Thursday, May 6, 2010

Spooky Little Girl by Laurie Notaro

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Title: Spooky Little Girl
Author: Laurie Notaro
Publisher: Villard (Random House)
Genre: Contemporary Fiction bordering on Sci-fi Paranormal'ish
Pages:304 (trade paperback)
On Sale: April 13, 2010

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Synopsis
Coming home from a Hawaiian vacation with her best girlfriends, Lucy Fisher is stunned to find everything she owns tossed out on her front lawn, the locks changed, and her fiancĂ©’s phone disconnected—plus she’s just lost her job. With her world spinning wildly out of her control, Lucy decides to make a new start and moves upstate to live with her sister and nephew.

But then things take an even more dramatic turn: A fatal encounter with public transportation lands Lucy not in the hereafter but in the nearly hereafter. She’s back in school, learning the parameters of spooking and how to become a successful spirit in order to complete a ghostly assignment. If Lucy succeeds, she’s guaranteed a spot in the next level of the afterlife—but until then, she’s stuck as a ghost in the last place she would ever want to be.

I managed to snag my copy of this book through the GoodReads FirstReads giveaway and it sure was a lucky win for me! I loved this book and plan on reading more from Laurie Notaro in the future. Well written with a unique story line this offbeat book kept me guessing. Filled with twists, turns and enough mystery to keep me guessing I had a hard time setting this one aside; one really late night was all it took to read it....Of course after I finished I ended up laying awake thinking about it.

1 comment:

Chris said...

Ok, this sounds like a really intriguing and bizarre read!