Orion
375 pages
This book set in contemporary London, revolves around Lucy Brown who dies in a freak accident the night before her wedding. Distraught at leaving her finance Dan, she is given 2 options while in Limbo. She can either go straight on to Heaven and leave Dan or remain behind, accomplish an assigned task and become a ghost and stay with Dan forever. She chooses the latter and joins the House of Wannabe Ghosts where the 2 other 'dead' residents are the angry Goth girl, Claire and the smelly, trainspotter, Brian. Lucy's task is to find love for someone. But there are two pressing problems: she only has 21 days to do it and she's distracted by the fact that one of her supposed best friends, Anna, is getting ready to go in for the kill in regards to Lucy's fiancee, the heartbroken Dan.
The book is a funny, breezy read and I really admire Taylor's imagination regarding the undead and limbo. Her characters are so likeable that before you know it, you'll find yourself caring not only what happens to Lucy but to Claire and Brian as well. The ending was a shock but in a completely satisfying way.
3.5/5
I loved this, Michele - I do like a book that can suspend belief in the modern world. great imagination, I even remember reading pieces of this years ago on Write Words before Cally got so famous!
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