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Fantasy. Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. Trying to shake off the strange malaise that separates her from even her girlfriend Izzy, Tee decides to take over the Bed-Stuy Searchlight for the summer. But then she finds an alluring violet dress in the newspaper office, and a cute ghost girl no one else can see. Izzy can tell Tee's drifting away from her—she misses Izzy's shows and skips shadowshaper practice—and she won't stand for it. Yet when a girl goes missing in Bed-Stuy, show more Izzy needs Tee to get the word out and help investigate. Can they break through their distance and reconnect before someone else dies? show lessTags
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DON'T MIND ME. I'M JUST GOING TO THROW MYSELF AROUND FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS, UNABLE TO FUNCTION PROPERLY AFTER READING THING.
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Fantastic pacing, best characters, bad baddies, 'shaping, Easter eggs for all us creepily obsessive dedicated DJO fans, perfect length, teaser-rific. I just. Gah. Yes.
Soooo...can you keep cranking out multiple stories a year, Older, please and thank you?
Novellas are the best, y'all.
This was totally worth staying up past my bedtime.
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Fantastic pacing, best characters, bad baddies, 'shaping, Easter eggs for all us creepily obsessive dedicated DJO fans, perfect length, teaser-rific. I just. Gah. Yes.
Soooo...can you keep cranking out multiple stories a year, Older, please and thank you?
Novellas are the best, y'all.
This was totally worth staying up past my bedtime.
Series Info/Source: This is a novella in the Shadowshaper Cypher series, which I did not know when I picked it up to read from my library. It does not stand alone well and I would only pick this up if you've read at least the first book in the Shadowshaper Cypher series. I borrowed this on audiobook from my library.
Thoughts: I am giving this 4 stars because I didn't finish it because I didn't realize it was part of a series. I got about 50% of the way through this and then set it aside. I was incredibly confused about what was going on throughout the story.
The story seems to be following some characters that are part of a Shadowshaper Society or something and some of them are in a band (or they are rappers?) as well. The main character show more is having relationship troubles with her girlfriend and there is a strange ghost girl in the shop that she runs. That's about what I got from this book in the first half.
The writing isn't bad or anything. There's a lot of slang and the narration on the audiobook was a bit hard to understand with background noise. It wasn't really for me and I was so lost about who was who and what was going on that I decided not to continue it.
If you are a fan of this series you'll probably enjoy this, but if you are just looking for a novella to read and haven't read other books in the series you'll be completely lost and confused.
My Summary (4/5): Overall the first half of this book was well written but hard to follow if you haven't read other books in the series. I didn't enjoy it enough to finish it or to go back and pick up other books in this series. I was just looking for a fun, quick, paranormal novella audiobook to listen to and this didn't really work for me because of how confused I was about the characters and the world. show less
Thoughts: I am giving this 4 stars because I didn't finish it because I didn't realize it was part of a series. I got about 50% of the way through this and then set it aside. I was incredibly confused about what was going on throughout the story.
The story seems to be following some characters that are part of a Shadowshaper Society or something and some of them are in a band (or they are rappers?) as well. The main character show more is having relationship troubles with her girlfriend and there is a strange ghost girl in the shop that she runs. That's about what I got from this book in the first half.
The writing isn't bad or anything. There's a lot of slang and the narration on the audiobook was a bit hard to understand with background noise. It wasn't really for me and I was so lost about who was who and what was going on that I decided not to continue it.
If you are a fan of this series you'll probably enjoy this, but if you are just looking for a novella to read and haven't read other books in the series you'll be completely lost and confused.
My Summary (4/5): Overall the first half of this book was well written but hard to follow if you haven't read other books in the series. I didn't enjoy it enough to finish it or to go back and pick up other books in this series. I was just looking for a fun, quick, paranormal novella audiobook to listen to and this didn't really work for me because of how confused I was about the characters and the world. show less
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Daniel José Older is an American. He writes fantasy and young adult fiction. His debut novel was Half-Resurrection Blues which is the first book in his urban fantasy series, Bone Street Rumba. His other books include Salsa Nocturna and Shadowshaper. His short stories and essays have appeared in various print and online media. He is co-editor of show more the anthology Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History. He also facilitates workshops on storytelling. Formerly he worked as an emergency medical technician in New York City. He is a musician and member of the soul quartet Ghost Star. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Daniel José Older is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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- Canonical title
- Ghost Girl in the Corner
- Original publication date
- 2016-11-29
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Tween, Young Adult, Fantasy
- DDC/MDS
- 813.6 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 2000-
- LCC
- PS648 .F3 .O434 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
- BISAC
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- 55
- Popularity
- 553,986
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (4.23)
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Media
- Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 3
