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After finishing this book I was angry and confused enough to visit this review section and see if other readers had the answers to my questions. My policy is to never write reviews, but after finding absolutely no one talking about the issues that nagged at me, I decided to make an exception.

Most of the negative reviews focus on the writing style -- a stream of consciousness, teenaged girl angst that I am quite familiar with, having once been a teenaged girl myself. I have to completely disagree with the people completely turned off by the prose. I think the book completely captures the darker, artsy teenaged girl persona and really enjoyed that part of the book. Some of the events and character reactions are so close to experiences I have had it was eerie.

In fact, it is because I cared about Thea and got invested in the character that I left angry after finishing the novel. Not only is the story never resolved, but by the end I realized that rather than validating some of the personal growth and positive messages for troubled teens I had originally read into the story, my interpretation abruptly changed to one of anger at the vulnerability of the protagonist and how sad it is that some kids just can never get a break.

The thing is, nowhere in the teaser synopsis and not one person in the reviews hints at Ghost Time as a prime example of a novel employing the Unreliable Narrator. I can't explain more clearly without spoilers, But it is misleading and frustrating to get so far into a book thinking it is science fiction when I now believe it is not.

So I settled on a rating of 3 stars because it is an engrossing book from the perspective of it capturing the dark adolescence of a believable teenaged girl. I am not one of those people that think teens should be spared sex and negative personal interactions, and I think the family problems, problems with peers, problems with self esteem, problems with sexuality... the gamut of teen issues... will be highly relatable to most teens attracted to this type of story. But if not for these redeeming factors I would rate it lower. That last time I was this dissatisfied with the resolution of a story arc was the finale of Lost.


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Ghost Time eBook Courtney Eldridge Reviews

May and probably does contain spoilers.

I have spent the last few hours detoxing from my rapid reading of Ghost Time. I seriously needed to wrap my brain around all that I consumed. Then I found I really needed to get these words "on paper" or I will never get to sleep tonight. First off; this is not a book for young teenagers. Besides the fact profanity is constantly lobbed at you in word bomb form, there is also sex between an 15 and 18 year old couple. I just don't think this is a subject appropriately printed for a YA teen crowd. BTW - this is part one of a trilogy set to publish.

Next the method of the way the book is written. From a first person point of view of Thea Denny. The style reminded me of old black and white movies where all the characters talked fast and over each other now imagine that in scrip form with no punctuation occasional paragraph breaks or no quotations or anything like that in between sure you may get some italicized words but very few character markers like quotations. Top it off with vapid "teen" speak like "I go". Believe it or not it was still easy to get into the flow of style. A little distracting at first but then for some reason it all made sense.

Then we have how the chapters are broken up. Monday, April 4, 2011 527PM is our first chapter. Or the Apex of our Butterfly Affect of a story. Monday, April 4, 2011 (Two Hours Later) 728 PM is our next chapter. Monday, April 4, 2011 (To Hours Earlier) 332 PM. There are no page numbers to reference, just the date at the top of the page and the time at the bottom of the page. Then we alternate future, past, future, past, and so on. What's interesting is how the past chapter feeds into the future chapter, much like a cause and effect.

The premise is one of a few. What if God were a teenage girl? Time moves in two directions; both forward and back. The Butterfly Affect. Everything has a code. And so on.

So what is this book? Is it horror? Murder mystery? Conspiracy theory? Book about a crazy girl sitting in a white jacket in a phyc ward? Altered reality? Converging dimensions? Book about a handicapped girl with an over active imagination? Proof that a journal named Hubble is really God's notebook? I have to be honest that I'm still wondering.

Cam was in the book a whole lot considering he went missing at the very beginning and started this emotional roller coaster of a ride through written word. His voice is clear when the chapters jump to the past. He seems like a boy with a purpose. One who is able to see the world without its filters and is trying to crack the code. When he does speak about the 3% of our reality he does sound a little fanatical. So much to the point that Thea pokes fun at him. But, Cam seems to have made an impression with Thea because in the future chapters she befriends Melody who is completely paralyzed and a mute. But Thea can "hear" her in her mind. Thea can also "see" Mel in her true beautiful form and the two unlikely teens become best friends.

Cam is the driving force for Thea's growth and awakening. In the past chapters we see how much they love one another. How much chemistry they have with one another. We see Cam in Thea's slightly obsessed eyes and can't help but love Cam a little ourselves. I do need to pause here a bit because I am annoyed with Cam. Hopefully he will be redeemed in the future installments of the trilogy. But throughout the book in the past we are shown how much they love one another and then in the future chapters there is nothing but bad juju. Videos of the couple having sex show up on sites all over the internet and not only can they not be deleted but they seem to be getting sharper and clearer with each click view. It's alluded that Cam uploaded these videos. If he did, what an awful, horrible, despicable soon to be dead ex-boyfriend he would be. OK, rant over.

The cracks in Thea's world begin to manifest in FBI Agent Foley, he reminded me a lot of Agent Smith from The Matrix in his doggedness and let's just say it, weirdness. All interaction with him were surreal at the very least. They reminded me of cold, sterile, unnerving, creepy, interactions where somewhere in the shadows you hear but cannot see, a drip constantly dripping and the screen is just off kilter. But I do wonder since we meet Agent Foley in the future if maybe Thea is now seeing the real him with her new eyes?

The story ripples out from the epicenter of the beginning. Moving back and forth into the future and past as Thea navigates life without Cam and how to cope with the craziness that is now her life since he disappeared to the day Thea and Cam finally meet and then ultimately where this installment ends. The ending was very abrupt and not so subtle at all. In my mind's eye it was much akin to the curtain dropping on the first act. Now I must await this intermission of sorts until the next act.

This is beautifully written and well fleshed out. I found myself in the world of Thea. While some may not appreciate how this book ended with seemingly no resolution and quite a few questions in the head. I have to say that I really loved this book. I do have a lot of questions but honestly I feel like I figured it all out. I cannot wait to read the next book and find out how wrong I am! 5 solid stars for the simple reason that this one will keep me wondering. Love that in a book and can forgive the "I go's".

I received this ARC by Content Services/ Children's Publishing free to me in exchange for my honest review.
After finishing this book I was angry and confused enough to visit this review section and see if other readers had the answers to my questions. My policy is to never write reviews, but after finding absolutely no one talking about the issues that nagged at me, I decided to make an exception.

Most of the negative reviews focus on the writing style -- a stream of consciousness, teenaged girl angst that I am quite familiar with, having once been a teenaged girl myself. I have to completely disagree with the people completely turned off by the prose. I think the book completely captures the darker, artsy teenaged girl persona and really enjoyed that part of the book. Some of the events and character reactions are so close to experiences I have had it was eerie.

In fact, it is because I cared about Thea and got invested in the character that I left angry after finishing the novel. Not only is the story never resolved, but by the end I realized that rather than validating some of the personal growth and positive messages for troubled teens I had originally read into the story, my interpretation abruptly changed to one of anger at the vulnerability of the protagonist and how sad it is that some kids just can never get a break.

The thing is, nowhere in the teaser synopsis and not one person in the reviews hints at Ghost Time as a prime example of a novel employing the Unreliable Narrator. I can't explain more clearly without spoilers, But it is misleading and frustrating to get so far into a book thinking it is science fiction when I now believe it is not.

So I settled on a rating of 3 stars because it is an engrossing book from the perspective of it capturing the dark adolescence of a believable teenaged girl. I am not one of those people that think teens should be spared sex and negative personal interactions, and I think the family problems, problems with peers, problems with self esteem, problems with sexuality... the gamut of teen issues... will be highly relatable to most teens attracted to this type of story. But if not for these redeeming factors I would rate it lower. That last time I was this dissatisfied with the resolution of a story arc was the finale of Lost.