Not Quite a Ghost *Blog Tour & Giveaway!*
Welcome to the 5th stop on the Blog Tour for Anne Ursu's latest page turner, Not Quite a Ghost!
Those that know me well know that I love a good ghost story. When I was asked if I'd like to be an early reader and supporter of Not Quite a Ghost there was no way I was going to turn that down. It's also Anne Ursu, so there was no way I was turning it down period. And I'm so glad for all the time I spent alongside Violet as she navigated life in middle school with an invisible illness and a not quite invisible something...inside the walls of the house on Katydid Street.
About the Book:
The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn’t fit among them. For Violet Hart — whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street — very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet’s group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn’t enough for Violet’s best friend, Paige. Everything seemed to be changing at once. But sometimes, Violet tells herself, change is okay.
That is, until Violet sees her new room. The attic bedroom in their new house is shadowy, creaky, and wrapped in old yellow wallpaper covered with a faded tangle of twisting vines and sickly flowers. And then, after moving in, Violet falls ill — and does not get better. As days turn into weeks without any improvement, her family growing more confused and her friends wondering if she’s really sick at all, she finds herself spending more time alone in the room with the yellow wallpaper, the shadows moving in the corners, wrapping themselves around her at night.
And soon, Violet starts to suspect that she might not be alone in the room at all.
Why It's for Me:
The cover grabs your attention. Look up, look up, there is a creepy shadow figure sitting on your door frame! Violet looks into her room, seemingly shocked at what she's looking at...but we see what she isn't looking at, and that is far more terrifying!
Once inside the book getting to know Violet was easy. She is pleasant to be around. She cares for her friends and her little brother., and misses the connection she had with her older sister. She is a fairly typical kid it seems, which is why it is so easy to root for her, and worry for her. As much as I cringed at knowing middle school friendship troubles, I also smiled at the sweet relationship Violet struck up with Will, a quiet boy that works in the library during P.E. class. Will's interest in ghost hunting proves all too useful when Violet's fears of her attic bedroom come to be worse than she could have ever anticipated.
It's real, relationship and health problems. It's dark and dangerous, something is hunting you in the safety of your own home. And it's triumphant, Violet may experience spells of physical weakness, but she is far from being a weak person.
About the Author:
Anne Ursu is the author of acclaimed novels The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy, The Lost Girl, Breadcrumbs, and The Real Boy, among others. Her work has been selected as a National Book Award nominee, a Kirkus Prize finalist, and as a best book of the year by Parents Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Amazon.com, and School Library Journal. She lives in Minneapolis with her family and an unruly herd of cats. Find Anne online at anneursu.com
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