"Apakah Tuhan menjalankan saluran belanja via telepon? Pikir Charlotte"

Charlotte dan teman-temannya telah lulus Kelas Pendidikan Kematian. Namun alih-alih menuju surga, mereka malah harus menangani hotline bagi remaja bermasalah. Sekali lagi Charlotte harus menghadapi kenyataan yang tidak menyenangkan. Semua temannya sibuk menerima telepon, hanya dirinya yang tidak menerima telepon! Bukan hanya itu, seluruh temannya mendapat hadiah kelulusan berupa pertemuan dengan orang yang dikenal dan dikagum More...

This is one of those "horror lite" books - Charlotte has graduated from Dead Ed. and is stuck in customer service (which consists of waiting for Those in Need to call in for help, at which point she's supposed to act as that small, still voice that gives them good advice). She's living with Maddy, who appears to be one of those controlling friends that doesn't want Charlotte's old friends to be a part of her life; those old friends have reunited with people from their pasts and seem to be settli More...

Gostei mais deste do que do primeiro, é mais profundo mas com o mesmo toque de humor :)
Depois da graduação, Charlotte e outros fantasmas recebem a notícia que terão de fazer um estágio onde terão de responder a telefonemas de adolescentes que tem problemas dando conselhos. Mas antes de começarem todos recebem prendas devido à sua graduação infelizmente Charlotte não recebe nada dos seus pais e é a única que não recebe telefonemas. Mas a chegada de uma nova personagem Maddy irá trazer muitas aven More...

I got the ARC of this book and I wanted to see what happened, seeing how the last one ended. I was so surprised at the turn this book took! First off, it's much better than the first one and I really liked the first one. This one is much deeper, but still has that hysterical wit and can stand on it's own. The author upped her game even more here. this is what good writing is all about. I can't wait to get the finished book this summer. this is definitely THE book for summer reading. LOVE IT!!!!! More...

Para ser sincera esperaba que Ghostgirl fuera de esos libros únicos que hoy en día escasean, pero me llevé una sorpresa al encontrarme con su continuación, fue grata ya que el final del primer libro fue abierto y daba mucho que imaginar. Ghostgirl, el regreso fue toda una odisea, no pude empezar a leérmelo hasta cerca de tres meses después de comprarlo y aún así se me hizo eterno, la actitud de Charlotte a cambiado, es más madura y astuta pero sigue pareciéndome una chica algo patética y autodes More...

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Where back in the afterlife with Charlotte, and things don't look so good. After graduation Charlotte seems to be all alright with herself, who she is, and where she is heading. Thing is after the glamour goes off, she is back where she started, being invisible. All her friends are busy with afterlife phonecalls, and reunions, to even glance at her. This doesn't bother her so much, that is until her new friend Maddy come's into the picture.

Maddy likes t More...

I can envision Ms. Hurley as a very likeable Goth. She's fun, quirky and an all-around sarcasm-user, that's for sure. Wtih Charlotte and her friends, Hurley creates a world of life and death that is humorous, loving, and not at all macabre. Although I would have enjoyed the occasional Poe-style horror.

Sometimes, though, the way Hurley writes just rubs me the wrong way. Several times through out the book, I had to keep reminding myself that it wasn't Hurley's thoughts resonating through the words More...

Charlotte has moved on, literally, however the afterlife holds no pearly gates, winged harps or angels flying about. The after life for Charlotte is anything but eternal rest and peace, it is a small cubical and a phone, which is bad enough except that this phone never rings.

Scarlet has put up with a lot from her sister over the years, although Petula has put up with her fair share too, after all Scarlet is now with Petula's ex-boyfriend. But when it comes down to it Scarlet is willing to do alm More...

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"'We're all alone in death...and some of us after,'..."

In Ghostgirl, Hurley wrote a different and beautiful story about a girl named Charlotte Usher who yearned to be popular. After talking to the guy of her dreams, though, she choked on a gummy bear and died.

In Ghostgirl: Homecoming, the second book in the series, Hurley wrote another astonishing world of the Dead. If in Ghostgirl there was Dead Ed (the high school of the dead), in Ghostgirl: Homecoming, there' More...

The supposed “twist” near the end reminded me of Scooby Doo. While this book was slightly better than the first, it’s almost as if Hurley can’t figure out what kind of author she’d like to be, what kind of books she’d like to write. Her writing style and characters have changed so much, the first book is only needed for background info on the characters.

It’s more like her writing shouldn’t be published, so much as exist in a High School English class. The ending in this one is almost more clich More...

Charlotte may have graduated Dead Ed but that's not the end of her story. Life, for Charlotte, was one bitter disappointment after another. And it seems death isn't going to be much different. Convinced that graduating Dead Ed was her route to the afterlife Charlotte is a little surprised to find she has to complete an internship! Answering the phones at a help centre for troubled teens isn't proving brilliantly exciting. Until Scarlet calls: a pedicure-gone-hideously-wrong has landed Petula in More...

Kalau tidak membaca buku 1-nya, kayaknya akan agak bingung, aku aja agak bingung sampai sekitar beberapa bab. Charlotte masih berusaha menyesuaikan diri di alam sana sesudah meninggal: bekerja menerima telpon untuk membantu penyelesaian masalah remaja bermasalah. Atau tepatnya tidak menerima telpon, kalau kita ngomongin tentang Charlotte, yang sendirian di masa hidupnya, dan kembali sendirian sesudah kematiannya.
Seperti buku 1, dunia baru terasa cerah begitu drama dalam buku Ghostgirl ini dimasu More...

At the end of the first book I wondered if their was going to be a sequel and a few months latter I happily learned that their was another book coming out, the plot centers around the all important high school event of Homecoming, turns out Petulia had flunked her senior year in order to try to win Homecoming queen this year, her now senior year sister Scarlet is having a long distance relationship with college age Damen, both are ripped into a situation when Petulia mystreiously enters a coma, More...

Charlotte Usher is having the same kind of luck in the afterlife as she had when she was alive--no one will pay any attention to her! Her Dead Ed friends are so wrapped up in their reunions with dead family members and their internship activities they seem to stop noticing Charlotte. That's a familiar place for Charlotte, who died trying to become popular. She ends up hanging around with Maddy, another loner who actually seems to be nurturing Charlotte's insecurities. Then Charlotte's best frien More...

Charlotte is settling into the afterlife after the events of Ghostgirl, where she choked to death on a gummy bear. She ended up sharing a body with Scarlett, the goth younger sister of the most popular girl in school. She and Scarlett became very good friends, but Charlotte had to move on. Now, she must spend most of her days answering the phones at a hotline for troubled teens. Basically, she gets to be teens internal voice or conscience as they deal with the challenges of life.

Unfortunately, t More...

WARNING:THIS WHOLE REVIEW HAS SPOILERS

Okay so I considerably liked the second book in the trilogy more then the first one. Why? Charlotte was smart in this one not crazy!

Scarlet's sister Petula is hospitalized. This is due to an infection she got at the nail salon when they nicked her big toe. Scarlet decides that the only way she can help Petula is to get help from Charlotte.

In the "waiting room" Petula was put in when she was in her suspended-life-coma-almost-dead-situation she meets a littl More...

Homecoming is similarly laid out as the first book, but with slightly different borders, and pink was replaced by the color purple. The illustrations inside do not form some chains but are separate.

At the end of book one, it seems as though Charlotte's afterlife is looking up. After graduating Dead Ed with her classmates, she thought moving on was the final stage of their journey to a better place. Instead, she found themselves at a phone bank- to act as the little voice inside the heads of trou More...

This is the sequel to Ghostgirl. In the original, Charlotte Usher died at the tender age of 17 from choking on a Gummi Bear. After struggling to save herself, her DeadEd classmates and an old home from destruction, Charlotte is disagreeably surprised to find that her afterlife chores aren’t finished. Wittily matching the angst-ridden, adolescent tone of the former novel, the reader is brought along on yet another step in Charlotte’s postmortem growth as she’s forced to do without her friends and More...

Attention goths, gouls, and undead cheerleader wannabes - the much-anticipated sequel to ghostgirl is now available! In the follow-up to Tonya Hurley's best-selling debut, Charlotte Usher is struggling with her new un-life. After passing "Dead Ed," she and her classmates are assigned to a phoneback, acting as a heavenly conscience for troubled teens. But her phone never seems to ring, her friends seem to be ingnoring her, and her new room mate, Maddy, is strange at best. Most of all, she misses More...

Charlotte Usher finds out that 'graduating' in the afterlife isn't what it's cracked up to be. She ends up in a phone room, waiting for a teen to call for help. Except no one calls.

Then tragedy hits Hawthorne High's most popular girl Petula. Her sister Scarlet, tries to help. Charlotte is the answer. But will Scarlet be able to get to her in time to save both of them?

This is the sequel to GHOSTGIRL. This fast-paced novel kept me turning the pages wanting to see what Scarlet's answer to helping h More...

Suis toujours sous l'admiration de l'emballage du bouquin, et de tous ces petits trucs décoratifs qui tentent de rendre le livre plus attrayant, on connaît la recette. Le retour de Charlotte Usher se place sous le signe de l'insolite. Avant de décrocher son diplôme, il lui faut suivre un stage qui consiste à répondre aux appels des ados en détresse. Sauf qu'elle ne reçoit aucun coup de fil ! De son côté, Scarlet, sa meilleure amie, remet en question sa relation amoureuse avec Damen au moment où More...

I really enjoyed these books. They took a typical high school popularity story and adding a Gothic twist. The School Library Journal review on the back of the books says they're reminiscent of Tim Burton, and I somewhat agree. But I don't think the books are so heavy on the dark Gothic side that readers who aren't usually drawn to that couldn't enjoy them. Mostly, they're a fun satirical look at high school and popularity.
Ghostgirl actually took me awhile to get into, but once the story got go More...

Jujur saja, saya membeli buku ini hanya karena sudah punya buku pertamanya.
I don't really understand what happened in the book. Just don;t really get it.

So, setelah selesai dengan misi pertamanya di buku sebelum ini, Charlotte ternyata harus bekerja sebagai semacam konsultan via telpon gitu. Semacam hotline untuk remaja bermasalah. Sementara di dunia, Petula ternyata menghadapi kematian, karena pedikurnya ternyata menyebabkan dia terkena infeksi. And there is something about being a Homecoming Q More...

Two words to describe this book: SUPERFICIAL and BORING.

Okay, I'm not usually a bitch to books. I generally favor what I read, regardless if the heroine is stupid or the plot is senseless as long as i get enjoyment from guilty pleasures and books i forced myself to read. In other words, I AM mostly nice even if i insult the main characters.

Sadly, this book failed to captured my attention AND my respect.

*shakes head* now where do i start. The amount of FAIL that this book gets from me is IMMENSE. More...

This was awful. I could not even finish it. The first was okay-at least it had SOME plot line-it kept me reading to find out if she got the guy (she didn't). The interesting cover is not enough to keep me reading, and really, the cover is the only thing this book has going for it. I hate the feeling of forcing myself to read something and since I had to do that here-I quit. The writing and story was juvenile, even if some of the topics were not. 50 pages in I am left wondering where this was goi More...

Vuelve Charlotte con más aventuras. También lo hacen su amiga Scarlet y la hermana de ésta, Petula. Pero el lugar es diferente.


Charlotte se encuentra ante una no-vida demasiado rutinaria y no termina de acostumbrarse a ella. Scarlet y Petula siguen con sus vidas en el instituto y Damen se encuentra algo distanciado de ellas. Todo parece muy normal hasta que un tonto accidente hace que Scarlet vuelva a necesitar la ayuda de Charlotte. Ésta que ha sido ignorada por sus amigas, decide ayudarla. Pe More...

Pretty sure Im not the only one who's tired of stereotypical, self-absorbed, shallow teen characters, right? (I already have to deal with such people on a daily basis, unfortunately) Homecoming has a lot of those characters.


... or it may seem like it.

Well maybe some will never change. But Tonya Hurley dealt with all of them ingeniusly. Things-- or people -- are never what they seem. The plot, twists, and character development were good. I still like the first book better, but this was good n More...