Ghost Flower

by Michele Jaffe

'I am an imposter. A fake. A fraud. But everything that follows is the truth and nothing but the truth. I have no reason to lie anymore.'

Eve has been living hand-to-mouth, trying to forget old scars from her foster homes and to avoid getting any new ones from her sleazy boss. So when she's offered a way out - $100,000 to pretend to be somebody she's not - she knows she'd be a fool not to take it.

But it soon becomes clear that her life will be at risk unless she can work out exactly what happened to the girl she's been asked to impersonate. Trapped in a web of lies and deceit, Eve is desperate to learn the truth, even if it means facing up to a past filled with murderous secrets.

• ISBN10: 1907411089
• ISBN13: 9781907411083
• Publish Date: 12 April 2012 (first published 1 April 2012)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: ATOM
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 336
• Language: English

Reviews

[celinenyx]

Ghost Flower has a lot going on. We have a girl impersonating another girl, a brother and sister up to no good, a dysfunctional rich family, and a ghost leaving cryptic messages. This mash up of contemporary, thriller, and paranormal worked really well, and resulted in a fast-paced intriguing story-line.

Now, I've had this problem so many times I hardly blame a book for it any more, but I kinda already knew how the fork sat in the handle, as we say in the Netherlands. Solving the big mystery of a book before the big revelation sucks, because it takes away a lot of steam in the story. Now it wasn't too bad, because I hadn't figured out everything, but I did for about eighty percent.

What I liked best about Ghost Flower were the familial relationships and the way Eve interacted with all Aurora's old friends. There is this constant getting to know each other/trying to figure out what someone's ulterior motives are thing going on that was really interesting.