![]() ![]() Perché compare tutti i giorni, proprio a quell'ora, facendo le cose che fa, nessuno sa spiegarlo, come è difficile spiegare il perché delle apparizioni degli altri spettri.Ĭ'è lo spettro di Mary Greer, che compare tutte le mattine sul portico del professor Bittner, che era il suo insegnante molti anni prima, quando è stata trovata morta strangolata. Parliamo di fantasmi che appaiono continuamente ovunque in città.Ī casa di Veronica, ad esempio, compare il fantasma del padre, ogni mattina alle 07.13, al tavolo della cucina mentre legge il giornale e beve il suo caffè. Veronica è una sedicenne che vive in un luogo degli Stati Uniti dove da qualche anno, in seguito all'Evento, una catastrofe di immane gravità in cui sono morte migliaia di persone, si verificano apparizioni di origine sovrannaturale. Il romanzo in questione è " Sei ancora qui" di Daniel Waters, pubblicato da Sperling & Kupfer, che ringrazio per l'anteprima. Io rimango sullo scettico, anche se questo fine settimana ho letto un thriller paranormal che aveva come protagonisti proprio i fantasmi e mi son detta che forse. My heart wasn't into it, turning what could have been a very good book into a mediocre read.Īn advance copy was provided by the publisher for review.įor more of my reviews, visit my blog at Xpresso Reads It was mostly the characters that did not compel me. Still, it's unique with a really interesting premise, so I would not go and say it's terrible. It made it highly predictable as well.Ĭlearly, I was expecting something much different than what I got. Preferring my killer mysteries to be, well, mysteries, I didn't find this one especially captivating. Since we get these POVs, we already know who the killer is from the get go, and we're simply along for the ride while the characters are blind to the danger that they're in. Told in several perspectives, we have the ghost, Veronica, and the killer, which is her English teacher (and this is not a spoiler). It has a good plot overall I found the motive especially intriguing. I can absolutely get with a great serial killer story. Then there's the inclusion of two strange not-really-love-triangles, where it seems one was only included to add in a fight between the two guys, then to never hear of the first guy again except for a random scene near the end, and the other was just… bizarre. It's hard to even pinpoint why, I just found them really awkward together. ![]() Their romance gave me a very weird vibe from the beginning, as well. Fits like this annoy me, teenager or not. She gets incredibly pissed-to the point of slapping her boyfriend-because he did not pick her up after work. She's very one dimensional and I did not like her attitude at all. The protagonist, Veronica, never made me understand her. I realized I was not particularly impressed with any of the characters. However, when a certain romance begins and our main character turns incredibly moody, it went downhill fast for me. Up until halfway through, I can say I was really enjoying it, being kept enchanted by the neat story. What was this Event exactly? This question is brought up during the first few pages, without ever getting an answer. I was clearly hoping for a lot more backstory. It's a fascinating new way of life: to have ghosts appear in your classroom and not be phased by it very much. This is the part that I enjoyed the most. Plus, one of the POVs in the book is one of the ghosts - one of the few who is conscious of it, not just a recurring image or memory like most seem to be. We have a world where something caused ghosts to suddenly become a daily occurrence, a normality even. I will say, creativity is definitely apparent in the plot. Not only do we not find out anything about this Event whatsoever, the story is more of a serial killer novel - one where we know the identity of the killer from the start, which is not nearly as fun. I was expecting the plot to bring us into the story of this post-Event world, to explain how the ghosts are there, and become a little like a post apocalyptic novel where ghosts are the villain. I love ghost stories and this one was particularly different, cool even. It began on a very high note, the premise is incredibly unique and interesting. When you open a book, usually within 40-50 pages in you start getting a good perception of the plot and what direction it will lead you this was the downfall of Break My Heart, 1000 Times. ![]()
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