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Sheets by Brenna Thummler
2.0

There's not much I have to say about this one. It was cute-ish. I realize there is a lot of belief that you have to suspend when reading something that deals with ghosts but there were a lot of things in here that just annoyed me to no end. Like how absent Marjorie's dad was, both at home in the business, and everything else. I understand that grief manifests itself differently for people but he had a 13 year-old running the business along with her school obligations and taking care of her five-year old brother. I really wanted to smack him hard across his face opened handed. He was a crap dad.

Then, there was fact that Mr. Saubertuck kept straight up harassing her and *none* of the adults, with the exception of her swim coach and his wife, found something wrong with this. And that this guy even knew where the extra key was to break in and try to sabotage the business? It bugged because honestly someone would have called him on that, especially in a town so small that you could have a business doing other people's actual laundry. Even the adults that didn't like Marjorie or how the business had changed would have been telling him to back the eff off (or maybe I'm just naive in my faith in humanity).

There also seemed to be no reason as to why the people treated Marjorie the way they did. Even the mean girl since in mos YA, there's always a reason for targeting like this. Even if it is something as small as "She tore the head of my Barbie on the first day of kindergarten", there's a reason.
Outside of Marjorie, Wendell, and the coach and his wife, everyone in this book was a certain level of terrible.

The friendship between Marjorie and Wendell was sweet, even if it seemed rushed at the end. Overall it was okay but I've ready better books and graphic novels dealing with the relationship between ghosts and living people and this was not up to that quite up to the caliber that this one was. I didn't hate it by any means but I didn't love it either. We have a totally platonic relationship, this book and me.