ladygrey
Good book if you're looking for a quick, easy, mildly entertaining read. Well-suited for like an airport read when you don't want to dive into anything that will demand your attention or get you engrossed in the story.
For me, this was an accidental recommendation from someone. I started reading it and seriously questioned their recommending skills when they clarified they'd meant I might be interested in the author (who was a friend of a friend) not that I'd like the book.
I did not like the book.
I didn't hate it.
I didn't DNF it.
But it's full of cliched dialog and simplistic, cliched writing. It's in need of a good editor. The characters are flat and at times erratic. Definitely one note as each character as a single purpose for showing up in any scene and only a single agenda through the story. But none of that bothered me so much as the cliched, informal writing. Despite the ghost aspect, it felt unimaginative (also derivative of at least three other works which I have no idea if the author has read: Twilight, A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Beautiful Creatures - that last one may not be fair since it's mostly because they're both set in the Cajon south - I imagine it's also a lot like Sweet Unrest by Lisa Maxwell, though I haven't read that one also set in a New Orleans plantation setting).
Overall, not a terrible book but not a particularly good one either.