This book was published on August 28, 2018, but I read the advanced reader's copy. Undoubtedly there will be some changes between the version I read and the published version.
Who's up for a ghost story? With a character who happens to have odd parents who write stories about ghosts and history? And whose daughter can see ghosts but they don't know? Wikkity what?
An amazon summary, "Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead . . . and enter the world of spirits. Her best friend is even a ghost.
So things are already pretty strange. But they're about to get much stranger.
When Cass's parents start hosting a TV show about the world's most haunted places, the family heads off to Edinburgh, Scotland. Here, graveyards, castles, and secret passageways teem with restless phantoms. And when Cass meets a girl who shares her "gift," she realizes how much she still has to learn about the Veil -- and herself.
And she'll have to learn fast. The city of ghosts is more dangerous than she ever imagined." AMAZON LINK OF JUSTICE
Cass can see ghosts because she nearly drowned in a river, but when she nearly drowned she got a new best friend. A new ghost best friend, Jacob. Since she nearly drowned, she can feel the pull of the veil; the veil is the division between the living and the dead. When there's a ghost nearby, she feels a tap tap tap from the veil, and it's like an itch she has to scratch. When she crosses the veil, Jacob goes with her, and they witness the how the ghost died.
Cass is all set to go to the beach with her parents, per their tradition... but due to her parent's rather odd career of writing ghost/history novels, they're flying to Scotland to film a new TV show. Cass is going with them, and she's a little nervous about going to one of the most haunted places in the world. However, while she's out and about exploring with her parents, she's sucked into the veil. Jacob manages to pull her out, but there's a lingering haunting song from one of the ghosts that's bothering her. She meets someone else who can also cross into the veil, and the girl teaches her about releasing ghosts from the veil. She refers to herself and Cass as "Inbetweeners". ....which is kind of lame, but whatever, I digress.
That's enough summary.
I liked Cass's personality for the most part, but I was kind of irked about the general mystery surrounding Jacob. For Jacob being Cass's best friend and able to read her mind, he kept a TON of secrets from Cass, and he still continues to keep those secrets. I imagine there will be sequel stories, where we will find out more about Jacob, but I'm just a bit miffed at how little was offered about him.
I also found the parents career to be a little TOO convenient to set up the plot of why Cass would go to Scotland and specifically to all those super haunted places. It was just too easy of a set up and kind of didn't feel natural at all. And, why on earth would you bring your cat to Scotland for a week? Why? Makes zero sense to me. They should have kenneled the cat or asked someone to look after it; I find it kind of perturbing that they're like, NAH, THE CAT GOES WITH. Like....what? It just seems a bit implausible/unreasonable to me.
Overall, I did find the story quite interesting, I think it took a little while to get there though. There was a long lead up to the pitch, and even during the pitch I had a few moments wondering how much longer the high stakes drama would last.
If there's a sequel, I don't think I'm going to read it.
Happy reading!
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