Amy Sparling
YA Contemporary Romance with Ghosts
Publisher: 336Love
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Synopsis:
Seventeen-year-old Taylor Gray moves to Sterling Island to get over her dead boyfriend. Mom’s cool with letting her crash on the couch, but Taylor needs to get a job before the lights are cut off again.
When the tall, dark and crazy Raine Tsunami offers her a position at his thriving ghost tour business, she figures it’s an easy way to make some cash. Taylor isn’t afraid of ghosts--that crap is as fake as her mom’s boob job. She loves their adventures on the historic island, especially the secret places he shows her when the crowds go home. So what if all the ghost stories are just legends?
When Taylor comes face to face with a ghost and Raine crosses the line between friend and boyfriend--Taylor’s new life collides with her haunted past. If murdered people end up as ghosts, then that someone she was trying to forget is probably watching her.
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Excerpt
Friday
comes way too fast and I'm not even mentally prepared by the time eight o'clock
rolls around. It's been so long since I've hung out with anyone besides
Brendan, and now I'll be with several people my age. At least they didn't
appear to be stuck up or judgmental. Well, besides judging me for not believing
in ghosts. Of course, it's been my experience that people judge you more once
they see where you live. I vow to make sure they never find out.
"Do
you have big plans tonight?" Margret asks as we finish closing up the
museum. I know she knows I have plans; she just likes to remind me. And to
think I had spent all of my seventeen years wishing I had a loving grandma like
in the movies. Margret is basically a loving grandma and she's starting to get
on my nerves.
"Tay-lor."
She waves her hand in my face. I jolt out of my daydreams. "Yes," I
say. "Anna and Pax are meeting me after work, remember?"
"Oh,
that's right," she says, all coy-like. Yeah, as if she didn't remember.
"Do you think Raine will be there?"
"I
don't know."
"I
bet he'll be there." She puts all the day's donations into a bank deposit
bag and zips it closed.
"Why
does it matter?"
"Because
if anyone can make a believer out of you, it's that boy." My first
inclination is to object and point out all thing things that make him weird.
But I don't, because honestly if anyone is going to make me a believer, I want
it to be Raine.
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Phantom Summer is a YA contemporary romance featuring paranormal elements in the form of ghosts. I love the plot; coming of age, mixed with accepting the past, sprinkled with learning to love again. A very haunted island coupled with ghost tours adds just the right amount of excitement.
Taylor lives with constant, gut-wrenching guilt over her best friend/boyfriend's death. She moves to live with her deadbeat mother on Sterling Island to escape the memories that have haunted her since his death. She meets Raine, who runs the local ghost tour company. Pretty soon she's joining him on his ghost hunts even though she's beyond a skeptic. Taylor is a great character. I fell in love with her from chapter one.
Romantic interest Raine is a rather impressive guy. He took over his father's ghost tour company when he was only thirteen after his father was injured. Taylor doesn't really understand his interest in her since she was always considered a loser in her hometown. She's embarrassed by her mother and their less than stellar accommodations, and shocked when wealthy Raine doesn't seem to care.
My favorite part of the novel was the ghost hunts Raine and Taylor went on together. I wouldn't mind reading more about their ghost tours and ghost hunting. Taylor's thoughts can be quite humorous at times, and her remarks (especially during the ghost tours) tend to be witty.
I recommend Phantom Summer to everyone high school and up that enjoys an engaging plot and endearing characters. This novel is a fast-paced read that's difficult to put down once started.
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About the Author
Amy Sparling is a native Texan with a fear of cold weather
and a coffee addiction that probably needs an intervention. She loves books,
sarcasm, nail polish and paid holidays. She lives near the beach with her
daughter, one spoiled rotten puppy and a cat who is most likely plotting to
take over the world. Amy Sparling is a pen name for YA author Cheyanne Young.Facebook: http://facebook.com/AuthorAmySparling
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Amy_Sparling
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5841781.Amy_Sparling
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