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Rose Asher believes in ghosts. She should, since she has one for a best friend: Logan, her annoying, Netflix-addicted brother, who is forever stuck at fifteen. But Rose is growing up, and when an old friend moves back to Laguna Canyon and appears in her drama class, things get complicated.
Jamie Aldridge is charming, confident, and a painful reminder of the life Rose has been missing out on since her brother's death. She watches as Jamie easily rejoins their former friends--a group of magnificently silly theater nerds--while avoiding her so intensely that it must be deliberate.
Yet when the two of them unexpectedly cross paths, Rose learns that Jamie has a secret of his own, one that changes everything. Rose finds herself drawn back into her old life--and to Jamie. But she quickly starts to suspect that he isn't telling her the whole truth.
All Rose knows is that it's becoming harder to choose between the boy who makes her feel alive and the brother she isn't ready to lose.
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My Review 4/5 Stars
Haven't read many books with ghosts, but I have to say this one was pretty good. It's always interesting to see different takes on the supernatural. This book held my attention beginning to end. Especially that I read it in a day. So the main character Rose lost her brother when she was 12. She always felt guilty for his death because she regrets the last thing she said for him and ran from her house. On his way to find her, he got stung by bees, which he is highly allergic to and forgot to grab his Epipen on the way out. Devastated by his death, she closes herself off from her friends. And then not too long after she begins to see Logan's ghost. So for the next four years her brother is still with her and she is desperate to hold onto her brother. Rose thought she liked to be invisible, she may not like her new friends but she always felt it was too late to go back to her friends before Logan's death. But everything changes when Jamie returns. Jamie and Rose were close as children, but he moved away after his parents' divorce. Now he is back and their connection rekindles. Though it is more than just their friendship that connects them. Jamie reveals a secret that changes everything Rose knew. Then Rose learns what it is like to have friends she actually cares for and who like her back again and maybe even what it is like to fall in love. But the more she grows up the more she pulls away from Logan. Rose is torn between moving on and letting go of the person who has always been there for her. A really sweet story with a nice splash of the supernatural and the lesson of moving on even though it is hard.
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