Absent

This book was fairly interesting. I liked the idea that you can get stuck where you die, because it made the idea of dying in high school so much worse. It's so much worse to have to witness rumors run rampant and be able to do nothing about it. The ending twists weren't really shocking, and I wish more had been done with the character of Evan. He was very interesting and not as much happened with him, which made me sad. I also finished it at like, 1 AM and then I thought waaaaaayyyy too much about the nothingness of death and almost got myself too anxious to sleep. I had to read a little bit of another book to get my thoughts off of death, hahaha.

I did get this book off of a list of 65 great YA horror stories, and it is definitely not a horror story. A ghost does not a horror story make. It was more of a tragedy. I'd recommend it to tweens.