{Review} {Giveaway} Ashes to Ashes @melissacwalker @harperteen

If I Stay meets the movie Ghost in this first book in a teen duology about a teenage-girl-turned-ghost who must cling to the echoes of her former life to save the people she left behind.

Ashes to Ashes is author Melissa Walker's sweeping, romantic, and emotionally rich story about the things that torment and tempt us, even from the Great Beyond. This book is perfect for fans of Die for Me andImaginary Girls, and its breathtaking ending will leave readers anxiously awaiting the series conclusion, Dust to Dust.

When Callie's life is cut short by a tragic accident, she expects to find nothingness, or maybe some version of heaven.

Instead, her spirit travels to the Prism, an ethereal plane populated by the ghosts she thought were fictional. Here she meets a striking and mysterious ghost named Thatcher, who is meant to guide her as she learns to haunt and bring peace to the loved ones she left behind.

However, Callie uncovers a dark secret about the spirit world: The angry souls who always populate ghost stories are real, dangerous, and willing to do whatever it takes to stay on Earth, threatening the existence of everyone she ever cared about.

As she fights to save them, Callie will learn that while it may no longer beat, her heart can still love-and break

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Biography

I'm a writer and editor (my favorite staff jobs: ELLEgirl Features Editor and Seventeen Prom Editor). All in the name of journalism, I have spent 24 hours with male models and attended an elite finishing school for girls in New Zealand, among other hardships.

My real-girl-meets-the-fashion-world series -- Violet on the Runway, Violet by Design and Violet in Private -- is out now.

Lovestruck Summer -- a teen romance set in Austin, TX -- is out now.

Small Town Sinners -- the story of a girl growing up in an evangelical town who wants to star in her church's Hell House -- is out now.

Unbreak My Heart -- a dual love story about the year that broke Clementine's heart and the summer that healed it -- is out in now.

2 STAR
I was so happy to get this book.  I loved the cover and the synopsis, but when I started to read the story it kind of started to fall apart.  This book is about 100 pages to long and is predictable. The world building of how ghosts live before they move on was interesting but the execution of the story was a fail.  I loved the world of Prism and think that the author could have done an amazing job writing more of that.  I was reading this one with a friend and around 30% in we both figured out where the book was going. We ended up skimming the rest and found out that we were right.  This book had no real bad guys and a half done paranormal plot.  A luke warm love story and a really bad love triangle.  I really didn't care about the characters and the heroine Callie who was supposed to be head over heels about her boyfriend but, as soon as she dies and the ghost guardian comes in she only has eyes for him. Which made me kind of hate Callie. 

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

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