What can I say about a book that makes me cry, and not from being sad. The last book that affected me this way was a novel by David Levithan...
Though hard to believe, this book is the authors first novel and I can't wait to read more by her. At one point, oh say a third of the way in, the hair raised on the nape of my neck and the thought occurred, is this as good as I think it is? And as I read, I realized, yes...it was.

The main character of this book is a ghost who you just fall in love with right away. She's so precious, at first you think that the book will continue in a sort of prim archaic way. But not so...see this takes place in a high school during modern times, and the author's ability to move from modern vernacular to  old world with ease is part of what made my hair stand on end. If fact when she and James, her love meet and begin to get to know one another, their language changes as they get comfortable. When they speak as they might have when they were alive, its old fashioned to us, but somehow you feel their ease and the language, though eloquent gives you the sense of ease betwen them. The more antiquated, the more intimate.
Mmmm makes me shiver even now. I loved this book. I LOVED this book.

Few have touched me as this one has.

And Im thankful that a books such as this has brought back my enthusiasm...my interest and endless fascination of what could be...

Laura Whitcomb
thank you