even though it is predictable, the pacing is fast, and it is a true page-turner.i read this in two giant gulps, and it was never boring, even when it was clear what the big reveal was going to be.there is something satisfying about it, like chugging orange juice on a really hot dayīut the characters.

but instead of getting to go back and try to change certain things, ghost-liz and the ghost of a boy from her school who also recently died can only observe what happens after her death, and slip back and view random episodes from their pasts to try to figure out the mysteries of their deaths.Īs a mystery novel, it is enjoyable. It is similar in a lot of ways to before i fall - dead girl only realizes after she is dead what a horrible bitch she was when she was alive. and it has good things going for it, but at the end of the day, it was a diversion, and nothing more, a YA mystery novel with more ambition than some, but not a favorite.

i mean - looking at the ratings on here, people are over the moon about it. the other shows just kind of form this hazy memory of 'something i experienced once to pass the time.' and that's how i feel about this book, i guess. but - the house has to get cleaned, right? and it's all background noise anyway.īut the point is, and there is a point - i can remember the plots of most of the law and orders i have seen. in desperate times, i will watch without a trace or csi, but i kind of hate them. criminal intent comes somewhere down after them - i hate the music for the show, and i hate how every episode ends the same way. they are nowhere near as good as law and order, but they will do - sometimes they have good guest actors and some original plotlines. ncis and criminal minds are lower, and as i have only recently discovered them, 'cuz my dad likes them, there are a ton i haven't seen, which is nice. law and order (excluding criminal intent) is the preferred choice. There is a definite preference-hierarchy to the shows i will watch. i don't know why, i just find them soothing - the shape of the narrative tends to be consistent, and they usually have enough action sequences for me to pace my laundry-folding and book restacking in a productive way. So, when i am cleaning house, i like to have some sort of police procedural on in the background.

Between by jessica warman