Title: Queen of the Dead
Author: Stacey Kade
Published May 31st 2011 by Hyperion Book CH
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Okay so where we left off in The Ghost and The Goth
everything was doing great, Alona and Will were in a good (if not romantic)
relationship and I was having so much fun :D
Queen of the dead starts with a bang, Will and Alona
go ghost hunting, there’s some making out in the first chapter and let’s face it I’m all up for that, so I
was ecstatic. But then there was trouble in paradise, because if you recall,
Will was supposedly the only ghost-talker in town…
that is until Mina Blackwell, with her tough attitude (and look), first appears and safes Will’s life by kicking major ghost ass.
So you can imagine Will was kind of starstruck, he has
never seen another ghost-talker, much less a hot chick with the kind of
technology that can trap ghosts in pieces for all eternity. You can also
imagine Alona is less than thrilled, I mean is not only that she is jealous
(which she is) is also that hello?! Mina is traping ghosts, and Alona is a
ghost!
And a bit of a battle unfolds inside of Will, what is
he supposed to believe? That helping the ghosts is his purpose- like Alona
said. Or that helping the living, not caring about what ghosts want?- like Mina
thinks. This would be much easier if only someone could give him the correct
answers. Making matters worse, Alona wants to communicate with her parents to
make sure they remember her and keep mourning her, Will refuses to spoil
Alona’s parents current happiness ; So Will and Alona get into a huge fight
over all of this, and Alona runs away.
I will have to spoil it, becausethere’s no other way I
can provide a coherent review if I don’t say this, so close your ears
eyes if you don’t want the book spoiled…
Right now would be a good time to do it…
You’re warned…
Alona, in her stubbornness, cannot stop at anything to
get what she wants, so she accidentally, ends inside the body of a comatose girl, Lily, who also happen to be one
of Will’s old friends. While all of this is happening, Will is trying to find
information about what is exactly he’s supposed to do as a ghost-talker with an
organization called The Order, whose Mina’s father himself is running, and
Will’s dad used to be the boss of (until he killed himself), so forgive Will if
he’s trying to find some anwers.
Things get out of control when Will finds out what
Alona has done, he’s really pissed and Alona is really freaking out, so they
get into fight again.
But before any of them can catch a breath, The Order has found out about Alona inhabiting a living person’s body, and
they don’t like it. So now, Will has to forgive and forget, and fast because Alona is in danger of
being gone, forever.
You know, I liked this book, not as much as the first
one, but it was entertaining and action-packed so I can’t complain. The thing
is, things took at unexpected turn (at least for me) and I didn’t like that
turn at all. Because hello? Alona in Lily’s body is just
wrong, and I want to thing to go back to the way they were.
Also, I thought the there’s other ghost-busters out there card would be played in more
than one hand, if you know what I mean. They were a great addition to the
story, and even the possibility of a love triangle was starting to grow on me,
but none of that happen at all, it was blink
and you missed it fast and suddenly it was all about body interchange,
which like I said, I didn’t like at all, so let’s see what happens at the final
book. *fingers crossed*
Audrey Whitticomb has nothing to fear. Her mother is the superhero Morning Star, the most deadly crime-fighter in the Twin Cities, so it’s hard for Audrey not to feel safe. That is, until she’s lured into the sweet night air by something human and not human—something with talons and teeth, and a wide, scarlet smile.
