This is not an actual picture of Homecoming, the second novel in Tonya Hurley’s ghostgirl series. No, the book is much prettier and more elaborate. It’s dark purple, with a silver gilded spine, and every page has color. It is an absolutely beautiful book.
Unfortunately, I can never read my copy again, because I used it to kill a house centipede. That’s why I’m going to give this one away and buy a new one. Also because it’s good, and it deserves to be read again.
Heaven, it would seem, is a phone bank. In Tonya’s first book we met Charlotte Usher, the girl who died on the first day of school by choking on a gummy bear. I have to say, I didn’t love Charlotte at first. She seemed selfish and clueless. But she proves herself in this second installment that involves three girls at the brink of death, with Charlotte working Heaven’s phone bank (or not working, as the case may be).
Anyway, it’s an absurd and absorbing read, in addition to being one of the prettier books I’ve ever read. I really wish I hadn’t used it to kill a house centipede. Indeed, if I hadn’t, I’d quote bits of it to you.
Instead, I’ll let you go buy your own copy. You can’t miss it.
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I had some free time to *kill* waiting for a computer at my local library today so I could print something (our printer at home here is out of ink and at $70 a pop for a new one… i’m hittin’ the .10 cents a page, baby).
Anyway, so I wander over to the YA section (my fav) and pick out three books, one of them being Ghostgirl #1! I’ve never heard of the author, the book, nothing. And now, on the same day, you post about the second one! It’s like you’re following me around and picking up the same books. We might be dopplegangers.
I think I may need to sleep with a nightlight tonight.