Certain Slant of Light

by Laura Whitcomb

• ISBN10: 0756963915
• ISBN13: 9780756963910
• Publish Date: 1 September 2005 (first published 1 January 2005)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 5 April 2022
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Perfection Learning
• Format: Hardcover (Library Binding)
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[elysium]

Helen has been a ghost for 130 years and to live relatively normal life, she attach herself to humans. Her current host is a teacher and one day at a class she meets a boy who can see her. The boy, James, is a spirit who took over a body when it was empty. After learning that taking over a body is possible, she takes over Jenny’s body.

Okay I have to say that I didn’t like this. At all. I had problems with the writing style which was too descriptive and it felt way too overworked.

His body didn’t die,” he said, still fascinated by his own luck. “His spirit chose to leave. It’s difficult to explain. Instead of the ship going down taking the crew with it, the crew abandoned the ship, but the ship was still seaworthy.
pg. 24

You would think that when you choose a body who you want to possess, you’d learn about the persons life a little. Like who’s the parents, are they alive you know important stuff? But no, you jump in to just a random person because that makes sense.

I was already bored and kept laughing out loud at some idiotic parts but when we meet Jenny’s family I nearly threw the book. They were some uber Christian family and we get to read about many prayers they had, the books she was supposed to read…. Nearly nodded off by then.

I just couldn’t make myself to care what happened with the characters and did not enjoy the book at all.

[Eve1972]

I enjoyed this one quite a bit! It is a pretty fast read with interesting characters and a great story.