This Is Not a Ghost Story

Did I like This is Not a Ghost Story? I honestly don't know how I feel.

It took until about halfway through the book for it to hit its stride. That's when it started to be hard to put down. You still have absolutely no idea what's going on in the story, but it picks up the pace. The short chapters made it easy to keep reading just one more for the night, and before I knew it, the book was done.

I'm undecided if I like the style of the book. Daffodil, the narrator, talks directly to the reader, and there are a lot of asides, parentheses, offbeat jokes. On the one hand, it makes the story feel more immediate and creates a closer connection to Daffodil. On the other, it was a bit much at times. There was sometimes very little content, and it could be repetitive.

I just feel like it didn't really come together at the end; it felt anticlimactic.

I'll give it this; now I want to make people read it just to see what they think of it.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Ok, I guessed that she was dead or in a coma about halfway through, but what was up with the end? Is it supposed to be religious? Because it felt religious, but that doesn't jive with the vibe of the rest of the book.

Honestly having another “Loneliness Girl in The Universe” moment, where at the start, I absolutely despised reading the book, but as it went along, I actually started to get into the story as it began to unravel, ultimately culminating in that honestly, pretty good surprise twist of an ending. Like the protagonist mentions earlier on in the book, ‘can't judge a book by it's cover' (literal, in this case.)