A story about young love, first love, true love, timeless love, and the power of love letters.
Mark and Bethany are two mismatched high school seniors in a new relationship.
It’s doomed to fail.
Mark has adored Bethany since middle school, and she’s finally giving him a chance. Only, he’s clumsy at romance and knows he’ll lose her because of it. Bethany thinks Mark is sweet. Only, she’s afraid to commit her whole heart to him because he’s going into the army and she’s headed off to college.
Fifty years earlier, a boy and a girl from the same high school shared an amazing but tragic love story. They have now returned as ghosts and are interfering in Mark and Bethany’s relationship.
Who are they? Why do they care what happens to Mark and Bethany?
REVIEW
***(3) out of 5 stars!
This was a sweet, if fairly predictable story. It is broken up into three main sections, each of which themselves have some rather definite divisions. Overall, the feeling of the book itself was a rather disjointed hodge-podge of random stories thrown together.
Mark and Bethany are both good kids and they have a darling relationship. However, they both certainly have their issues, and they probably wouldn't have ended up together, at least not for very long, if it weren't for the intervention of some outside forces.
It was obvious right from the beginning who at least one of the old-time ghosts was. The other has a somewhat different agenda and for various reasons is harder to decipher right away. I found this character somewhat hard to believe in her ghost persona, mainly because the real-life person seemed to be much nicer and forgiving.
One of the two love stories ends in catastrophe, which we know just about from the very beginning, due to various events in the intervening time period. The other, for a host of different reasons, has a near-end that, while not as tragic, hit me nearly as hard and was incredibly sad. Eventually, that situation is somewhat salvaged, but an awful lot is lost along the way.
Overall, this is a love story and a mild ghost story, meshed together into a tale that somewhat resembles a coherent narrative. The writing itself was good; the words flowed together very well. But there were often times that dragged excessively, and also the different parts of the story didn't seem to jive too well. It took me a long time to plow my way through this tale. There were a number of things that seemed as though they were going to be important to the story, and then just weren't. The overall tale was a good one, but I just think it could have been better executed.
I received a free eBook copy of this title from NetGalley,
and have willingly provided an honest review.
***(3) out of 5 stars!
Mark and Bethany are both good kids and they have a darling relationship. However, they both certainly have their issues, and they probably wouldn't have ended up together, at least not for very long, if it weren't for the intervention of some outside forces.
It was obvious right from the beginning who at least one of the old-time ghosts was. The other has a somewhat different agenda and for various reasons is harder to decipher right away. I found this character somewhat hard to believe in her ghost persona, mainly because the real-life person seemed to be much nicer and forgiving.
One of the two love stories ends in catastrophe, which we know just about from the very beginning, due to various events in the intervening time period. The other, for a host of different reasons, has a near-end that, while not as tragic, hit me nearly as hard and was incredibly sad. Eventually, that situation is somewhat salvaged, but an awful lot is lost along the way.
Overall, this is a love story and a mild ghost story, meshed together into a tale that somewhat resembles a coherent narrative. The writing itself was good; the words flowed together very well. But there were often times that dragged excessively, and also the different parts of the story didn't seem to jive too well. It took me a long time to plow my way through this tale. There were a number of things that seemed as though they were going to be important to the story, and then just weren't. The overall tale was a good one, but I just think it could have been better executed.
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