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Shade: 11/18/18
Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready is the start of a series by the same title. Aura can see ghosts and is among an elite group of people who is entrusted with helping ghosts move on. All of this ghost sensing happened after the Shift. Something happened that blurred the lines between the living and the dead. Some now are able to see ghosts and some are not. The wherefore isn't known. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer fashion the main character has to end up with a dead boyfriend. Sure enough by the close of the first chapter, her beloved musician boyfriend has overdosed on some new street drug. Of course then there's a living boy to be the new boyfriend to have the required paranormal love triangle. Long story short, the forced romance in this book drowns out the more interesting story, that of the Shift and how the government is trying to regulate those with the gift, the ghosts and shades now part of life, while protecting those who are unaffected. There are many more books in the series but at this juncture I'm not inclined to continue. Two stars Comments (0)
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