Book Review: Ghostgirl: Lovesick by Tonya Hurley

Lovesick is the third sequel to Tonya Hurley’s Ghostgirl series and i’m so glad i get to have read this. I really don’t know that there is already a third book to this series. Lovesick still focuses about the lives of Charlotte Usher and Scarlet Kensington’s friendship. Charlotte has gotten the chance to return to Hawthorne High and accomplish a task. She also gets to have a love life with Eric Smash (aka Electric Eric), another entity from the other side of the world. Scarlet’s sister Petula also began to change at this point of the story. She’d been impeached by her own ‘friends’, The Wendys with the help of Darcy — who later was found out was possessed by Maddy. By becoming more humanitarian, Petula has known who her real friends are and also found her prince charming through Tate. She is also crowned as the Prom Queen. Scarlet has grown into who she really is, not mentioning in details that Damen and her somehow broke up during the latter part. She also gets to sing her own song about how she really loves him during the Funeral-themed Prom entitled Kiss your Kiss and they eventually got back together.

Lessons i learned from this book are:

* Value your Family, Friends and Enemies. Value everyone.

* Communication is key. Guessing what each other feels in a relationship is deadly. It will kill both of you.

* There is always a second chance. If not, call it another chance.

* Being true to yourself will not only make you happy but so as the people around you.

* If you want sympathy, find a friend. If you want honesty, find an enemy.

* It all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure, it is never quite what you expect.

* If two past lovers remain friends, they are either still in love, or never were.

* Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. – Albert Einstein

* The best way to know what’s really on someone’s mind is also the riskiest: you have to ask them.

So, what’s on your mind?

Book Review: Ghostgirl Homecoming by Tonya Hurley

Characters:
Scarlet
Damen
Petula
Charlotte
Maddie

chapter 9
Bird on the wire

If i, if i have been unkind,
i hope that you can just let it go by.
If i, if i have been untrue,
i hope you know it was never to you.
–Leonard Cohen

* Live and Learn, but really, Death is the best teacher.

chapter 10
This is How i Disappear

Always learn that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
–Margaret Mead

* Timing is Everything. We let some people in and keep others out for all kinds of reasons, most of them having to do with timing.

chapter 11
She sells sanctuary

i’ll pick up the pieces
i’ll carry on somehow
tape the broken parts together
and limp this love around.
–PJ Harvey

* We are all rubberneckers in life. Minding other people’s business, transforming their problems into entertainment for ourselves and basically cheating them out of their own tragedies.

chapter 12
Die young, stay pretty

Once you’re dead, you’re made for life.
–Jimi Hendrix

* Only the good die young.

chapter 13
Shadow of doubt

behind every cloud is another cloud.
–Judy Garland.

* Never trust a person who says trust me. Trust is not a given. In any relationship, it is the hardest thing to earn and the easiest to lose. In fact, the only words harsher than “i don’t love you anymore” are “i don’t trust you anymore.” The former has everything to do with someone else. There is nothing you can do about a change of heart. The latter has everything to do with you.

chapter 14
Magical thinking

a paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
–William S. Burroughs

* What doesn’t kill you makes you paranoid. Trapped in your own head, without an exit strategy, conflicted by doubt, and with only your obsessions to guide you…

chapter 15
Pretty Vacant

a narcissist is someone better looking than you.
–Gore Vidal

* a little vanity goes a long way. They have this ability to be a cheerleader for themselves, even if they’re on the losing team.

chapter 16
Bizarre Love Triangle

This wasn’t supposed to happen.
I’ve been hit with your charm.
How could you do this to me?
I’m in love again.
–The Sugarcubes

* Don’t tempt me. We all want what we can’t have. In fact, most of the time we only want things because the are unavailable or forbidden.

chapter 17
Tomorrow Never Knows

Life is about not knowing,having to change, taking the moment, and making the best of it, without knowing what to happen next.
–Gilda Radner

* We only fear what we don’t know. Yet fear is what makes us feel more alive. Familiarity breeds comfort, the Unknown breeds doubt.

chapter 18
Alone Again Or

Solitude sails in a wave of forgiveness on angels’ wings.
–Siouxsie Sioux

* It’s not you, it’s me. This are the most dreaded words spoken in any relationship. If you hear them, or if you find yourself wanting to say them, you can be pretty sure it’s over.

chapter 19
The Supernatural and the Superficial

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
–Bette Davis

* Looks are everything. There are a few ways of looking at someone. You can look up to them, you can look down on them, or you can look through them, but after some serious life lessons, you can learn to look right at them.

chapter 20
Divine Comedy

This world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.
–Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Oxford

* Better she than me. They say comedy is tragedy happening to someone else. We try to find the funny in the misfortunes of others mostly as a defense mechanism, but there is a limit. Death is no laughing matter.

chapter 21
We Will Become Silhouettes

i’ve seen you laugh at nothing at all,
i’ve seen you sadly weeping
the sweetest thing i ever saw
was you asleep and dreaming.
–The Magnetic Field

* You can only feel unloved if you’ve been loved. Once you have loved, your soul can never forget it, even if your mind does. Love becomes part of your DNA, your essence. It is as much knowledge as feeling, possessed by the deepest part of your heart and soul. This can be a blessing and a curse. There is no way to fill the emptiness, no treatment for the persistent pain of love that’s gone missing, except its return.

chapter 22
Everybody Says I Love You

Life is not about how many breaths you takes, but how many moments take your breath away.
–George Carlin

* Easy for you to say. Talk is cheap. If it wasn’t, people might not toss around “i love you” like a marked-down phrase in a sale bin. Being stingy with your feelings, saving it up for a worthwhile moment, should make it all the more meaningful to the person you eventually tell, no matter how long it takes. If you are with the right person, it is an investment worth making. The trouble is, sometimes you wait so long to hear it that you go broken inside.

My Review:

This book is the Sequel to Tonya Hurley’s Ghostgirl novel. As for this time, this book focuses on Scarlet’s adventures on how to save her sister, Petula, and bring her back to life along with her. She also get to be together with Charlotte once again although they had a little ‘friendship’ quarrel during the story. This book teaches how we should make friends and still keeping the old once. And also, don’t forget Charlotte’s grabbing the chance to be with Damen again, but because friendship is stronger, she let Damen be with Scarlet (cuz she can’t really have him in the first place!). Very good story to read for teens alike.

Book Review: Ghost Girl by Tonya Hurley

Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge it and suffer the consequences. Revealing it can either be shameful or liberating. It is for others to decide which it will be. –Ghost Girl by Tonya Hurley

Plot:

Charlotte Usher had always dream to be known, or at least noticed. Her dream man, Damen Dylan was about to be her Physics lab partner and had asked her to tutor him when she was choked by a gummy bear that caused her death. She never thought that being dead has some advantage. She learned them step by step and even made decisions unknown to her Dead Ed professor, Mr. Brain. She discovered that she can possess someone’s body and that made a great part to her story. She shared the body with Scarlet, the gothic-punk sister of her idol cheerleader, Petula Kensington. Scarlet enjoyed being out of her body but it turned out that Charlotte can do some things with her body that she’s not supposed to do like signing up for the cheerleading squad, which she passed but then quitted later. Charlotte got a hard time to realize that she’s not suppose to live anymore but rather live like the dead, just like her Dead Ed classmates. Her main goal is to know what she needed to accomplish before ‘moving on’ with them. Later in the story, Scarlet and Charlotte got in a conflict of who between them did Damen really like, they even had this swimming pool event but unfortunately interrupted by Charlotte’s Dead Ed classmate, Prue… which made the school officials find a better place to hold the annual Fall Ball. Things get a little tough between Charlotte and Prue during the party but they get to resolve it with Scarlet’s research on how Prue died. Scarlet and Damen were crowned King and Queen of the Night. Petula, however, planned to embarrass her sister with an air brush paint but the tint landed on Charlotte’s and showed her to the Living. Scarlet explained everything Charlotte has done to make the evening great and that made her be remembered by everyone. Charlotte and the other dead students graduated and finally moved on.

Reaction:

…’tis really a ghost story. Not scary. It’s even funny in its own way. Kinda reminds me of Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella. But this story really has a dark aura in it. Just wondered how Scarlet’s the only one who can see Charlotte and the other? It’s not clear to me. Is it because of her goth style? Well, the story’s good.. a teen-ghost-fiction story.