![]() I was a bit surprised at how some of the topics were handled. Still, the story was told from her point of view and it rolled along nicely. Her vocabulary seemed old-fashioned and overly formal. ![]() Our heroine's speech patterns were a little odd. Most of the mileage came from our heroine’s move to Carmel from NYC but there was also a baddy worthy of a Buffy Season 1 episode. It's the start of a series so it had a Season 1, Episode 1 feel to it but it did deliver a complete story in which, in addition to learning about our heroine's backstory (lives all her life in NYC, has seen ghosts forever, doesn't want to end up in a psych ward, moved to Carmel when her mother remarried), current challenges (living in California - why no Mass Transit?, attending a new posh school, having a dead guy in haunting her bedroom and having three new step-brothers) and general attitude to life (mostly positive and tolerant but very committed to performing her role as a 'mediator' helping ghosts to move on- whether they want to or not), we see a dangerous ghost being bested. She delivered a light, entertaining Young Adult tale about a teenager who can talk to the dead. I’d heard about Meg Cabot, mainly for her Princess Diaries but I'd never read one of her books before. Normally, the Young Adult books I read are Science Fiction but I thought this would be a better fit for Halloween Bingo. ![]() ![]() I read Shadowland for my Trick or Treat square on Halloween Bingo. ![]()
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