Ghostgirl Homecoming

[Guest miss kindheart]

The last book that I read was called ghostgirl Homecoming, by Tonya Hurley,

When I first spied it at the store, I saw myself on the front cover. I picked it up and quickly skimmed through it , and knew I had to buy and read it, and I am so glad that I did.

It is the second book in the ghostgirl series, and as I read it I saw myself in it in a way.

Some have described it with these words:

afterlife, arc, children's, coma, death, diaries, fantasy, female, fiction, friendship, ghostgirl, ghosts, girls, gothic, high school, homecoming, journey, kids, loneliness, love, mentorship, popularity, quotations, romance, roommates, sister, supernatural, teen, teen fiction, young adult.

This is my short accounting of it :

The story is about a young high school girl named Charlotte, she choked on a jelly bean and died. In the after life she was processed and found herself a member of a telephone crisis line for troubled teens. She quickly discovered that she was very different than all the others that were there. There were several there that called her friend, but they were all too busy answering their calls to spend any time with her. The calls were in reality thoughts from the living that were having troubles and the ghosts were like their conscience answering back.

Charlotte's phone never rang and she was all alone, till one day when she got the most important call of all.

An old girlfriend from her high school died and her spirit left her body and was being processed to cross over. The Dr's brought her body back to life, but without her spirit she was in a coma and destined to die. Charlotte broke the most scared rule of all, and risked everything including her soul to cross back over to the living. She found her friends spirit and took it back to her body, and gave her, Her life back.

I thought it was a wonderful story and would recommend it to everyone.

The greatest thing in the book for me was "Quotations" and how they were tied to the story.

Chapter 1. Answered prayers cause more tears that those that remain unanswered. --Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumanda

Chapter 2. A true friend stabs you in the front. -- Oscar Wilde

Chapter 3. Fantasy love is much better than reality love. -- Andy Warhol

Chapter 4. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. -- Anais Nin

Chapter 5. In a manner of speaking, I just want to say That I could never forget the way you told me everything By saying nothing. -- Tuxedomoon

Chapter 6. I can now see everything falling to pieces before my eyes -- Ian Curtis

Chapter 7. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. --Kurt Vonnegut

Chapter 8, Did I dream you dreamed about me. -- Tim Buckley

Chapter 9. If I , if I have been unkind, I hope that you can just let it go by. If I, if I have been untrue, I hope you know it was never to you. -- Lenard Cohen

Chapter 10. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else -- Margret Mead

Chapter 11. I'll pick up the pieces I'll carry on somehow , Tape the broken parts together And limp this love around. -- P J Harvey

Chapter 12. Once your dead , you're made for life. -- Jimi Hendrix

Chapter 13. Behind every cloud is another cloud. -- Judy Garland

Chapter 14. A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. -- William S . Burroughs

Chapter 15. A narcissist is someone better looking than you. Gore Vidal

Chapter 16. This wasn't supposed happen. I've been hit with your charm. How could you do this to me ? I'm in love again. -- The Sugarcubes

Chapter 17. Life is about not knowing, having to change. Taking the moment and making the best of it , without knowing what's going to happen next. --Gilda Radner

Chapter 18. Solitude sails in a wave of forgiveness on angels wings. -- Siouxie Sioux

Chapter 19. Everybody has a heart. Except some people. -- Bette Davis

Chapter 20. This world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel. -- Horace Walpole, Forth Earl of Oxford

Chapter 21. I've seen you laugh at nothing at all , Ive seen you sadly weeping , The sweetest thing I ever saw , Was you asleep and dreaming . -- The Magnetic Fields

Chapter 22. Life is not about how many breaths you take, But about how many moments take your breath away. -- George Carlin

Chapter 23. I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me. -- Charlene

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