
Now she's in Dead Ed, where all the students are teens who died in various gruesome and ridiculous ways. (Piccolo Pam swallowed her piccolo; Call Me Kim got too much cell phone radiation.) But Charlotte would rather hang around Damen and plot how to get with him even though she's dead—and invisible to everyone except Scarlet, the local goth and sister of Damen's bitchy plastic girlfriend, Petula.
The best thing about Tonya Hurley's ghostgirl is its spectacular design. The images on the web don't do it justice. It's a really, really cool-looking book, from its unique size to the pretty endpapers. Unfortunately, the writing and characterization are not much more than cute. Charlotte has no personality and is therefore difficult to root for. All we know about her is that she wants to be popular, she wants Damen, and she's pretty good at physics. Scarlet is a bit more sympathetic, but she, too, is underdeveloped. I did like some other macabre little details, like the school marching band that plays "The Beautiful People" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart." But overall, this story seems better suited for a graphic novel or movie. They should have subtitled it "an unfortunate series of events."
1 comments:
it is too bad the characters were not more developed, it sounds like the book had some really cute ideas.
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