rachel's Reviews > The Ghost Notebooks

I was glued to this book while I was reading it, and could not wait to get back to it when I was not reading it. But, looking back after finishing, I think you as a reader need to be fully invested in Nick and Hannah's relationship as a Great Love in order to love the book, and I wasn't quite there.

Don't get me wrong: I loved the fact that their relationship is messy and we see second thoughts about spending forever together. That felt real, something that young couples who are serious about each other actually go through before deciding to tie the knot. But I also don't know if we see enough of their sustained good times before Hannah's disappearance.

Also: (view spoiler)[maybe this is silly, but I was expecting to find in the Ghost Notebooks some kind of future that Hannah was afraid to have, lending more justification to her suicide. But it was all fairly mundane stuff. (hide spoiler)]

On a superficial note, the design of this book is excellent. It's a little more elongated than most books (to seem more like a notebook/journal?) and the cover art is perfect for its content and mood. I love the sort of retro designs and fonts we are starting to see on new books, and being a sucker, it will always catch my eye. Hint hint, publishers...take my $!