Darcie Little Badger's Elatsoe
Well, this was awesome in every way. Our main character is teenage Ellie, a Lipan Apache girl whose family knows the secret to raise ghosts (except they don’t raise human ghosts, only animal ghosts, which means Ellie has a GHOST SPRINGER SPANIEL!!!) (she’s also asexual but that’s not relevant to the plot). When her cousin dies in an accident, but he appears in a dream to tell her he was murdered, she and her best friend (and her mom and other people) have to figure out how to prove it, and also what is up with this weird town where the murderer lives? I thought the magic in the book was really cool, there are just all these different magical systems (and vampires!) but it’s all just presented as matter of fact with no lengthy exposition. And all the characters are great, all the ghosts are great, all the family stories and legends are GREAT, everything about this was great. The author has another book due out this fall I think and I can’t wait to read it. A.
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