Source: preordered purchase. This is a review of my reading experience.
Ophie's Ghosts is a middle grade horror/mystery by Justina Ireland.
The New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation makes her middle grade debut with a sweeping tale of the ghosts of our past that won't stay buried, starring an unforgettable girl named Ophie.
Ophelia Harrison used to live in a small house in the Georgia countryside. But that was before the night in November 1922, and the cruel act that took her home and her father from her. Which was the same night that Ophie learned she can see ghosts.
Now Ophie and her mother are living in Pittsburgh with relatives they barely know. In the hopes of earning enough money to get their own place, Mama has gotten Ophie a job as a maid in the same old manor house where she works.
Daffodil Manor, like the wealthy Caruthers family who owns it, is haunted by memories and prejudices of the past--and, as Ophie discovers, ghosts as well. Ghosts who have their own loves and hatreds and desires, ghosts who have wronged others and ghosts who have themselves been wronged. And as Ophie forms a friendship with one spirit whose life ended suddenly and unjustly, she wonders if she might be able to help--even as she comes to realize that Daffodil Manor may hold more secrets than she bargained for.
Yes! Ophie's Ghosts is an Odd Thomas type of book for kids!
The
night Ophie's father is killed is the first night Ophelia Harrison sees
ghosts. Her father wakes her to insist she and her mother hide just
before their home is burned down. Ophie and her mother then move to
Pittsburgh to work in Daffodil Manor.
Ophie
can see and communicate with spirits. Her relatives warn her against
communicating with haints, but she wants to help the ghosts around her.
I
really like Justina Ireland's writing. I enjoyed her YA duology Dread Nation and Deathless Divide, and I was excited she wrote a middle grade
novel. I was not disappointed!
I loved Ophie, and I would love to read more Ophie books in the future.
⭐⭐⭐⭐★
4/5 stars
Talking to ghosts would be interesting.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely :)
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