The afterlife

Hmm. I've HEARD from different reputable sources that this book is like reluctant reader candy. It hasn't circulated much here, but I'm planning to booktalk it with some other ghost books and see if it goes.

It was a quick read, and I liked it okay, but it wasn't that satisfying for me personally? Like Chuy gets stabbed for basically no reason, and then finds the guy who did it, and I thought maybe it would be like a ghost mystery where he solves his own murder, but, spoiler, nothing really happens there, which I found sort of unsatisfying. Is that the point? Like sometimes your murder goes unsolved and you better just accept that before you fade from this earthly plane? Also the love-at-first-sight thing with the only other ghost he meets felt kinda weak to me.

The bilingual ghost narrator is cool, and I wish we had more overall diversity in the YA ghost/horror genre.