Myra McEntire's Hourglass
So Emerson is a teenage girl who can see ghosts of the past, and also her parents are dead and she is generally troubled. Her brother hires a dude to help her, and of course he's affiliated w/ a mysterious organization, and of course he's also a hot young guy to be her love interest. Just once I'd like a book about a girl coming into her powers with like the help of her friends (a la Buffy) and not dependent on some dude she's all twitterpated about. Especially since Emerson's best friend is a really interesting and underused character. Now, from all this, things go in a way you might not expect, though at a certain point I realized where it was going was just as stupid as the usual YA paranormal romance cliches. It's all just underwritten, the motivation for all the characters' action is really weak, and the twists McEntire throws in are just silly. I was really disappointed here--the first quarter had a lot of promise and then things just got . . . not great. B-.
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