HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Schwab’s YA fantasies are regularly best-sellers, and this has every reason to follow suit. The city of ghosts is more dangerous than she ever imagined. A polished, fast-paced read, sure to be popular. Genuine frights are offset by Cass’ rapport with Jacob, which injects a steady stream of humor into the spirited, mysterious narrative. Readers craving a spooky story that won’t terrorize their dreams will do well with this. Schwab ratchets up the tension when a malevolent ghost targets Cass, putting her life on the line once more. As she and Jacob puzzle through why this might be, they meet another girl who not only has the same ability as Cass but reveals the ability’s purpose. (Victoria) Schwab, the 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, takes readers on three sweeping, evocative. When her parents-paranormal investigators, who, ironically, can’t see Jacob-begin hosting a ghost-hunting TV show, the Blakes travel to Scotland to film in Edinburgh’s most haunted areas, which exercise an alarmingly strong pull on Cass. Schwab's spine-tingling, bestselling City of Ghosts series: City of Ghosts, Tunnel of Bones, and Bridge of Souls Available together for the first time V.E. She can also sense other ghosts and, when she chooses, pull back “the Veil” between the living world and the dead to visit spirits caught in a kind of limbo. A near-death experience leaves Cassidy Blake altered and with a ghost named Jacob for a best friend, their existences somehow entwined.
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