November 2018 Book Club - Ghosted

Yippee! The votes are in and we have our last batch of books to read together for 2018!

Like I've been doing the last couple of times, I am posting the next few months (September-December) all at once, so we can all get these books on hold at our libraries in time. The book we will be reading for November 2018 is Ghosted by Rosie Walsh. Please label spoilers or even type them in white like I just did right here(highlight that blank space) so that a person has to highlight it to read it.

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Oh man! That's worse than the other one. Yikes!

 

Yeah that is a super bummer Rae. I get all sad when my library doesn't have a book I want... like the one Julie recommended yesterday. I'll just keep checking and wishing they'd get it. I wonder if they take suggestions?

 

I just finished this today. I really did NOT like the beginning of this book. I had to read the first few chapters THREE times before I could even sort out who the characters were and why I cared about them. I didn't like that the chapters introduced so many new people without really actually introducing them... they where just there and I wasn't sure if I was supposed to know who they were. That really annoyed me and if I weren't reading this for a book club, I might have just given up.

BUT... after I got into the book, it got better and then I really enjoyed the last half and ending. I'm glad I pushed through. Once I started to figure out who the characters all were and got into the storyline, I couldn't put it down. I read past midnight last night and just finished the last pages on my lunch break. Can't wait to hear how everyone else felt about this one.

ETA some spoiler in white>>> Here are some randoms thoughts... I didn't get the significance of the two high school friends until the very end when Sarah is explaining to Eddie what happened the day of the accident and why she was even with that older boy. I'm glad they were finally given a reason for being in the story, but I thought they were going to be a much bigger part of the plot.

I thought it was some good trickery that Hannah didn't end up being the one who died in the accident. Obviously we were supposed to think that the whole time through and we were supposed to think it would Eddie that killed Hannah, not Sarah who killed Alex. I did NOT see that coming!

I think Eddie is an incredibly good son and kind to his mother even though she wasn't very kind or considerate of him. I wanted to scream when he caught her reading his letters to his sister! But, it was good she did, so that she knew the truth about Sarah and how it was killing Eddie to be away from her all for his mother's sake. I was also glad to see a tiny concession to talking to Sarah at the very end when the mother thanked her for her grandson.

I know there are many things that weren't very logical, like why Hannah would be mad at Sarah for decades for a mistake and that they couldn't have worked it out sooner, but I know that was like that for plot reasons otherwise you wouldn't be able to think she had been the one who died. Anyway, I was willing to forgive those details in favor of a happy ending. Not sure I would have been willing to forgive someone who was responsible for a siblings death, but I liked how it was written about his panic driving to the hospital to see Sarah giving birth and how that helped him understand her decision to swerve off the road to save her sister. <<<end spoilers in white

Ok WOW! I just wrote my own book. Lol. I'm done now.