)
“When seventeen-year-old Paige dies in a freak fall from the roof during Physics class, her spirit is bound to the grounds of her high school. At least she has company: her fellow ghosts Evan and Brooke, who also died there. But when Paige hears the rumor that her death wasn’t an accident—that she supposedly jumped on purpose—she can’t bear it. Then Paige discovers something amazing. She can possess living people when they think of her, and she can make them do almost anything. Maybe, just maybe, she can get to the most popular girl in school and stop the rumors once and for all.”
I'm still processing how I feel about this book. It's a short one, less than 200 pages, and I can't decide if it needed to be much longer or much much shorter. The characters felt like rough sketches, and I found myself wanting more detail and depth in all of them. Especially the main character, who I found myself disliking for most of the story. (Though I did like Evan.) This would have been relieved if this was a true short story, but it was just long enough that it felt incomplete. The themes were there, but not explored as much as I'd have liked. The story was interesting, but nothing breathtaking. The writing was solid, but nothing that blew my socks off. It was one of those almost but not quite reads for me. I kept thinking I'd rather be rereading Every Day by Leviathan or Before I Fall by Oliver. It was sort of a blend of the two in many ways. All in all it was a good read, but not the great one I feel like it could have been.
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