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If you thought you had problems when it comes to love, then get in line. Because the characters in Laura Whitcomb’s A Certain Slant of Light have got it much worse. For starters, she’s a ghost. More like a vapor, or a wisp maybe. As for him, well, he was a ghost and then he stole a body, but hey, he’s not a thief because the previous occupant had already vacated the body. Anyway, he can see her and she can see him. And once he lays human eyes on her and once she lays ghost eyes on him, she knows she’s gonna need a body too. Because you can’t really kiss a ghost or a vapor or a wisp. She finds a body she can take, but oops…Maybe it wasn’t the right body to take since the new girl’s parents are pretty wacko. Anyway, the long and short is A Certain Slant of Light is full of complications, conflict, drama, lust and love. All the makings of a good read. Oh wait, add more thing it’s full of — ghosts! Which makes it a winner for me.

I have a big thing for ghost love stories. I think it’s the inherent impossibility of the relationship. Right? I mean a human and a ghost can’t really be together in meaningful way. In Lisa Schroeder’s young adult novel I Heart You, You Haunt Me, Ava is haunted by the notion that she was responsible for her boyfriend’s death, then she’s haunted by him. He appears in mirrors, turns on music, and even tosses her panties around. But she can’t see him, can’t touch, can’t feel him, she can’t even hear him. She loves that he’s near and that a part of him hasn’t gone to the grave because she’s still desperately in love with him. But alas, loving a ghost isn’t easy. But reading this novel is. It’s written in verse, is wonderfully short, and can be read and savored all in a day.