Sunday, July 4, 2021

The Forever Summer by Suzanne Macpherson

Rating: WARTY!

"Lila Abbott has a peculiar talent - she's able to solve dead people's problems!...A captivating and humorous paranormal read." That's the humor part right there. What problems, exactly, do dead people have? I guess - as is typical with this sort of a story - dead people are exactly like living people except they're not alive. How cluelessly boring and unapologetically unimaginative can you get? Macpherson will demonstrate that admirably, I'm sure. The plot continues: "When Lucas Griffin approaches her to help clear his name from the death of his ex-wife, Lila turns to Emily Ruth's ghost, who won't stop haunting her former husband..." So she asks the ghost who killed her and the ghost tells all, case solved. No mystery here. No humor either. Unless you consider the deceased to be a source of amusement.