Hi so is review is kinda late and I apologize! Without further or do, let's get into it!

This book is following 3 teens called Lucy, Anthony, and George. A epidemic has broken out in Europe many many years ago, and now many people work for ghost hunting agencies, especially if you have 'the sight'. We follow a 1st POV of Lucy working with Anthony (Lockwood) and George, on a case with an angry, dead, woman.

So I'm gonna start my review by saying, I actually think this book might have been better as YA. It's not that I don't like middle grade, in fact whenever I read the genre I usually love it. But I find books sometimes in the middle grade range, that I definitely think would work better as YA books, and this is one of them. Maybe it's because Lucy (our main character) was 14 or 15 years old, or maybe it was because it just felt like it could have been structured better (I think it actually might be both.) And I think this is the reason I didn't give this book a 4 or 5 stars.

This book was solid. I found the writing good, the characters fleshed out, and I enjoyed how Stroud had the first part of the book in the present, and a part of the book in the past. But I just wasn't WOWED but it.

I didn't hate this. Lucy was a really enjoyable character (a no nonsense badass basically), and Lockwood and George were good characters too, I just didn't feel any chemistry between the characters together. Individually they all worked, but in MY (see how I say MY) opinion, they don't really mesh well together.

I also didn't really like ghost story? I don't know what word to use here but I just didn't like the stupid decisions some of the characters made. I know this is middle grade, so it's a "life lesson" type thing, but I've said this before and I'll say it again, "I usually can't get on board with characters being idiots just to further the plot." If that's for you, cool. But it just felt almost forced. Lucy is a 14 or 15 year girl (so roughly my age range) and it almost felt weird that she made the stupid decisions she did, (I know teens make mistakes, I do too. And again it's a middle grade I understands). Especially since she knows the rules of her job, and to what extent she can do things and idk it felt like Lucy was kind of an idiot. But I will give it to her, she did fix her mistakes when they needed fixing so I guessed I enjoyed that.

But that's not to say I didn't like it, it was a pretty average read for me, but I still enjoyed it. The World was actually really cool, and complex in ways, and like I said, I enjoyed the characters, if not together than individually.

Overall though, this felt very ehh for me, and I probably won't be continuing on.

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I enjoyed this but I don't know if I'll continue on REVIEW TO COME

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