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The ghost who is in love is Ling, a companion ghost to still-living Ben Gould; Ben was slated to die earlier but did not, thus throwing the ghost world into a state of confusion and disconcert. Ling is attached to Ben in order to find out what exactly is happening and why those scheduled to die are not dying as the schedule dictates. In the meantime, Ben is having flashes of another person's life and is suddenly able to communicate with his dog, Pilot. As Ben's recently ex-girlfriend, German, he
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When you're relieved that a book is over, that's a bad sign. I was really hooked at the beginning - the premise was intriguing and the characters promising, and it seemed like my kind of off-beat. A lot of the narrative observations struck a chord, and I was settling in and preparing to really enjoy myself. But then - I'm not sure what happened. The plot got too far fetched, the characters stopped feeling like living, breathing people, and everything felt sacrificed to the premise. I took a brea
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I finally read this, and I think my anticipation of a new Jonathan Carroll novel set me up for *slight* disappointment. Not my favorite, but still good.
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I. AM. SO. HAPPY. RIGHT. NOW. I. CAN'T. WAIT. ...more
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I. AM. SO. HAPPY. RIGHT. NOW. I. CAN'T. WAIT. ...more
Sep 19, 2008
Meg
marked it as to-read
May 30, 2015
Rachel Piper
marked it as maybe-read
